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chromatic
Date:
July 7, 2010 09:19
Subject:
Re: Directions of perl 5 development - requests from companies
Message ID:
201007070919.19170.chromatic@wgz.org
On Wednesday 07 July 2010 at 03:59, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> > 1) give some money to TPF that might later be used somehow.

> But probably won't.
 
> TPF doesn't structure its grants programmes as "invitations to tender" for
> specific tasks. booking.com's donation sat unused for 14 months. A significant
> chunk of NLNet's grant for Parrot work sat unused for a couple of years, 
> IIRC.

The Parrot grant money sat *ungranted* for a while as no one had completed the 
relevant milestones.  I consider that specific grant from NLNet effective from 
the grantor side even as the grantee descended briefly into a degree of 
organizational confusion.

-- c
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