How Sponsorship can help the Perl Foundation
Perl is part of the technology stack running many of today’s businesses. Our donors and sponsors use Perl and Raku to power their businesses. That’s one reason they contribute back to our community. But there is so much more that sponsorship can bring to the community.
- Conferences: TPF has historically held annual conferences that bring together the Perl and Raku community from around the world. Speakers give technical talks, and the community gets together to discuss our approaches to solving the latest technical problems. In 2020, as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, TPF held its first virtual international conference - Conference in the Cloud. This was deemed a great success and the concept will be considered for future annual events, subject to the public health circumstances.
- Grants: The Perl Foundation provides funding directly in support of projects that benefit Perl and Raku users. Our traditional grants program provides a means for developers to create free and open-source software and libraries built on top of Perl or Raku. Meanwhile, the Perl 5 Core Grants allow for top developers to focus on specific needs of the language itself.
- Training: The Perl Foundation will take new steps to reach out to the community, training new programmers in Perl. The Perl Foundation will create an online beginner video training course and provide beginner training scholarships.
- Outreachy: This internship program supports diversity in free and open source software. The Perl Foundation sponsors this both financially and by providing the interns with a mentor.
- Jobs: we provide a job posting website where employers can share information about their open positions;
- CPAN and MetaCPAN: we support the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network and the more advanced MetaCPAN, with its library of thousands of open source software modules.
- Community: The Perl Foundation hosts events across the world to encourage the formation of new local groups as well as re-invigorate existing groups. They will also host the very first Perl Community Summit, an event specifically for issues related to the Perl Community.
- Marketing: Reaching out beyond the Perl and Raku community is a very important function of The Perl Foundation. Through online efforts and open-source conferences, TPF will continue to advocate Perl and Raku to the world.
Give to The Perl Foundation
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- Bank check. Please mail to:
Yet Another Society
d/b/a The Perl Foundation
340 S Lemon Ave #6055
Walnut, CA 91789 - Wire Transfer (contact Treasurer@PerlFoundation.Org for assistance)
- Employer paycheck deductions: If your employer uses Benevity for charitable giving (Google, Microsoft, and hundreds of other businesses use Benevity), then you can opt to have donations (and possibly employer-matches) made to TPF directly through your paycheck. Our cause profile may be found here. Apple has a similar program, which we also participate in.
You an also help The Perl Foundation (aka Yet Another Society) whenever you purchase something on Amazon:
If you require an invoice for your donation, please contact Treasurer@PerlFoundation.Org.
Thank you for supporting The Perl Foundation!
If you require an invoice for your donation, please contact Treasurer@PerlFoundation.Org.
Thank you for supporting The Perl Foundation!