On day 19 of The Perl Advent Calendar Philippe Bruhat introduces The Underbar, a podcast recording conversations and stories from the Perl community to preserve its history.
On day 14 of The Perl Advent Calendar Chris Prather continues yesterday's story, revealing how Santa's team used Critical Chain project management alongside No Estimates to identify dependencies and ship NaughtyNice 3.0 on schedule.
On day 13 of The Perl Advent Calendar Chris Prather tells how Santa's workshop rebuilt their NaughtyNice system in 24 days using "No Estimates"—breaking work into daily slices and measuring throughput instead of guessing timelines.
On day 12 of The Perl Advent Calendar Sawyer X shows us how Melian, a high-speed in-memory caching server, reduces database query times from milliseconds to microseconds by loading tables into memory.
On day 11 of The Perl Advent Calendar D Ruth Holloway demonstrates how to generate Mondrian-style abstract art paintings using Perl with Moo, Imager, and SVG modules.
This is 100% correct. My current strategy is to locate 10-15 sponsors at 10k per year so that we can secure the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Donors can, of course, always commit to more.
For anyone who may have a contact, I'm quite happy to be CCed on introductory emails or I can send you a message that you can forward on to decision makers, if you feel that's a lower pressure scenario. Both of these approaches have worked out for us. There is more than one way to do it.
:) Working on the fundraising has been a fun and challenging project. Perl is still quite useful and it's often somewhere in the stack, even if organizations don't openly talk about it. Finding these orgs is part of the fun.
