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Subject: Perl 6 Microgrants. Now accepting proposals.</span></font>
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:04:29 -0400</span></font>
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I'm pleased to announce the inaugural Perl 6 Microgrants program.  </span></font>
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Best Practical Solutions (my company) has donated USD5,000 to The  </span></font>
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Perl Foundation to help support Perl 6 Development.  Leon Brocard,  </span></font>
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me to select proposals and evaluate project success.  We'll be making  </span></font>
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USD500 grants to worthy Perl 6 related efforts. We're hoping to fund  </span></font>
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program.  Accepted grants might be for coding, documentation, testing  </span></font>
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one implementation of Perl 6 -- We're interested in seeing proposals  </span></font>
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related to Pugs, Perl 6 on Parrot, Perl 6 on Perl 5 or any other Perl  </span></font>
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Submitting a grant proposal</span></font>
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To submit a grant proposal, please email us at perl6- </span></font>
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* A two to three paragraph summary of the work you intend to do</span></font>
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* A brief description of what "success" will mean for your project -  </span></font>
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We'll be accepting proposals on a rolling schedule. We expect to pay  </span></font>
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how things go, we'll then either find more money for more grant  </span></font>
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programs or we'll wind up the program and move on to other endeavors.</span></font>
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We're really excited to get rolling. Submit your proposals early and  </span></font>
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often. Don't let somebody else beat you to the punch ;)</span></font>
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