[Charlotte.PM] Fwd: [Raleigh-pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Fwd: Perl 6 Microgrants. Now accepting proposals.

[William McKee]

A bit of Perl 6 news for the week....

> ----- Forwarded message from Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com> -----
> 
> From: Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com>
> Subject: Perl 6 Microgrants. Now accepting proposals.
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:04:29 -0400
> To: perl6-internals at perl.org, perl6-language at perl.org,
>         perl6-compiler at perl.org, perl5-porters at perl.org
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the inaugural Perl 6 Microgrants program.
> Best Practical Solutions (my company) has donated USD5,000 to The
> Perl Foundation to help support Perl 6 Development.  Leon Brocard,
> representing The Perl Foundation's grants committee, will work with
> me to select proposals and evaluate project success.  We'll be making
> USD500 grants to worthy Perl 6 related efforts. We're hoping to fund
> a range of Perl 6-related projects over the life of the grant
> program.  Accepted grants might be for coding, documentation, testing
> or even writing articles about Perl 6. The program isn't tied to any
> one implementation of Perl 6 -- We're interested in seeing proposals
> related to Pugs, Perl 6 on Parrot, Perl 6 on Perl 5 or any other Perl
> 6 implementation.  Generally, we're interested in seeing projects
> that can be completed in 4-6 calendar weeks.
> 
> Submitting a grant proposal
> ---------------------------
> 
> To submit a grant proposal, please email us at perl6-
> microgrants at perl.org with the following information:
> 
> * A two to three paragraph summary of the work you intend to do
> * A quick bio - Who are you? Is there opensource work you've done
> that we should have a look at?
> * A brief description of what "success" will mean for your project -
> How will we know you're done?
> * Where (if anywhere) you've discussed your project in the past
> * Where you'll be blogging about your progress. (Twice-weekly blog
> posts are a requirement for getting your grant money)
> 
> We'll be accepting proposals on a rolling schedule. We expect to pay
> out these first 10 grants over the course of the summer. Depending on
> how things go, we'll then either find more money for more grant
> programs or we'll wind up the program and move on to other endeavors.
> 
> We're really excited to get rolling. Submit your proposals early and
> often. Don't let somebody else beat you to the punch ;)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jesse
> 
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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