Forwarded : [yas] Damian Conway Awarded Perl Development Grant

Stephane Rondal rondal at usa.net
Mon Oct 30 02:33:07 CST 2000


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Subject: Forwarded : [yas] Damian Conway Awarded Perl Development Grant


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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Yet Another Society Community Funded Perl Development Grant
> Awarded to Damian Conway
>
> Sun Oct 29 16:07:57 EST 2000
>
> In an unprecedented two week contribution period, users, programmers,
> and companies involved with the Perl community raised enough
> funding to grant Damian Conway the first-ever Perl Development Grant
> through the Yet Another Society (http://yetanother.org).
>
> "The community just came together immediately and turned this from
> a possibility into a reality, in an unbelievably short time.  Damian
> has been one of the most active members of the Perl community, and
> now he has a chance to spend a year working on something he really
> cares about -- Perl," said Kevin Lenzo, the president of Yet
> Another Society.  "Individuals and companies that care about Perl
> have carried out a new kind of patronage here."
>
> Blackstar (http://www.blackstar.co.uk), an on-line video sales
> company, offered US$27,500 in matching contributions at the start of
> the fund raising, amounting to half of what was needed to buy out
> Dr. Conway's obligations at Monash University in Australia.  Other
> major contributions came from VA Linux (http://www.valinux.com),
> Manning Publications (http://www.manning.com), Stonehenge Consulting
> (http://www.stonehenge.com), O'Reilly Publications
> (http://www.oreilly.com), and from several individuals.  Funding over
> the base amount is to be used for travel and expenses.
>
> See http://yetanother.org/damian/ for more information.  The list
> of contributors will be posted there, as will Dr. Conway's diary
> and calendar for the next year.
>
> Yet Another Society (YAS) is an organization dedicated to the
> advancement of collaborative efforts in Computer and Information
> Science, and is the parent organization of the Yet Another Perl
> Conference (http://www.yapc.org).  YAS has applied for non-profit
> status in the United States.  Dr. Damian Conway is a Lecturer
> at Monash University, and has contributed greatly to Perl.  He
> is also the author of the book "Object Oriented Perl."
>
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