Hi everyone,<br><br>I was wondering if anyone out there could give me -- well, TPF -- a hand with something. Eclipsecon is coming up in about 2 weeks and it would be great if I could attend. The organizers have compped my admission and the brass within Eclipse Foundation have committed to spending a few days with me in private session there. I'm really interested in getting close to Eclipse because they've managed to pull off a few really great things -- (a) Eclipse is pervasive in industry up to and including "enterprise level" programming; it is above-the-radar and officially supported everywhere we wish Perl was, (b) Eclipse Foundation has put together a business model that allow Eclipse Foundation to do all the right things to make (a) happen, and (c) they are "mission-based", i.e. what they do they do in support of Eclipse as a concept, not for some other reason. I want (a) to work for Perl, I think TPF needs (b) in order to help make (a) happen, and (c) is the only way to go in order to respect the Perl community while doing (a) and (b). Spending quality time with the Eclipse folks is I think a really good way to go down this road.<br>
<br>The specific help I'm looking for is if anyone out there has a bunch of frequent flier miles they'd be willing to use to spring a plane ticket on me with. This is part of a general fund-raising I'm doing to support the trip; I've raised a few $100 already and I can kick in a few $100 myself too... but not a few $1000. It is getting close to the dates for the conference so I thought maybe I could ask people around here. You gang have a pretty good sense that I'm not fly-by-night and not (too) full of BS, so your effort in support of TPF would not be futile. Or so the theory for me asking for help goes. :-)<br>
<br>Thanks,<br> - Richard<br><br>