Perl 🐪 Weekly #741 - Money to TPRF 💰

Originally published at Perl Weekly 741

Hi there!

It seems The Perl Planetarium got a facelift. Congratulations!

A couple of days ago I received an email from Olaf Alders, let me include the whole thing here as he explains it much better than I could do:

Hi Everyone,

Please excuse the mass email. Today we have a funding announcement for TPRF which is our largest gift (so far?) of 2025. I’d like to make a big splash for a few reasons:

Drawing attention to this may help to get our message out to more potential donors
This is great news for Perl/TPRF
Generating some buzz around this kind of news makes it easier for us to get another donation next year

If you feel comfortable, please help to amplify this in the venues where it works for you. I will list them below. If this is not your thing, that’s ok too, and I hope you’ll forgive the intrusion.

If you’re reposting on LinkedIn, the more impactful option is to repost with your own thoughts. If you don’t have thoughts to add, just a regular repost is great too.

If you’re able to upvote on Hacker News, that’s a pretty big deal. We have managed to spend a lot of time on the front page with these kinds of announcements and I can tell you that it does not go unnoticed, especially internally at the orgs who fund us.

If you can’t do this today, you can also do it tomorrow, later in the week etc. The idea is to keep this information circulating as much as possible and it doesn’t all have to happen on the same day.

On a related note, I’m happy to join a podcast or reach out to a publication to discuss this. If you have any contacts you’d like to share with me, I’m all ears.

Thanks for making it this far. Here come the links:

And the actual article is at perl.com

Thanks again. TPRF is not yet out of the woods as far as funding goes, but things are really looking up.

Enjoy your week!

—
Your editor: Gabor Szabo.

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