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• Ya, it annoys me too (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  I tried to suggest once that they should have some sort of memberships... personal, professional, corporate etc, with monthly costs or something.
  
  I seem to recall there was some flustering about how the US-imposed corporate structure was crap and so they legally couldn't do anything useful to help themselves.
  
  Or something like that...
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by cbrandtbuffalo (4462)

    We would love to accept monthly donations and we're working on making that easier. I'm currently working on a project to revamp TPF's donation system and it started with my request for a perl CRM [perlfoundation.org]. This will help us (TPF) better manage our relationship with you (our customer, in this case our supporters). I'm still working on the plan for this and should have updates soon. Watch TPF's blog.
    
    With regard to memberships, we've discussed this too. There are various questions that need to be sorted out to offe
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Alias (5735)

      Oh, maybe things like...
      
      - A vote in notional executive elections, if we ever had enough people to take it that way.
      
      - Points to spend on helping choose which grants to fund?
      
      - A complementary (and possibly exclusive?) DVD of talks from, say, YAPC::NA turning up at my door unexpectedly.
      
      But in general, the same things as you get from any membership.
      
      1. Community
      
      2. Exclusivity
      
      3. Respect
      
      4. Influence
      
      5. Altruism
      
      Don't treat this as a pure dollars and cents exercise, I don't want membership because I get $x dollars CA
      • Re:Ya, it annoys me too (Score:2)

        by cbrandtbuffalo (4462) on 2008.03.27 7:29 (#61802) Journal

        I copied your response to the perl 5 wiki [perlfoundation.org] so we can better capture the discussion. I hope you don't mind. I put a few questions there as well.

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