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Here's some details about the foundation's financials - https://blogs.perl.org/users/makoto_nozaki/2024/10/understanding-the-financials-of-the-perl-and-raku-fou
by autarch 2y ago
Here's some details about the foundation's financials - https://blogs.perl.org/users/makoto_nozaki/2024/10/understanding-the-financials-of-the-perl-and-raku-foundation-tprf.html https://blogs.perl.org/users/makoto_nozaki/2024/10/understan...
- verelo 2y agoSo yeah, they’re doing rough… Not sure what the path out here is? Seems like either finding deep pockets that care about their work or some new revenue stream, but without the cash to fund it I’m not sure how.
- portaouflop 2y agoStop doing it for free it the only way, OSS projects that rely on donations almost always do badly economically
- knowitnone 2y agook. say they charge every user or business $100 a year. that would certainly kill off Perl
- portaouflop 2y agoI’m not saying it’s practical right now, but yea the death of Perl is the only thing that can make it profitable.
- _hcuq 2y agoMaybe programmers at companies using Perl get together and raise the issue with management? It is a bargain. Imagine the cost of having to rewrite all that Perl.
- riffraff 2y agoI don't understand why grant expenses surged in 2023 if revenue was going down. I wish the Perl foundation good luck.
- infecto 2y agoI don't know the dynamics of this board but does anyone else find it strange that the secretary is digging through public documents to generate a post outlining finances? Is that not what the treasurer should be helping with? Then the treasurer makes a public comment to the post? Feels very strange to me.
- autarch 2y agoJust to clarify, Dan Wright is the former treasurer. He retired from the TPRF board back in 2020 (https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/board_update_tpf_treasurer https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/board_update_tpf_treasu...). But to answer the bigger question, yes, I think this was a bit weird. I was also on the board for a while, and I think we did not do a good job of reporting on and monitoring financials. This was one of my frustrations with the organization, and part of the reason I stepped down from the board (though there were other, bigger, reasons not related to the board as well). In fact, I had made the same points as Makoto does in his blog post maybe 1-2 years earlier in a board meeting. We were running a constant deficit and we didn't seem to have a clear plan for what we would do if that continued.