[perlgeek]

And TPF can put the money to good use; recently (2010 or 2011, don't remember exactly) they started to pay one core developer (Dave Mitchell) to work on bug fixes and refactors that nobody else wanted to do. Later Nicholas Clark got a similar grant, and both have been used to great effect.

I'm not deeply invovled the p5 developers, but it doesn't look like these grant create envy in other contributors, judging from the development speed.

[draegtun]

re: Dave Mitchel / core development - Yes it was 2010 on the back of a $50K grant from Booking.com in Dec 2008: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/12/grant-from-bookingcom...