[epo-core] What are we going to -do- with this non-profit we have, anyway?

[Matt S Trout]

Ok, I guess somebody needs to try and outline what we're trying to achieve.

First off, there are a bunch of projects that will want to run under the
enperl banner. I'm going to ignore those, because they'll happen as we
make them happen.

The thing we really want to decide is: what do we do with the money we
collect?

Providing project hosting stuff isn't something that really needs funding
right now since SC already has the servers up for it and are happily
sponsoring it.

Small code bounties appear to be fail - the beer rewards stuff basically
got completely ignored.

Medium sized bounties might be a good idea.

I'm not sure I see us having the money for proper grants -yet-.

But I can see us being able to do $1k or similar sized things.

I'm wondering if enperl shouldn't focus its money on getting stuff visible
rather than advancing the project's codebase?

So for example there was some talk about getting a new design for some of
the perl.org sites - maybe we could Just Pay A Damn Designer for that.

I think documentation bounties would be good but I'm not sure how to make
them workable - anybody tried this and got suggestions?

I think also maybe a -small- stipend, UKP50 or so, for useful articles
that contribute to the cause might be good. My experience is that people
don't tend to write these for the money anyway (I know several perl.com
article authors who never actually chased them up to get paid) but I suspect
it might be worthwile having a small cash chunk anyway.

I also think we should consider what can be done to engage with businesses.
Making us an organisation that companies want to say they've donated to would
be really nice, and if we have to spend some cash to do it I see no problem
with that. If nothing else, the "these companies love perl so much they put
their money where their mouth is" side is well worth while.

So, everybody. Thoughts? (I expect a reply from everybody on this list, and
-will- be badgering you on IRC if I don't get one :)

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