Re: Re: Re: PerlMonks Boosters' Club

[agent00013]

a node... good idea =)

We, the people of the Perl Monks community, hereby declare are intent to...

Ok, that's as far as I can go. I'd be willing to help out writing the preamble. I'll even make sure to write it in a program with spell checking capabilities so I don't make any gufy misteaks.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Larry Wall a busy man? It'd be sweet if we could get him to write up and respond to just one node. It'll take a lot of people though to pull him to this site. *glances at the current poll* we've only got about 1000 votes on the site's poll, so that's about all the votes we can count on maximum if we get any sort of petition going.

I pledge allegiance to the Perl Monks... is this the sort of pledge you were referring to, nysus, or do you mean something more along the lines of "I will not -- without giving reasons, I will not flame, troll, bate, or attempt to entrap other monks in a node of death, ..."?

If we do the "Perl Monks needs money" drive, people usually like some sort of reward for contributing. For donating to PBS, people get coffee mugs. Cheesy stuff like that. PM can't afford to give out any real prizes, but are there non-monetary "rewards" that can be given?

[nysus]

As far as getting Larry Wall, contribution campaign, etc, I just tossed those out as examples. They may/may not be achievable. Those are ideas for the members to decide if/when there are any members. Judging from the response to this node, however, it doesn't look like there is much interest. It looks like you and I would be the only Booster Club members. Welcome and congratualtions!

As far as the other details for the Booster Club node, let's wait and see if we even get a node. I'm hoping someone like tilly or Ovid or some other PM leader throws their weight behind this. Otherwise, I think we'd just be spinning out wheels.

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot Bishop";
$nysus = $PM . $MCF;
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