New year, new impetus for Perl Foundation Marketing Committee
Sat, 15-Jan-2022 by
Nic Evans
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The TPF Marketing Committee wants to raise USD$100,000 to fund Perl and Raku development and make 2022 the year of Perl and Raku. But we can only do this with community support.
In 2022 the Perl Foundation Marketing Committee aims to:
* Achieve a fundraising target of $100,000 through improved fundraising efforts
* Improve and sustain the perception of Perl
* Address feature gaps from community feedback
* Demonstrate why people should use Perl
* Increase adoption of the language
These goals are just words without your help.
We need everyone in the community to share our news and updates via your social media and other channels.
We ask you to use [Amazon Smile](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/homepage/ref=smi_chpf_redirect/138-2474394-5588856?ie=UTF8&ein=38-3536536&ref_=smi_ext_ch_38-3536536_cl) when purchasing from Amazon, providing a percentage donation at no extra cost.
Can you ask your employer to make a donation, or maybe you could make a personal donation to [The Perl Foundation](https://www.perlfoundation.org/donate.html)?
Please get involved and coordinate activities at the monthly committee meetings. Come along with your ideas and willing hands so we can take action together.
The meeting dates for 2022 are listed below - all at 1730UTC via Zoom - join [the Marketing Slack channel](https://join.slack.com/share/enQtMjk0NzkzNjM4NzI5OS05MmE5OGRjNmEzYTNhZmUwMzllNmE2ZDMwMDk1YWMwMzI0NWNmMGM2NWRlM2Q5MzJkMmY4NmEwOTVhNzU2ZTFk) to keep up to date.
* 10 February
* 10 March
* 7 April
* 12 May
* 9 June
* 7 July
* 11 August
* 8 September
* 13 October
* 10 November
* 8 December
Thank you for your help and we look forward to seeing you!
Comments (3)
If you're asking for people to join on a Zoom meeting, or via a slack channel, it would be helpful if you would add a link to said Zoom meeting or slack channels.
Also, if you say: please use amazon smile, can you point out how to do that?
And you write ".. the Perl Foundation Marketing Committee aims to.. Address feature gaps from community feedback". Feature gaps in what? The perl marketing?
The links didnt make it from the draft to the post. They have now been added.
I'm in Russia, and www.perlfoundation.org (including the donations link) is not accessible from here for some reason. I checked with one of the online sites that check site availability from various locations around the globe, and it's not just me -- all their Russian locations, Kiev, Vilnius, and Strasbourg could not open the site as well. And I checked twice with 10 hrs break, same result. Just FYI.