DynDNS Raises Over $4,500 for The Perl Foundation
July 11, 2003
PORTLAND, OREGON – While at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2003, DynDNS.org and Onyx Neon raised $4,837 at an auction to benefit The Perl Foundation Thursday night. This money will benefit the general Perl development fund. All of the items at auction were generously donated by O'Reilly, Disney, and members of the Open Source and Perl communities.
“The auction was a great success,” said Jeremy Hitchcock. “We had a great time with this last year and this year. We’re hoping to see this as an annual event.”
At the climax of of the event, a one-year choice of the primary color for search.cpan.org was placed up for auction. London.pm launched a collaborative bid for their choice of color (orange). Others fought this effort and eventually won with a bid of $1,025, deciding to keep the original color, web-safe teal. In the end, London.pm will be given the choice of color for one month for their spirited attempt.
A special thanks goes out to Robert Spier from Disney for officiating the auction, Uri Guttman of Stem Systems, and Liz Cash from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
About The Perl Foundation
The Perl Foundation, a creation of the Yet Another Society, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with a mission to advance collaborative efforts in Computer Science and Information Technology. The Perl Foundation coordinates the Perl Mongers, perlmonks, the international Yet Another Conferences, and the Perl Development Grants. More information on the Perl Foundation is available at http://www.perl-foundation.org/.
About Onyx Neon
Onyx Neon is a consulting company dedicated to supporting Open Source development and Open Source developers. More information about Onyx Neon can be found on their website at onyxneon.com.