Perl related crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Tilt, Indiegogo

Fundraising or crowdfunding is not easy. Here are all the Perl-realted crowdfunding campaigns so if you plan whan you can have a gut feeling what to expect.

Most recent first.

eBook: Programming the Raspberry Pi with Perl

Goal: $2,500.

by Timm Murray and Steve Bertrand.

Funding period: 2018.03.27-

Updating the Perl Maven Tutorial

Updating the Perl Tutorial and the creaation of the Perl Maven ebook by Gabor Szabo.

Goal was $4,000.

Successful.

Raised: $4,790 by 89 backers via Indiegogo + $655 by 8 backers via PayPal. A total $5,445 of by 97 backers.

Funding period was: 2018.02.19-2018.03.15 (25 days)

USD                total
1   gave $1,865     1,865
3   gave   $150       450
4   gave   $100       400
9   gave    $60       540
2   gave    $50       100
6   gave    $40       240
1   gave    $25        25

54 gave $20 1080 9 gave $10 90 -------------------------- 89 gave 4790

via PayPal:

1   gave   $500       500
1   gave    $30        30
1   gave    $29.57     29.57
1   gave    $23.80     23.80
3   gave    $20        60
1   gave    $11.77     11.77
--------------------------
8   gave             655.14

The Perl 6 Recipes book

by Andrew Shitov author of Perl 6 at a Glance, Perl 6 Deep Dive, and Using Perl 6.

Status: cancelled by Andrew on 2017.12.18 after receiving €1,160.

Goal was €19,900.

Funding period: 2017.11.23-2018.01.07

eBook: Single Page Application with Perl Dancer

for the Perl Dancer SPA book by Gabor Szabo

Goal was $4,000.

Raised: $5,837 by 143 backers + $640 by 9 backers outside of Indiegogo. A total of $6,477 by 152 backers.

(Leanpub 50+50+60) (PayPal 25+25+45+55+250+80)

Funding period was 2017.09.14 - 2017.10.06 (22 days)

USD              total
1   gave   $250    250
2   gave   $110    220
3   gave   $100    300

10 gave $80 800 2 gave $70 140 9 gave $60 540 16 gave $55 880 13 gave $50 650 10 gave $45 450 3 gave $40 120 19 gave $35 665 1 gave $30 30 54 gave $25 1,350 2 gave $20 40 3 gave $10 30 4 gave $3 12 ----------------------- 152 6,477

Bailador Book: Web Application Development in Perl 6

for the Perl 6 Bailador book by Gabor Szabo.

Did not reach the goal, but it was a "flexible" campaign meaning contributions are accepted even if the goal is not reached.

Goal was $32,500. raised $8,708 USD by 175 backers.

Funding period was May 21 2017 - June 21 2017 - then extended till July 20 2017. (total of 60 days)

USD total 1 gave $1,000 1,000 11 gave $100 1,100 44 gave $60 2,640 36 gave $50 1,800 2 gave $40 80 19 gave $35 665 47 gave $25 1,175 6 gave $20 180 1 gave $15 15 5 gave $10 50 1 gave $2 2 1 gave $1 1

175 8,708

Learning Perl 6, the Nutshell Book from O'Reilly Media

by brian d foy author of multiple Perl-related books.

Successful.

Goal was $37,000 pledged $40,404 by 563 backers.

Funding period was Nov 16 2016 - Dec 16 2016 (30 days)

USD Minimum total 1 backer gave 10,000 or more 10,000 3 backers gave 500 or more 1,500 7 backers gave 177 or more 1,239 25 backers gave 137 or more 3,425 22 backers gave 127 or more 2,794 6 backers gave 108 or more 648 11 backers gave 107 or more 1,177 15 backers gave 99 or more 1,320 14 backers gave 73 or more 1,022 10 backers gave 66 or more 660 156 backers gave 50 or more 7,800 100 backers gave 35 or more 3,500 100 backers gave 25 or more 2,500 29 backers gave 10 or more 290 52 backers gave 1 or more 52

551 (2 missing?) 37,927

Heroes of the Revolution T-Shirts: Larry Wall

by brian d foy

Goal was $2,400.

pledged $2,685 by 77 backers.

Funding period: Nov 18 2015 - Dec 12 2015 (24 days)

PerlDancer Book

by Alexis Sukrieh, author of Perl Dancer.

Unsuccessful.

Goal was €15,000. Pleged 9,957 EUR by 129 backers.

Funding period was Oct 30 2015 - Dec 13 2015 (30 days)

EUR Minimum total 4 backers gave 1,000 or more 4,000 1 backer gave 300 or more 300 28 backers gave 100 or more 2,800 33 backers gave 40 or more 1,320 61 backers gave 10 or more 610

127 (2 missing?) 9,030

Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, RPerl v1.2

by Will Braswell

Goal was $1,701.

Pledged $6,009 by 49 backers

Funding period Sep 21 2015 - Oct 1 2015 (10 days)

USD Minimum total 1 backer gave 1,500 or more 1,500 2 backers gave 500 or more 1,000 2 backers gave 250 or more 500 2 backers gave 150 or more 300 3 backers gave 85 or more 255 1 backer gave 60 or more 60 4 bakcers gave 40 or more 160 5 backers gave 25 or more 125 9 backers gave 10 or more 90 11 backers gave 1 or more 11

40 (9 missing?) 4,001

Mastering Perl at the Swiss Perl Workshop

by brian d foy

Goal was $2,250.

Funding period Aug 8 2014 - Sep 3 2014 (25 days)

Pledges $2,411 by 16 backers.

USD Minimum total 2 backers gave 300 or more 600 1 backer gave 250 or more 250 3 backers gave 100 or more 300 3 backers gave 50 or more 150 10 backers gave 10 or more 100

19 (3 extra?) 1,400