Laufeyjarson writes…

I’ve been watching the YAPC::NA presentations, and saw a mention of this Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083389021/create-perl-competition-to-the-php-content-managem

This is a project to help get a system written in Perl to compete with WordPress.  There is an existing system that’s close, all it needs is time, energy, and developers.  It sounds like there’s a great core there, but it’s lost the commercial support it had before, and the one developer can’t go it alone.

The Kickstarter is to try and fund some key work on it, and make it more accessible and as easy to get started as WordPress.

Sadly, the Kickstarter’s getting close to no traction, and that makes it look kind of bleak.

Here’s a signal boost; have a look at the system, read the page (the video has lots of good stuff, but it’s a little wordy) and consider supporting this useful development.

If you can’t support the Kickstarter, maybe you have time to help them get the major new release unblocked and keep it from sinking into the murk of obscurity.

At the end of the video, they point out that a hundred people giving a hundred dollars each will fund it, and get it over some of these hurdles.  A thousand people giving ten dollars each would work just as well.