Most open source projects do not require $100K to get completed nor hundreds of developers working on it at the same time.<p>This is a great example of small scale open source initiative.
Using Perl to crowdfund Perl, I love it. Crowdtilt is built with Perl, as is stated on their site's footer, "Powered by Perl Dancer" - <a href="https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/specify-module-version-ranges-in-pint" rel="nofollow">https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/specify-module-version-r...</a>
Fun fact and off topic: "pinto" in portuguese means something like "cock" (in reference to the male sex organ) but is also a very common surname in Brazil, which may cause funny situations (or not).
Perl seems to have gotten left behind as a language. The entire lost decade of Perl 6 is crazy. Sure, Perl can say that it has more modules and it might be a little better as a glue language, but for me I think it's time to adopt Ruby or Python. Except, of course, for when perl -ane '...' is needed in a pinch. :-)<p>Seriously, developers are dividing their efforts three different ways with three different scripting languages. It's probably better for everyone to learn Ruby and Python rather than have a third.