Last week was a short week for me because I was doing a lot of work up at camp for the Scouts. So here's a two-week update:

TPF:

• I've been learning a lot about "Level 2" and "Level 3" credit card transactions.   It turns out that when you start handling corporate and government issue credit cards through your gateway, the rules change.   And, if you don't comply with those rules, you end up paying a lot of money!
• That prompted me to check into how much money we're paying in transaction fees, and I manage to get the bank to drop those rates for us.   JT Smith has also been checking around with other gateways to try to find us an even better rate.
• The Perl 5 Core Grant fund now has 5 donors that have set up monthly recurring donations via donor.com.   So far, we've collected about $1,200 from non-corporate donations.

• Things are really coming together now.  Several sponsors have sent in their money recently, and we now have enough talks to put on an event.  By the time this blog is published, I hope to have the schedule published.