Last year, I wrote that the total cost of a Perl Toolchain Summit is in the order of 50,000€. It's all covered by sponsors and attendees (and the leftovers from the previous years).

We're now preparing the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026, which will be held from Thursday, April 23rd until Sunday, April 26th, in Vienna, Austria.

Today, I'll briefly explain why we need sponsors for the event, and propose a new way to think about sponsorship to our corporate sponsors.