Pinto:...:Thanks(3pm)

💖 Pinto::Manual::Thanks 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation for Pinto::Manual::Thanks — section 3pm, if you're keeping track — and it is genuinely just one long love letter, no cap. it's the thank-you page. the whole thing. and honestly? it ate. 🥹

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✨ VERSION ✨

version 0.14

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🫶 THANK YOU 🫶

so back in April of 2013, brian d foy organized a crowdfunding campaign (http://tinyurl.com/d989jys) to finance further development of Pinto. and like, to the author's knowledge, this was the first and (so far) largest crowdfunding campaign for an open source Perl project. iconic behavior, fr fr. 👑

thanks to the hard work of numerous individuals, the campaign ultimately exceeded its goals and raised $4,620.12 from 128 contributors (all listed below, and yes, we're listing every single one, bestie — nobody gets left out on my watch 💅). the author is truly grateful to each and every one of them. because of their generous support, they can continue doing the work they love most. that's the dream, honestly. 😭💖

and now, the moment you've been waiting for — the shoutout section, the group chat hall of fame, the literal main characters:

jrw 32982, Olaf Alders, Mark Allen, Rohan Almeida, Pat And Don, Ross Attrill, Renee B, John Bales, Michiel Beijen, Alan Berndt, James Beshara, Neil Bowers, Norbert Brandl, Philippe Bruhat

Lee Carmichael, Yanick Champoux, Gustavo Chaves, Peter Chines, Adam Clarke, Olav Cleemann, Jody Clements, Greg Cole, Montgomery Conner, Tudor Constantin, Anon Contrib, Anonymous Contributor, Justin Cook, Dave Cross

Tomasz Czepiel, Seth Daniel, Robert Debowski, Gautam Dey, José Diaz Seng, Boris Däppen, Magnus Enger, Hugh Esco, Roman F, David Farrell, Eric Folley, Mike Friedman, Wolf Gang, Greg Gerke

Nathan Glenn, Michael Gregorowicz, Jason Harlan, George Hartzell, John Haugeland, Sherry Heinz, Khaled Hussein, Toby Inkster, Infinity Interactive, Perl Is Fun, Chris Jack, Paul Johnson, Prakash Kailasa, Alexander Karelas

Aydar Khabibullin, Andrey Khozov, Wolfgang Kinkeldei, Yaroslav Korshak, Damien Krotkine, Michael Kröll, Tom Legrady, Felipe Leprevost, Hermen Lesscher, Vladimir Lettiev, Carlos Lima, Nick Logan, Søren Lund, Jim Martinez

Naveed Massjouni, Vyacheslav Matyukhin, Gabriel Munoz, Kamen Naydenov, Al Newkirk, T Nishimura, Ryan Olson, Marco Palma, Karen Pauley, Bryan Paxton, Emil Perhinschi, Matt Perry, Dimitar Petrov, Jamie Pitts

Ekki Plicht, Steve Purkis, Sean Quinlan, Michael Rasmussen, Will Redd, Jozef Reisinger, Dan Risse, Michel Rodriguez, Daniel Ruoso, Bill Ruppert, Timothy Sailer, Jorge Sainz, Moosa Salem, Conrad Schneiker

Clayton Scott, Craig Scrivner, Li Sen, Michael South, Tadeusz Sosnierz, Marc St Raymond, Seth Surchin, Gabor Szabo, Christopher Taranto, Jan Thorsen, Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi, A Sinan Unur, Bruce Van Allen, Todd Wade

Brian Wisti, John Wittkoski, William Wolf, Chisel Wright, Sawyer X, Andy Yates, Doyle Young, Marek Zareba, Kev Zettler, j0e axford, dagur, brian d foy, del skorch, Allen van der Ross

🌸 and one more round of applause, because the author also thanks Crowdtilt (http://crowdtilt.com) for graciously allowing them to use their fundraising platform free of charge, and for providing such excellent customer support during the campaign. absolute legends. 🎀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@stratopan.com>

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. slay, and also legally binding in the most chill way possible. ✨

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🦋 okay that's the whole page bestie, every single name preserved, every number intact, nothing skipped, no notes 💜

and that's a wrap on Pinto:...:Thanks(3pm) from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-04-21 — thanks for reading the thank-you page, which is lowkey the most wholesome genre of documentation. bye pookie, go thank a contributor today 🌈💖