Berger, Daniel wrote:

> In some ways this would be analogous to the Perl Foundation.  However, I
> think that giving all the money to one or two folks, as the Perl Foundation
> did, would be a mistake for the Ruby community.  Ruby is behind Perl in the
> package/module race, and I think would benefit from a large number of
> smaller projects than hardcore development of one or two large projects
> (with the possible exception of Cardinal).  At this point in time, at least.

Seems to me the small projects are going to get developed as people need 
them. What may need more funding are the quantum leaps, like cardinal, 
and especially rite.