SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to The Perl and Raku Foundation
Aug 7, 2025 by Olaf Alders
The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is thrilled to announce a substantial $11,500 donation from SUSE, one of the world’s leading enterprise Linux and cloud-native and AI solutions providers. This generous contribution bolsters the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund and demonstrates SUSE’s commitment to the open-source ecosystem.
This donation from SUSE is actually made up of two parts. $10,000 is being donated by SUSE LLC and an additional $1,500 is being provided by The SUSE Open Source Network, to support the development and sustainability of Perl. This aligns with the network’s mission to empower and support open source communities.
“At SUSE, Perl is a fundamental component and member of our ecosystem,” explains Miguel Pérez Colino, Director of Operations, Linux Product Management & Marketing. “We provide it as part of our Linux offerings by actively supporting Perl packages in SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE. We use it extensively in our toolset, powering among others OpenQA and Open Build Service, this last one is used to build not just Linux packages but also Kubernetes.”
