Personally I am at best lukewarm on it. I don't like people looking at the talent arrayed here and drooling over how it can be used. This section of the talent already is fully utilized. I work for a for profit company, sure. However I also view time and energy spent on Perlmonks as donated time. And I have other things that I like to do, both with and without a computer in front of me.

So I wouldn't be involved. I suspect many others would likewise be unavailable. And monks who are inclined to volunteer have no shortage of ways to do that already. Off of the top of my head, worthy projects include SEUL, The FSF, plus virtually any large volunteer organization has data infrastructure needs. Do as Larry Wall does, volunteer to help at your churches website!

In fact looking through the comments, I see a lot of people who can think of things they want resources thrown at. I don't see a lot of people saying that they cannot find places to put their energy. Until we get that, I have to wonder how well it would work.

(Sorry)