I would just like to reply to myself for the record, I looked at the perl 6 mailing list (nicely linked from perl.com regularly) and saw the posts involved. It seems resources are lower than ideal but is clear from the thread that there are very sophisticated issues being considered, it is really still involving much theorization about what the language needs, and working out strategies, and so funding alone would not be sufficient. It is just a big, heroic job. Still however if there were funds they might indeed be put to good use.