The Perl Foundation

TPF receives large donation in support of Perl 6 development

Fri, 16 May 2008 21:53:47 +0000

On May 14, 2008, The Perl Foundation received a philanthropic donation of US$200,000 from Ian Hague. Mr. Hague is a co-founder of Firebird Management LLC, a financial fund management company based in New York City. This donation was the result of extensive discussions between Mr. Hague, The Perl Foundation and a Perl community member who wishes to remain anonymous.

The purpose of the donation is to support the development of Perl 6, the next generation of the Perl programming language. Roughly half of the funds will be used to support Perl 6 developers through grants and other means. The balance of the funds will be used by The Perl Foundation to develop its own organizational capabilities. This will allow The Perl Foundation to pursue additional funding opportunities to support Perl 6 development. Mr. Hague wants his contribution to be seed funding in that effort.

The Perl Foundation thanks Mr. Hague in the deepest possible terms. This donation is unprecedented in its generosity, scope and vision, and it is precisely what was needed at this junction in the development of Perl 6. We look forward to the greatest of successes with Perl 6, and this contribution is a key part of making that happen. The Perl Foundation will communicate further developments with the Perl community and Mr. Hague as the pieces of this plan are executed.

YAPC::NA 2009 Call for Venue closing in less than a month

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:23:15 +0000

This is a reminder that the YAPC::NA 2009 Call for Venue will be closing in less than a month. If you plan on trying to host YAPC::NA 2009 and you haven't started on your bid, you'd better get to it! The deadline for submissions this year is June 1st (as we would like to announce the 2009 venue at this year's YAPC::NA). You can get all of the details and see the Call for Venue posting on The Perl Foundation's blog.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jeremy Fluhmann (fluhmann at perlfoundation dot org).

MediaWiki Syntax Parser Grant -- Aborted...

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:59:30 +0000

In July 2007, TPF granted Shlomi Fish for a Perl-Based Mediawiki Syntax Parser.

Both parties have agreed to terminate this grant agreement. This will free up
Shlomi to work on other projects, and allow the Perl Foundation to use the
money to fund future grants.

2008Q2 Grant Proposals

Thu, 01 May 2008 21:10:00 +0000

To this post follows a set of posts with proposals received by the Perl Foundation grants committee during the second call for grant proposals for 2008. Although not usual, the rules of the TPF GC are changing and we hope to make this a rule. Proposals are accepted during one month and after that period, they are posted for public discussion on the Internet. This is important to make GC more aware of the community interest on the project, and to help opening the grants attribution process.

During the month of April we received the following grant proposals:

Please take some time on reading the proposals carefully and give some feedback on the relevance of the proposals.

NOTE: This discussion period will end May 10. Starting that date, the GC will begin the voting process. Please comment on each specific grant post or, if you want to give a broad opinion and comparison on the proposed grants, please comment this post. Thanks!

NOTE2: There are five new projects submitted by Michael Schwern. Although they were received one day later they were accepted because Michael sent some emails to me asking for one more day.

NOTE3: Somebody asked on a comment how these grants proposals work, and when. Please refer to the Perl Foundation Grants Committee page.

NOTE4: Voting process started today (May 10th). We hope to have results in a week. But, please, continue commenting as you might be helping the Grants Committee deciding which proposals to fund.

2008Q2 Grant Proposal - Revision Control for all of CPAN