This quarter TPF Grants Committee received two proposals for grants. They are: "AnyEvent::HTTPBenchmark":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-anyevent.html Naim Shafiev "Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html Jonathan "Duke" Leto Please take the time to read them carefully and comment. TPF GC is interested in the community feedback about these grants. Just try to be polite.

José and Bruno write: We have concluded the documentation on: installation procedures load balancing reverse proxy web server We have also listed several features we didn't contemplate originally but that we feel must be documented too, so we're going through them as well. We're one week late but since we accounted for a two weeks delay on the proposal, we're still good. The target date remains at December 6th. We

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Mostly worked on leak bugs this month. Over the first 30 weeks I have now averaged about 14 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 84% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/09/01 to 2010/09/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq. 14:59 diagnosing bugs 27:30 fixing

Kartik Thakore reported: Since last time: We have released SDL 2.518 Game Loop support completed Chapters: 2nd Drafts for: Preface to Game Loop Chapters completed: 5/11 45% Extra: cfedde has made a script to extract code listings for readers to try examples with out having to retype them. Coments: I am receiving a lot more help from the community, most notable from cfedde for proofreading. I will be

Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2010. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have

Leon just sent me another update on his grant: _bq. Most importantly, I'm finally able to build a dll on Windows, this is an important milestone. The dll still has some issues that prevent it from working correctly though, and it will probably require patches to some ExtUtils:: modules to resolve that. I also improved the documentation Lastly I've been resolving a number of bug reports that I've received lately,

Kartik Thakore reported: 1st drafts Preface Chapter 2: First SDL Application Started work on Chapter 3: Drawing Outlines for the first 7 chapters have been completed Book build framework has been setup Released SDL 2.514 This code is the one that will be used in the book for chapter 02 Got more of the Drawing chapter done Added several more code examples for other chapters Progress: 2.75

Michael Schwern is working on Test::Builder 2 and posted some updates on the project. Go read them before use.perl starts the process of moving servers. Test::Builder2 at 10k Feet Finally, some Test::Builder2 examples!

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. I was mostly busy with other stuff this month, so didn't get to put in many hours on the grant. Over the first 25 weeks I have now averaged about 15 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 73% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for

Leon just sent an update on his grant: Past month I've been to YAPC::EU where I spoke about part of my project. I also used it to discuss some of the Windows related issues I ran into with others and they have helped me getting clear what's the problem. I haven't quite fixed it yet though. I also worked on refactoring and expanding the documentation, and fixed some bugreports I

I am pleased to announce that Jonathan Worthington's Hague Grant for "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html has been accepted. Patrick Michaud has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

The Perl Foundation Grants Committee is happy to inform on the results of the 2010Q3 round for grant assignments. After the public discussion on The Perl Foundation blog, and after the Grants Committee discussion and vote, the proposals were ranked as: Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl by Kartik Thakore Perlbal documentation by José Castro and Bruno Martins Perl 6 Tablets by Herbert Breunung Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem Tests

I am pleased to announce that Patrick Michaud's Hague Grant for "Lists, Iterators, and Parcels":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-lists.html has been accepted. Will Coleda has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. This month was mainly spent on providing a general fix for the weak backreferences in stashes globs and CVs. This means that in general there are likely to be less crashes when doing odd things with stashes and globs. Over the first 21 weeks I have now averaged about 17 hours per week, slightly

I am pleased to announce that Solomon Foster has successfully completed his Hague Grant for "Numeric and Real Support":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/hague-grant-application-numeri.html. I would like to thank Solomon and his grant manager, Jonathan Worthington, for all their work on this project. Solomon Foster writes: Introduction While I worked on this grant, Rakudo has matured into a capable compiler ready to go out into the world as Rakudo Star. The work done under this

Dear Perl Community, The grants committee got back to the usual request for grant proposals. This quarter we have nine interesting proposals. Unfortunately we will not be able to fund them all. Therefore, we would love to read your comments on the grant proposals, so that we would be aware of how the community is interested in these grant deliverables. Please, be respectful on your comments. Perl 6 Tablets by

Perl 6 book in russian Name: Naim Shafiev, Zahatski Aliaksandr Email: Amount Requested: 2000 Synopsis Perl6 has reached development stage when on it is possible to program. The release of the version "Rakudo Star" for developers confirms it. At the given stage of development of language, it is important that the information on it was as it is possible is accessible to programmers, and also that who is interested in

YAC Name: Ricardo Filipo Email: Amount Requested: US$ 3.000 Synopsis A realy killer CMS. So simple! So usefull! use YAC; my $web new YAC; $web-> run go to web! Benefits to the Perl Community A CMS can be a web tool used in some internet business to help and administer media publication. As a market lider let's consider Drupal a php based CMS, reference product used by everywere, a key

Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem Tests and Documentation Name: Jonathan "Duke" Leto. Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis Currently the Parrot Embedding subsystem is under-tested and under-documented. This grant proposes to add documentation for all public Embed/Extend API functions, write tests to increase the code coverage statistics for the Embed/Extend API to at least 95%, and update the Parrot Developer Docs where errors or omissions are found. Any bugs found on the

CPAN to deb autopackaging Name: Jozef Kutej Email: Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis The aim of the project would be to create automatic CPAN distribution to Debian deb packaging system. Then use it to autopackage and backport at least 50% of the CPAN distributions resulting in a Debian repository with multiple thousand Perl related packages. Benefits to the Perl Community Debian+Ubuntu operating systems are very popular among Perl developers. According to