Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 3000 Synopsis Lots of general improvements of CPAN::Forum. Benefits to the Perl Community CPAN::Forum has been around for several years now and it is linked from both major search engines but it is under utilized. Improving its interface will make it easier for users to ask questions regarding specific modules. The whole idea of CPAN::Forum was to provide an alternative to setting up

Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 1500 Synopsis Integrating the perl built-in debugger into Padre, the Perl IDE using Debug::Client a stand alone client to the perl debugger. Benefits to the Perl Community Padre already has many features required for a text editor. Adding the debugging capabilities will allow any perl programmer to use the power of the built in debugger without the fear of the command line or

Name: John R. Hogerhuis Email: Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Benefits to the Perl Community The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to continue to use its favorite tool to solve problems on the Windows platform without giving up

Prepare for a big post! Here are the most recent updates from TPF running grants. "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl No updates this time. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Schwern update: TB2 development has been dead for the last few months, largely because I haven't been programming. I'm getting started again, I've been poking at the code again lately, and I'm making three changes to the way its developed. _1> Reigning in the TB2

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2009. 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 to be a Perl master or guru.

This is the first update for running grants on 2009. At the moment TPF has 12 running grants: "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl I just uploaded YAML-Perl-01_01. It has the entire Loader stack represented. You can play with it by using: ysh -MYAML::Perl It will load many simple YAML documents all the way through, but is not yet complete, so many others will fail. There are 10 modules involved in the

Adam Kennedy finished his Perl on a Stick grant a few weeks ago. You can download the first beta release in Strawberry Perl website Also, while TPF expects Adam to publish a final report sometime, he wrote some posts on his use.perl blog about this grant. Here is a brief resume of them: Strawberry Perl October 2008 Released! I can't submit my grant report yet because of The Sekrit! Microsoft

Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications No updates. Vadim Konovalov Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo Vadim update: Today I've sent a patch to the parrot development list, which is the first portion of work, and I hope to do the remaining work on the grant within current week, including within 20th and 21th december, so I am planning to finish it before December, 22.

On November 20, 2008, "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/ submitted an "Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants request entitled "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements.":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html Public comments regarding this grant request were extremely positive. These, in addition to consultation with "Jesse Vincent":http://bestpractical.com/about/us.html and "Patrick Michaud":http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Pm/AboutPm allow The Perl Foundation to enthusiastically accept this grant request. "chromatic":http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/ has agreed to volunteer as the grant manager for this grant, and TPF gladly accepts his help with

Sorry for taking so much time to publish results. TPF have been funding a lot of grants in the last quarters. During this year, TPF invested more than $25.000 in grants, directly related to the standard grant program. Unfortunately donations to TPF are not compensating the invested amount. Thus, this grant TPF can't afford to fund more than two grants Moose Documentation a proposal by Dave Rolsky The Mojo Documentation

We know that results are expected for the fourth quarter call for grant proposals. We expect to publish results really soon. Regarding running grants, follow some updates: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN For the past few days Colin have been reacquainting himself with the BSDPAN code and sketching out a couple different approaches. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: I've been adding unit tests on scalar references and

Daniel Ruoso's Grant Manager just forwarded a big update on SMOP. To keep people up-to-date on current developments I am publishing it off schedule. Please refer to the extended version of this post for details. We are already a month off-scedule But I'm pretty happy anyway, and I'm pretty confident that this delay is worth the trouble, considering the interesting amount of progress we're having So, to the update: We're

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Colin should start working later in the Winter. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: I've added unit tests fixed a few bugs and added a two useful methods that I found missing while doing so. Made some changes to the exporting code, making it easier to export with a slurping argument.

"Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/ has submitted a request for an "Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for his proposal "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancement". A part of the Hague grant process is that submitted grant requests may, as opted by the submitter, be provided for public and community comment. Jonathan's grant request is included here, below. Any interested Perl community members may provide their comments regarding this grant request here. Name: Jonathan

Now that the Parrot Foundation has "their own webste":http://www.parrot.org, I will be posting all grant updates to that site. You can see the "latest update":http://www.parrot.org/news/nlnet-grant-update-september-and-october-2008 there right now. In the future, all updates will be posted solely to parrot.org. I've also moved "the page that describes the grant structure":http://www.parrot.org/foundation/grants/nlnet-grant to parrot.org.

It is with considerable pleasure that TPF announces today a Perl development grant to David Mitchell for the release of Perl 5.10.1. David's work through this grant will be: The vetting and application of 400+ outstanding patches to the Perl 5.10 codebase; A rework of the "smart match" feature semantics to address known issues; Packaging of a Perl 5.10.1 release distribution. The funding amount of this grant is USD $5000,

Recently, Patrick Michaud, head of the "'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation":http://rakudo.org/ effort on top of the "Parrot VM":http://www.parrot.org/, was awarded the first "Hague grant for Perl 6 development":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. This grant is effectively a follow-up and extension to his highly successful "Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation grant for Perl 6 development ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/11/patrick_michaud_awarded_perl_6.htmlthat was awarded in November 2007. Patrick wrote an "excellent summary":http://use.perl.org/%7Epmichaud/journal/37403 of the grant and what it achieved at his "use.perl.org":http://use.perl.org/ journal.

The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the second "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Jerry Gay, core Parrot hacker and 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation hacker. The details of Jerry's grant proposal are below. The work will be to define the S19 synopsis pertaining to command-line interaction with Perl 6, and to provide a Rakudo implementation of the synopsis. Jesse Vincent, the project manager of the Perl 6 effort,

The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the first "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Patrick Michaud, the head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort on top of the Parrot VM. Conceptually it is an extension of Patrick's earlier Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation Perl 6 development grant that he worked on between late 2007 and mid 2008. The details of Patrick's grant proposal are below. Jesse Vincent, the

In May 2008, "Ian Hague provided The Perl Foundation with a huge donation for the sake of supporting Perl 6 development":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/tpf_receives_large_donation_in.html. In the past few months, and in consultation with Perl community members at YAPC::NA 2008, TPF has developed a Hague grant process for Perl 6 grants. Please visit "www.perlfoundation.org":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for more details regarding the Hague grants.