As part of a renewed effort to expand the membership of the "Board":http://www.perlfoundation.org/who_s_who we are pleased to announce the addition of Curtis "Ovid" Poe as our newest Director. Ovid is not new to The Perl Foundation, having been involved with the grants committee since 2003, and we are delighted that he is willing to take on this role. His first task will be to work with Dan Magnuszewski to expand ... read more |
The TPF board of directors wants to provide a progress update on discussion regarding providing support to Richard Dice to work on TPF and Perl community issues. The original public announcement and request-for-comment is "found here.":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/request_for_comment_tpf_to_eng.html The new version of this proposal is available here It has been revised considerably based on community comment and discussion within TPF. Highlights of the changes between the original version and the current one ... read more |
Back a few months ago I was interviewed by Renée Bäcker, the publisher of "$foo, the German language Perl magazine":http://perl-magazin.de/. The issue with that interview is just about to be released. You can read the "English version of the interview":http://downloads.foo-magazin.de/InterviewRichardDice2.pdf online. Understandably the interview talks about TPF's perspective on Perl through 2008 and other news and happenings in Perl and TPF. ... read more |
Earlier this past week I submitted a proposal to the TPF Board of Directors; the PDF of this proposal is attached here. The plan includes a long list of projects, most of which have been discussed within TPF for a while but have been on indefinite hold due mainly to lack of available effort to address them properly. Some are for TPF process improvement and others are in more direct ... read more |
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