You can find on use.perl some updates on Adam Kennedy Perl on a Stick grant. Quoting: This is the first release of Strawberry Perl Portable Edition for Mobile Devices and Flash Drives Firstly, please note this is extremely alpha. In fact it's SO alpha that it's basically just whatever is on my test flash drive, zipped up with no packaging at all. To install, simply unzip it absolutely anywhere you

The 2008Q2 grant round was by far the largest in recent years in both the quantity and quality of grant requests received by TPF. Characterisitically, TPF authorizes about US$5,000 of grant funding per quarter. In 2008Q2 we received nearly US$45,000 in grant requests. We see this as both a positive thing and a problem. The positive part is that it shows some great activity in the Perl community and people

It took a long time, but for this round we had a big number of excellent proposals. Unfortunately TPF is unable to fund all the proposed grants as they exceed the funds available for Grants. Thus, TPF GC ranked proposals accordingly with its relevance to the community, and the first few were funded. These are the funded proposals: "Perl on a Stick":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_perl_on.html, by Adam Kennedy "Test::Builder 2":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_testbuil.html, by Michael Schwern

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.

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Module Authoring Documentation Synopsis: Write a "wizard" to guide users through finding the correct arguments for MakeMaker and Module::Build by asking them how they want modules installed. Provide as a stand alone app, integrate into the CPAN shell and as part of the MakeMaker and Module::Build installation. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Module Installation Configuration Wizard Synopsis Write a "wizard" to guide users

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Automatic INSTALL.txt generation Synopsis: Write a module which can automatically generate Perl module installation instructions. Integrate into Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Automatic INSTALL.txt generation Synopsis: Write a module which can automatically generate Perl module installation instructions. Integrate into Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Benefits to the Perl Community Most Perl modules come without module installation instructions. At most they might include

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Test::Builder2 Synopsis: Write a new, incompatible version of Test::Builder to improve the architecture and support desired features which Test::Builder does not or cannot. Make sure that both Test::Builder and Test::Builder2 based testing modules can work together. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Test::Builder2 Synopsis: Write a new, incompatible version of Test::Builder to improve the architecture and support desired features which Test::Builder does not or

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: CPAN Stability Project Synopsis: The CPAN Stability Project is intended to improve the usability of CPAN over long term use by providing a way to choose between safe releases vs newest releases as well as to better guarantee that upgrading will not break anything. It draws heavily on Debian's release management and tiers Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: CPAN Stability Project Synopsis: The

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Make localtime and gmtime Work Past 2038 Synopsis: Prevent the Y2038 bug from effecting Perl users. This means make localtime and gmtime work for times beyond 2038. Do this regardless of the state of the system C libraries. A working solution, in C, already exists. This grant is to finish the portability issues, write additional tests and change perl to use the repaired C

Name: Colin Smith Title: Extending BSDPAN Synopsis: Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Name: Colin Smith Title: Extending BSDPAN Synopsis: Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Benefits to the Perl Community: The wealth of freely available code CPAN represents is one of the Perl language's greatest strengths. Tighter