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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Barcode support in Act Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Andrew Shitov Title: Barcode support in Act Synopsis: Integrate a set of tools into A Conference Toolkit that will allow on-site registration with barcodes. Name Andrew Shitov Project Title Barcode support in Act Synopsis Integrate a set of tools into A Conference Toolkit that will allow on-site registration with barcodes. Benefits to the Perl Community Using barcodes during the registration process allows speeding up on-site registration at Perl workshops

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: The Perl Survey Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Kieren Diment Title: The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis: In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised and administered the Perl survey to provide a snapshot of the Perl community. In particular she made significant effort to recruit as many people as possible, resulting in a sample size of around 4500 responses Author Kieren Diment Project Title The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Rufus Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Authors: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls Title: Rufus Synopsis: Build a preprocessor for PASM and a language with PASM like syntax Name Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls Project Title Rufus Synopsis Build a preprocessor for PASM and a language with PASM like syntax Benefits to the Perl Community A nice approach "bottom-up" from PASM and tools for making easier PASM programming. Deliverables A PASM preprocessor "Rufus preprocessor" and a "Rufus

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Squatting On Everything Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: John Beppu Title: Squatting On Everything Synopsis: Squatting is unique among web frameworks, because it has the ability to embed itself into other frameworks. This ability has been demonstrated with the Squatting::On::Catalyst module that shows that you can take a whole Squatting application and embed it directly into a Catalyst application. I'd like to expand Squatting's range by writing adapters for more frameworks and environments. Author John Beppu Title

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: CPAN Stability Project Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Michael G Schwern 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 Title CPAN Stability Project Synopsis The CPAN Stability

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Module Installation Configuration Wizard Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Michael G Schwern Title: Module Authoring Documentation Synopsis: Write documentation targeted specifically at Perl module authors using both Module::Build and MakeMaker. This includes basic authoring tutorials, information about XS and a cookbook for advanced issues. Specifically separate the documentation to address the different concerns. Also complete the author API documentation of both Module::Build and MakeMaker. Separate basic and advanced API information for easier reading. Author Michael G Schwern Title

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Single-file GUI-enabled executable Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Vadim Konovalov Title: single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and then for Linux w/o temporaries and dependencies Synopsis: Proposal is to make a distribution of Perl program with a single-file executable much like PAR approach but without any temporaries, thus having existing filesystem untouched in any way. This executable will include Tcl/Tk into it and all Perl and Tcl/Tk core scripts will be inside this executable and will be unpacked

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Hotel Perl Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Cristina Nunes Title: Hotel Perl Synopsis: A website where Perl mongers can: register and submit their vacant space to receive other Perl mongers traveling; search for a place to stay at another Perl monger's; announce they're looking for a place to stay at a given city/country Benefits to the Perl Community Better interaction between Perl mongers. Cut expenses when attending Perl events like conferences, workshops and/or social/technical monger meetings.

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Libperl++ Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Leon Timmermans Title: Libperl++ Synopsis: Currently embedding perl is too complicated. The API requires too much knowledge of internals to use and is too incompatible with other libraries Therefore I've started a project to ease the embedding of Perl. Though the code works, it is not ready for public consumption yet. In this proposal I want to make it ready for widespread adoption. Author Leon Timmermans Title Libperl++ Synopsis

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  • 2008Q3 Grant Proposal: Bavl Fri, 01-Aug-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Authors: John Beppu and Pip Stuart Title: Bavl Synopsis: Bavl is a Free web application for collaboratively learning how to comprehend speak foreign languages. At its core, it is a system for searching through a database of words, phrases, or lessons each accompanied by translations. However, instead of just presenting mere text back, each phrase also can have one or more audio recordings associated with it. This will let people

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  • White Camel Awards 2008 Wed, 30-Jul-2008 by Josh McAdams

    For ten years the Perl community has made it a point to recognize the many significant contributions made by the unsung heros of Perl. These volunteers often work behind the scenes, serving the community and contributing to the ongoing success of Perl. The White Camel award is intended to honor those who make noteworthy and ongoing non-technical contributions in benefit of the Perl community. This year we have three White

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  • Thanks to Booth Helpers Thu, 24-Jul-2008 by Jim Brandt

    I wanted to post a quick thanks to the folks helping out with the TPF booth this year. So thanks to ben hengst Jeff Lavallee, Uri, Josh, and all the other folks who took some time to make sure people got answers to their Perl questions. Jeff is a local and actually got permission from his manager to come down for just the day and man the booth.

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  • Perl on a Stick at OSCON Thu, 24-Jul-2008 by Jim Brandt

    As "reported recently":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/07/perl_on_a_stick_grant_update.html, Adam has made progress with his Perl on a Stick project. In fact, he's made enough progress that we're able to offer 1G USB drives loaded with "Strawberry Perl":http://strawberryperl.com/ here at OSCON for $15. We have them at the TPF Booth, so stop by and get one.

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  • TPF is at OSCON 2008 Mon, 21-Jul-2008 by Jim Brandt

    The Perl Foundation is at OSCON, so come join us. We'll be in the "Expo Hall":http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/expo-hall and we'll have some Perl items at the booth. If you'd like to help out and staff the booth, stop by or "sign up":http://oscon.kwiki.org/index.cgi?PerlFoundationBooth on the wiki. Look forward to seeing you.

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  • Perl on a Stick - Grant update Sat, 05-Jul-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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