The "YAPC::NA schedule":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/schedule is up and the early bird pricing of $85 ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 2008. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references>. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is supporting the "Oslo QA Hackathon":http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Oslo_QA_Hackathon_2008 which is taking place this weekend. For past events, like "Chicago":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/11/chicago_perl_hackathon_a_rousi.html and "The Netherlands":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/03/european_perl_hackathon_result.html, we provided cash to cover costs. For Oslo, the organizers were set with the venue, but really wanted to bring in people from around the world. So we agreed to support the hackathon with some directed travel grants to David Golden and brian foy. brian is blogging ... read more |
If you're a frequent visitor, you may have noticed that the blog lost some of the right-hand links and resources for a while. A recent Movable Type upgrade scrambled things for a bit, but I think I've got it sorted out now. My complete lack of familiarity with MT made this much more difficult than it probably should have been, but I now know much more about MT than I ... read more |
Welcome, once again, to the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call For Venue! The 2009 YAPC::NA marks the 10th anniversary for YAPC. Wow, 10 years of YAPC! This year we've decided to try something a little different. After some discussion and feedback, we've decided to take an approach similar to YAPC::EU. We're putting out the request for bids now, with a June 1 deadline. This gives the Conferences Committee ... read more |
During the last month the Grants Committee changed its composition. Two members stepped out as their professional affairs did not leave time to do a good job at this committee. To them, Hugo van der Sanden and Stas Bekman our sincere thanks for all their dedication during the last years. Two new members stepped in. They are Will "Coke" Coleda and Perrin Harkins For them our welcomes, and good work ... read more |
I'm happy to announce we've successfully concluded our recent call for new people to fill several vacant positions in TPF. Our newest members are: Karen Pauley, Steering Committee Chair Josh McAdams, Public Relations Jeremy Fluhmann, Conferences Committee Chair We're very excited to have some new people bring their energy and ideas to the table. I'd also like to thank Andy Lester, our outgoing PR person, for all of his PR ... read more |
Yesterday, TPF received word from Google that our submission to be a participating organization in the 2008 Google Summer of Code project was accepted. Our thanks to everyone involved in the application process, but especially to Eric Wilhelm who organized and drove the effort. We will provide more details here soon. ... read more |
As reported on the "YAPC::NA site":http://yapc.org/America, the call for participation has been extended. The original closing date was March 15, but some people asked for an extension and seemed only fair to share the extension with everyone. The new deadline is March 31, 2008. ... read more |
First, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not even particularly well versed in all of the issues surrounding open source licensing, the Artistic License, and copyright law. However, I am a member of The Perl Foundation and part of our mission is to support both versions of the Artistic License. As many readers of this blog already know, there is a court case in the federal district court in San ... read more |
The yapc.org site is now re-registered and available again. Actually, it was back up yesterday but with DNS caching it was hard to get to the real site if you'd already tried earlier Sorry for any inconvenience. ... read more |
If you've recently surfed over to yapc.org, you'll notice you're not getting the home page you expect. The domain inadvertently expired and we're currently working on renewing it. It turns out the reminders were going to an inactive email account. We're "not the first":http://www.whoisfinder.com/news/200402/washpost-renewal-failure.html to miss a renewal, but it's an inconvenience nonetheless. In the meantime, many of the upcoming Perl events are hosted via Act!, and they keep links ... read more |
Parrot releases continue to come out once a month. Version 0.5.2 was released in January. The highlight of 0.5.2 for many is surely the inclusion of a perl6 make target, meaning that you can now take a Parrot release and make yourself a Perl 6 binary in just three easy steps: tar -xvzf parrot-x.x.x.tar.gz cd parrot-x.x.x perl ./Configure.pl make perl6 The end result is a perl6 binary that you can ... read more |
This is a reminder that we plan on closing the open self-nomination period for the TPF Steering Committee Chair, Conference Committee Chair, and PR positions tomorrow. If you're on the fence, it's time to decide. Again, to participate, send me email at cbrandt at perlfoundation dot org and I'll send you an invite to the elections wiki we have set up. ... read more |