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  • YAPC|10 Mon, 16-Mar-2009 by Josh McAdams

    The dates and pricing for the "tenth annual YAPC::NA":http://yapc10.org/yn2009 have been announced. This year's conference will be held at at "Carnegie Mellon University":http://www.cmu.edu/ in Pittsburgh, PA on from June 22nd through June 24th. Registration is open with early bird pricing happening now. Also, "the call for papers":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/cfp.html is open through Friday, 24 April 2009. The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference with its roots in the

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  • Padre and Parrot integration grant cancelled Sun, 15-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Gabor grant on integrating Padre and Parrot was cancelled. Gabor explains why in his blog Note that this does not mean that this integration will not be done, or that TPF will not fund it. It just means that at this point Gabor does not have the time to deliver the grant on time.

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  • Running Grants (2009-V) Sat, 07-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: YAML::Perl is really coming together. Over 95% of the code is ported. I only port code once I have a failing test written to exercise that code. Just need to figure out how to tickle the other 5%. I plan on putting a big push in this weekend to get a release candidate version of YAML::Perl onto CPAN. The

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  • Conference Season Thu, 05-Mar-2009 by Karen Pauley

    I used to think that there was a conference season and that it took place in the summer. Now in the Perl world we have so many grass-root events taking place that the whole year is our conference season. So far this year we have already had "Perl Oasis":http://perloasis.org/opw2009/ in Orlando, "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2009/ in Minneapolis, the "Bulgarian Perl Workshop":http://event.perlbulgaria.org/sofia2009/, the "German Perl Workshop":http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009/index.html, and the "Belgian Perl Workshop":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/. Today the

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  • 2009Q1 Grants Results Mon, 02-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    These are the results for the first round of 2009 grants requests: Rejected Proposals: CPAN::Forum development Codewalker Interactive Perl Interpreter Awareness and Utilization of Perl in Nigeria: A Survey OPener Chat OPener Package Inline C++/CLI Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Funded proposals: Improving learn.perl.org, by Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Web.pm a lightweight web framework for Perl 6, by Ilya Belikin, Carl Mäsak and Stephen Weeks Still

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  • Running Grants (2009 - IV) Sun, 22-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Follows the fourth grants updates report. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan has finished adding support for archives with unicode filenames on Windows, and is now tackling the Perl side, making it possible to create archives with unicode filenames in them. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith No updates. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern No updates. "Perl cross-compilation

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  • SMOP Grant Final Report Thu, 19-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Project: Simple Meta Object Programming Grantee: Daniel Ruoso Grant Manager Jeff Horwitz Started: August, 2008 Finished: February, 2009 Follows the conclusion report, by Daniel Ruoso. Ok, I'll try to summarize what happened in the last 7 months We're actually in a point where it's not worth writing any other types in C. The amount of abstractions already demands us to write the built-in types in Perl 6, and there is

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  • Running Grants (2009 - III) Sat, 07-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Follows the third grants updates report. This time at Saturday, as yesterday was Grants Proposals day. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy moved recently for Europe. He expects to deliver news really soon. "SMOP":http://www.perlfoundation.org/smop_simple_meta_object_programming Daniel Ruoso No update. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan added Unicode support under Windows to extractTree and addTree. Now, he is trying to get other methods to support

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposals Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Is that time again. The deadline for grant proposals submissions ended six days ago, and now they are available for comment during a week. Please use each proposal post to comment about that project. Please do not post with simple messages as "I like it", or "+1". If you like it, state why you do. That is what will help us voting, not just another person name associated to the

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Improving learn.perl.org Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Revamp the learn.perl.org website to be more inviting to new users of Perl by creating a new series of articles which form a coherent and fun tutorial arc. Benefits to the Perl Community The learn.perl.org site should be a welcoming, fun, and educational experience for new users, complete with exciting projects and straightforward instructions to make it easier to

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Awareness and Utilization of Perl in Nigeria: A Survey Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Peter Odigie. Email: Where we can contact you! Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $2500 Synopsis A short description. A survey to capture the awareness and use of perl by IT workers in the Nigerian public and private sector. Benefits to the Perl Community Why should the Perl Community grant this project? Nigeria is the biggest country in Africa with a lot of business opportunities. What happens

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Pod Mangling Utility Improvements Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Ricardo Signes Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis This grant is for the completion of design and implementation of basic versions of three pieces of software currently under development: Pod::Elemental Pod::Weaver Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver All three modules exist and have been in use by a number of people for some time. The main thrust of the grant is to improve the usability and reliability of Pod::Weaver. Pod::Weaver is one of the key

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Interactive Perl Interpreter Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Erik Osheim Email: Amount Requested: $1000 Synopsis This project aims to build an interactive interpreter for Perl. The goals of this project are to allow pasted Perl code to run line-by-line as it would be in a Perl script, provide tab completion and introspection at least equal to that provided by the Perl debugger, to provide documentation and packaging, and lastly a package to help with introspection. Benefits to

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: OPener Chat Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    dl> Name: Wang Lei Email: Amount Requested: 2000USD Synopsis Opener Chat is a kind of multi-user and multi-protocol online communication software which is like Pidgin Opener Chat is completely written in Perl which consists of the graphical interface part and net part. We use the module of win32::GUI to carry its interface into effect, so this software can only run on the win32 platform. This project has started a period

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: OPener Package Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Wang Lei Email: Amount Requested: 3000USD Synopsis Opener package is a kind of software for the development of Windows installers which purpose is to make easily issued installers. It is like NSIS, but the main goal of the Opener package is to make installers which program in Perl. Opener package need to use Par to carry into effect. We use Par to package the executed files. We have already

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