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Christopher Laco on Mango Grant: It has been over two years since I received a grant from the TPF to start work on Mango. What started as a fast paced 3 month project has turned into a 2 year project that has come to crawl. At this point in time, the TPF and I agree that it is best to label this project as 'done as-is' so the grant manager ... read more |
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This is the third biweekly report. These are the news on currently running grants: Mango Christopher Laco This grant will be closed in the next few days, and a report published here. Porting PyYAML to Perl Ingy döt Net Ingy gave some updates on his grant. YAML::XS is completed, and a pure Perl implementation is being started. A new deadline was defined: Christmas 2008. Improving Smolder Michael Peters As said ... read more |
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Apologies for the long delay in this report, I've had some ongoing health problems over the summer. Allison wrote this report to bring us up-to-date, and then we'll continue with the two-monthly schedule. Parrot releases continue on their monthly schedule. The 0.6.0 release in March reflected major improvements to both the Parrot VM and the Perl 6 implementation on Parrot The most notable change for Parrot was the implementation of ... read more |
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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 cross-compilation for linux and wince":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_perl_cro.html "Barcode support in Act":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_barcode.html "Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_tcltk_ac.html "Embedding perl into C++ applications":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_libperl.html "Extending BSDPAN":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_extendin.html Follow the proposals that, although accepted, will not ... read more |
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Hi. This is the second biweekly report for August. These are the news on the running grants: Mango Christopher Laco No updates/feedback. Porting PyYAML to Perl Ingy döt Net No updates/feedback. Improving Smolder Michael Peters No updates. Still waiting for a conclusion report. Perl on a Stick Adam Kennedy Accordingly with Adam's blog "I'm happy to report that phase 2 of the Perl on a Stick grant is now completed." ... read more |