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 ... read more |
On May 14, 2008, The Perl Foundation received a philanthropic donation of US$200,000 from Ian Hague. Mr. Hague is a co-founder of Firebird Management LLC a financial fund management company based in New York City. This donation was the result of extensive discussions between Mr. Hague, The Perl Foundation and a Perl community member who wishes to remain anonymous. The purpose of the donation is to support the development of ... read more |
This is a reminder that the YAPC::NA 2009 "Call for Venue":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/03/yapcna_2009_call_for_venue.html will be closing in less than a month. If you plan on trying to host YAPC::NA 2009 and you haven't started on your bid, you'd better get to it! The deadline for submissions this year is June 1st ... read more |
To this post follows a set of posts with proposals received by the Perl Foundation grants committee during the second call for grant proposals for 2008. Although not usual, the rules of the TPF GC are changing and we hope to make this a rule. Proposals are accepted during one month and after that period, they are posted for public discussion on the Internet. This is important to make GC ... read more |