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I'm happy to announce that Ricardo Signes has become the newest member of the Perl Foundation board. His is the first board appointment following the new, more public, selection process we recently announced. Thanks to Rik for agreeing to be the first to use this process and to the community for the comments and feedback following his nomination. We look forward to Rik's continued contributions to the Perl community, now ... read more |
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As has been announced previously, TPF is working on a process to allow for more public participation in adding new board members. I'm happy to present Ricardo Signes as our first new board candidate nominated with the new process. Ricardo is well known to the Perl community as a former pumpking and he offers some addition background in his bio below. Ricardo Signes spent four years studying philosophy and religion ... read more |
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After an amazing 17 years of serving The Perl Foundation in various roles, Kurt DeMaagd has stepped down from his board position. Kurt was one of the original founders of TPF in addition to being a founder of slashdot.org. As the original treasurer, Kurt set up all of the initial financial components of TPF, then known as Yet Another Society, and we have since distributed over $1 million in grant ... read more |
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As some readers may recall, I mentioned in a previous post that we were evaluating whether to maintain the Community Advocacy Committee. This announcement was enough to move Mark Prather to action. He wrote to me shortly after the blog post went up and asked what he could do to help keep this committee and its mission alive. The answer was become the new committee chair and I'm happy to ... read more |
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The first full day of OSCON sessions, the expo hall, and the hallway track was fun and interesting as always. The Perl Foundation has a great booth this year, right by the O'Reilly booth. We had a great day talking to Perl programmers new and veteran about what's new in the Perl community and in their Perl projects. It's also great to see that O'Reilly still shows the love for ... read more |