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  • The Perl Foundation is at OSCON Wed, 25-Jul-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Got a question about The Perl Foundation Want to volunteer some time for The Perl Foundation? Come see us on the floor in the Expo Hall at OSCON We're right next to the massage booth!

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  • ProhibitComplexMapping Policy Released Sun, 15-Jul-2007 by Rosellyne Thompson
    in: Grants

    It gives me great pleasure to announce that Chris Dolan's Policies for Perl::Critic grant awarded April 07, is now underway. Chris intends to add twenty policies that are inspired by Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices to Perl::Critic to help developers to make their code more maintainable. Chris has written the first of the twenty policies funded by the grant, Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitComplexMapping, which insists that the block argument to map has at

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  • Parrot Grant Update - May and June Wed, 11-Jul-2007 by Dave Rolsky
    in: Grants

    May and June saw the usual monthly releases of Parrot, 0.4.12 and 0.4.13. Between these two releases, there were numerous language updates, including PHP and Lisp. On the Perl 6 front, 0.4.13 was the first release where Parrot passed the Perl 6 sanity tests. This is an exciting achievement, because it means that Parrot supports enough of Perl 6 that the developers can start using Perl 6 to bootstrap its

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  • Reminder: Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2008 deadline Wed, 11-Jul-2007 by Jim Brandt

    The deadline for submitting your venue bids for this year is approaching. I know there are some folks out there working on bids, so don't count on us going into overtime. The due date is August 1. You can find more details in this year's call and the previous call

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  • New TPF Community Relations Leader Tue, 10-Jul-2007 by Bill Odom

    After four years of excellent work behind the scenes of pm.org Dave Cross has decided to step down and take a well-deserved rest. Thanks, Dave! Stepping into Dave's role is José Castro, already well-known to many in our community as cog José will be leading a team charged with helping to establish and nurture Perl Mongers groups throughout the world. There are already a number of projects under way, and

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  • A new wiki for Perl 5 Tue, 10-Jul-2007 by Bill Odom

    The irrepressible Michael Schwern has launched a new wiki devoted to all things Perl 5, and has invited everyone to contribute: Perl 5 needs a place to collect its community knowledge which is currently scattered around in penny packets on perl mongers sites, scads of perl.org hosts, mailing list archives, man pages and books. This sort of thing is handled well by a wiki. Perl 5 now has one: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/

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  • A trio of Perl 6 microgrants Thu, 05-Jul-2007 by Bill Odom

    Three more Perl 6 Microgrants have been awarded! Jesse Vincent of Best Practical writes: Flavio Glock will receive a travel microgrant to help him attend YAPC::EU and evangelize kp6 and the Perl 6 in Perl 6 effort. Steve Pritchard will receive a microgrant to complete the RPM packaging of Parrot and Pugs for Fedora, and to submit those packages for inclusion in the official Fedora distribution. Steve will be blogging

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  • Help Wanted: Some Hacking on a Google Calendar Script Fri, 29-Jun-2007 by Jim Brandt

    This is an easy one. I need a script to grab conference event data from the Perl community Google calendar. I've got it started, but it needs some polishing. If you're interested, email me and I'll send you what I've got so far

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  • Parrot and Perl 6 wikis moved to perlfoundation.org Fri, 29-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    For a year or two now, I've hosted the Perl 6 and Parrot wikis on my home server, on a not-too-fast DSL line, at rakudo.org. They've now been moved to the wiki infrastructure at perlfoundation.org, on a dedicated box. This means much better performance, so if you've tried the wikis before and found them slow, check them out now. The moved wiki workspaces are: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/ Perl 6 http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/ Parrot http://www.perlfoundation.org/hackathon-chicago/

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  • Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2007 announced Mon, 25-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is a low-cost technical conference held at the University Center on Carnegie Mellon University's Oakland Campus The workshop will be held on October 13–14 2007 You can sign up for the announcement mailing list at Google Groups 06/22/07 Announcing PPW 2007 October 13,14 2007 The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers are pleased to announce The PITTSBURGH PERL WORKSHOP 2007, a two-day, low-cost

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  • Perl 6 & Parrot Essentials now available as project documentation Wed, 20-Jun-2007 by Bill Odom

    Allison Randal informs us that she has "...just signed an agreement with O'Reilly that assigns the full copyright in the book Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials to The Perl Foundation. The text is out-of-date, but can be updated much more rapidly than it can be rewritten from scratch." The contents of the book will soon be available via the perl.org Subversion server Many thanks to O'Reilly for this generous gift

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  • Parrot 0.4.13 "Clifton" released Wed, 20-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.13 "Clifton." Parrot parrotcode.org is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.13 can be obtained via CPAN or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html Parrot 0.4.13 News: Languages: Updated Lisp, Lua, PHP Python ABC, WMLScript, and Tcl Perl 6 passes all of the sanity tests. PGE supports latest Perl 6 grammar syntax.

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  • Parrot Bug Day, June 16th 2007 Tue, 12-Jun-2007 by Andy Lester

    On Saturday, 16 June 2007, please join us on IRC in #parrot to work on closing out as many RT tickets as possible in the parrot queue https://rt.perl.org/rt3/ This will help us get ready for the next release of parrot: 0.4.13, scheduled for Tuesday 19 June 2007. You'll find C, Parrot assembly, Perl, documentation, and plenty of tasks to go around. Core developers will be available most of the day

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  • Parrot Grant Update - February, March, and April Fri, 11-May-2007 by Dave Rolsky

    Since this update is so late, I'm taking the liberty of covering three months of Parrot work, rather than two. That means this report covers February through end of April of 2007. Parrot has been sticking to its new monthly release schedule, which means that we saw three releases in this grant period, 0.4.9, 0.4.10, and 0.4.11. The highlight of this period is the finalization of the object design marking

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  • Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2008 Thu, 10-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    It's that time of year again--we need your bids in to host YAPC::NA in your town next summer. Most of the details for a bid are in my post from last year To re-iterate a few points: If you plan on bidding, folks from your group should really attend YAPC::NA this year to see how things work and maybe even help out. Get your bid ready early and we'll give

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  • Calls For Proposals Tue, 08-May-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Because we're running a little late this time, submission deadline is June 8, 2007, voting starts immediately after. We will be awarding the grants by the beginning of July. Voting usually goes fairly quickly, so we don't anticipate a problem. First, please

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  • XML::RSS Cleanup Grant Completed - Final Report Wed, 02-May-2007 by Rosellyne Thompson
    in: Grants

    I am pleased to announce that Shlomi Fish has completed his XML::RSS cleanup grant In his own words, Shlomi has summarised the work he's done and offers his thanks to those who helped him transform XML::RSS into a high quality tool for the community: This is a summary of a Perl Foundation XML::RSS grant, I've been doing. Its scope was for two or three months from 1 January, 2007 onwards,

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  • Help Wanted: SOAP::Lite Wed, 02-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Here's my first Help Wanted entry. SOAP::Lite needs your help. Byrne Reese has posted a good assessment of the state of the SOAP::Lite Read on for details. To start, SOAP::Lite works. That is, it works well for easy things and you can get it to work for complicated things. But it needs help and it's going to need more help in the near future. SOAP is becoming more and more

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  • Help Wanted: Perl Coding Needed Wed, 02-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    I often hear this: "I'd get involved in Perl, but all the cool stuff is done and there's no room to make a name for myself. No one needs another DBI module..." or even: "All the cool kids are using because they don't have CPAN yet and they can become the uber-programmer for the cool modules." Well, to these I say, "Nonsense!" There is a ton of work to be

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  • White Camel nominations for 2007 now open Thu, 26-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester

    It's a new year and time for the White Camel process to begin. The White Camel awards are given each year at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention by The Perl Foundation for community-oriented, rather than technical, contributions to Perl. The list of previous winners goes back to 1999. The nomination process is open to the public, and we welcome your involvement. If there's someone who's served to make Perl better,

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  • Running Perl on your Apple TV Tue, 17-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester
    in: Projects

    Hackszine.com has an article about how to run Perl programs on your Apple TV so that you can have little menu options to look up the weather and whatnot.

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  • Hackathon Toronto is April 28, 2007 Wed, 11-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester

    James Keenan writes: Toronto Perl Mongers are pleased to announce Hackathon Toronto a one- day, almost-spur-of-the-moment hackathon, to be held Saturday, April 28, 2007. A hackathon is a gathering of free and open source software developers reflecting the joy of collective hacking. Building on the tradition of previous Perl hackathons in Toronto, Chicago and elsewhere, Hackathon Toronto will encourage people to come together for face-to-face work on Perl 5, Perl

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  • Perl Events, Great and Small Tue, 10-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    There are so many Perl events around the world now that I thought I'd take a shot at categorizing how they all relate to one another. I thought this might help people thinking about attending something for the first time, people thinking about presenting something and also people thinking about organizing an event. For people thinking about becoming more involved in the Perl community, this presents a sort of ladder

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  • Phil Crow to create JDBC API for Perl 6 Sat, 07-Apr-2007 by Andy Lester

    From Jesse Vincent and Leon Brocard: We're pleased to announce that we've selected Phil Crow as the recipient of the second Perl 6 microgrant. Phil is the hacker behind the Java::Swing module that allows Perl programmers to put a Java Swing GUI on their application without writing any Java and he'll be using this knowledge to convert Java declarations to Perl 6. You can find details of the project he's

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  • Planet YAPC Fri, 06-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    With so many Perl events going on around the world, I often wish I could take a quick peek to see what's going on at each one. I watch the conference sites and wikis when I can and I watch use.perl, but not everyone posts info there. I think what I really want is a planet yapc aggregator like planet perl that could pull in blogs tagged with pre-arranged tags.

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  • YAPC::Europe::2008 Call for Venue Thu, 05-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Just announced Note that based on our schedule, the call for venue for YAPC::NA will be coming soon as well. With preparations for YAPC::Europe::2007 well underway in Vienna, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee to consider suitable hosts for the 2008 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe::2008 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org A full and complete application should then be sent to

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  • YAPC::NA Registration Open with Act Mon, 02-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    In case you haven't seen it elsewhere registration for YAPC::NA is now open One really cool part about this is that it takes the Act! -hosted conference site to the next point of integration, which is accepting payments through the Perl Foundation's payment site This fulfills a large part of my call last year for a conference system I mentioned that Act was a start, but it wasn't open-source and

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  • New Grant Awards Sun, 01-Apr-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce two new grant awards. The first is adding new policies to Perl::Critic. The second is improving the Smolder project. Note that the second project involves the TAP::Parser module This was a project I started, currently maintained on the CPAN by Andy Armstrong This is slated to be the replacement for Test::Harness. Because we're seeing more grant applications involving this module, I have decided

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  • Mango Grant Update Sun, 01-Apr-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Here are the latest update from the Mango grant. As a side note, we're working on a new process for getting grant information out even faster than we currently do If everyone signs off, this information should be much more timely. Update 1 I finally got desperate enough to find a solution I could live with after rolling my own config file format. So, I managed to convert the admin/roles/users

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  • First Perl 6 microgrant announced Mon, 26-Mar-2007 by Andy Lester

    From Jesse Vincent Leon Brocard: We're pleased to announce that we've selected Steve Peters as the recipient of the first Perl 6 microgrant. Steve has been instrumental in helping to ensure that Perl 5 has stayed incredibly portable for the past few years. Steve's starting to turn some of his attention to Parrot. You can find details of the project he's planning in the text of his grant application:

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  • Adam Kennedy's Refactoring Editor Grant Sun, 25-Mar-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    First off, let's get the bad news out of the way. Here's Adam's final report on the PPI refactoring editor: It is with some sadness I think I will have to finally draw a line under this effort and consider it over. Without the appearance of a pure-Perl cross-platform programmer's text editor on the CPAN, I don't see how I can complete the proof of concept. The entire grant was

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  • European Perl Hackathon Results Thu, 22-Mar-2007 by Jim Brandt

    The first European Perl Hackathon has successfully concluded. They ended up with 16 registered attendees from 6 different countries. Read on for more details. The total cost to The Perl Foundation was 468.71 euros, and you can read about what they got done on the successes page Work was done on Parrot, Perl, Act, CPAN6, and a few other things. You can find some additional info here: Flickr Spaanse Filosoof

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  • Best Practical sponsors Perl 6 Microgrants Thu, 22-Mar-2007 by Bill Odom

    Best Practical and TPF are pleased to announce the inaugural Perl 6 Microgrants program. Best Practical Solutions has donated USD5,000 to The Perl Foundation to help support Perl 6 Development. Leon Brocard, representing TPF's Grants Committee, will work with Jesse Vincent, Perl 6 Project Manager to select proposals and evaluate project success. We'll be making USD500 grants to worthy Perl 6-related efforts. We're hoping to fund a range of Perl

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  • TPF and SoC 2007 Tue, 20-Mar-2007 by Bill Odom

    A few people have raised questions about TPF's lack of involvement in this year's Google Summer of Code wondering if TPF simply decided not to participate, or if there was more to the story. There is, and I hope this post will help answer the questions. The short version: We submitted an application to be a mentoring organization, but we weren't accepted. The longer version starts back in 2005, when

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  • Parrot Grant Update - December, 2006 and January, 2007 Mon, 05-Mar-2007 by Dave Rolsky

    Here's the latest grant update as sent to NLNet The 0.4.8 release Parrot marked the completion of a design milestone, the IO PDD. This is a major accomplishment, as the design work on IO impacts much of Parrot's design, including areas such as concurrency and networking. This work was completed by Allison with help and review by Jerry Gay. The next area Allison will be focusing on is the object

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  • Grant Updates Tue, 20-Feb-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Desperately trying to catch up with everything needed for the grant committee and am getting around to posting grant updates for Ingy and Chris Laco. For Ingy's "Port PyYAML to Perl" grant: Ingy's not been able to make much progress over the last month due to other commitments, but is now back in the saddle. He's aiming to do the the libyaml bindings first. This will likely get us to

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  • Haskell book available on wikibooks Mon, 12-Feb-2007 by Jim Brandt

    I was checking out Wikibooks today and noticed that one of the "hot picks" is a wikibook on Haskell Looks like it might be a good way to get your feet wet and maybe help out the Perl 6 development effort.

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  • Grants: Calls for Proposals Fri, 02-Feb-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Submission deadline is the last day of February, voting starts in March and we will be awarding the grants by the beginning of April. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read that carefully as grants are often rejected if

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  • European Perl Hackathon Fri, 02-Feb-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Details are now available for the European Perl Hackathon in Arnhem, the Netherlands, from 2 4 March, 2007. Space is limited for this one and it's coming up soon, so don't wait if you're interested. From the organizers: Familiarity with the featured projects is not required; you need only bring a laptop and a willingness to join in. Although there is no fee to attend the hackathon, you are required

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  • Time to prepare your presentations Mon, 29-Jan-2007 by Jim Brandt

    It's the time of year to gather up all the cool stuff you've been working on and get it ready to show everyone else. The calls are out there for several conferences right now: YAPC::Asia Nordic Perl Workshop YAPC::NA YAPC::EU OSCON Wow, that's a lot of Perl to talk about.

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  • A Conference Toolkit (ACT) Goes Open Source Fri, 26-Jan-2007 by Jim Brandt

    A while ago I blogged that I really wanted a Perl-based conference toolkit that YAPCs and other conferences could use so they didn't spend time hacking on the website when they should be organizing the conference. Well, the folks who work on ACT have been working to fulfill some of the items I presented and earlier today they officially announced that it is open source with a dual GPL/Artistic license.

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  • Grant Updates Tue, 23-Jan-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    We have two grant updates this time. Adam Kennedy's "Extending PPI Towards a Refactoring Perl Editor" has no new news to report. This grant is currently stalled. Shlomi Fish's work on "XML::RSS Cleanup", however, is going quite well. Read on for more information. Well, I wrote two use.perl.org journal entries about XML-RSS that detail some of my progress: http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32081 http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32121 What's been accomplished: 1. Moving the data files from under

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  • Mango Grant Update Thu, 04-Jan-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Chris Laco's Mango grant application work was delayed slightly, but he's now starting on it. Below is his latest grant update, as collected by his grant manager, Adrian Howard. Well, it's that time of year. Time to pay the piper. Handel 1.0 and Handel-Storage-RDBO 0.01 are in a holding pattern waiting for releases of DBIC and RDBO, but they're done. Time to get the Mango train rolling. Done: setup

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  • Grants Awards Thu, 04-Jan-2007 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Grant vote results are in and one grant was awarded. The first Perl Foundation grant of 2007 has been award to Shlomi Fish for resolving outstanding issues in XML::RSS Shlomi has worked with Ask Bjørn Hansen, the module's maintainer, to resolve some bugs in it in the past and now plans to tackle the rest of the work. Rosellyn Thompson is the grant manager assigned to this grant. Below is

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  • Perl Hackathons Gaining Steam Wed, 27-Dec-2006 by Jim Brandt

    It seems the Chicago hackathon organized by Andy Lester and Pete Krawczyk and sponsored by the Perl Foundation has sparked some interest from other groups. We think these events are a great way to support Perl, use your donations effectively, and keep things rolling on various active projects. Now we need some ideas on how we should keep things going. I think hackathons will largely be regional events. This is

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  • Parrot Grant Update - October and November Wed, 20-Dec-2006 by Dave Rolsky

    Here's the latest grant update as sent to NLNet During October and November, Allison has continued working on the PDD for IO, which she hopes to finish soon. Parrot 0.4.7 was released on November 14th. This release includes design work on bytecode files, embedding, concurrency, and objects. The bytecode file PDD is complete, and is beginning to be implemented. There has been significant design and implementation work on the Perl6

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  • Save the date: New England Perl Workshop, March 10, 2007 Wed, 13-Dec-2006 by Andy Lester

    This just in from the Boston Perl Mongers Boston.pm will be presenting the inaugural "New England Perl Workshop" at Northeastern University on Saturday, March 10th, 2007. We are following in the tradition of the Pittsburgh, London, and Nordic Perl workshops in having two tracks of talks with opportunities to socialize. We're also hoping to include a hackathon. We hope to draw a mix of interested participants from New England and

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  • Parrot bug day is December 16, 2006 Tue, 12-Dec-2006 by Andy Lester

    Parrot ’s first ever Bug Day is this Saturday, 16 December 2006. The core Parrot developers will be in #parrot on irc.perl.org all day to: Review tickets in the Parrot RT queue Answer questions from newcomers Fix bugs Add features Improve the documentation or tests or… Recruit and encourage new developers If you’re curious about Parrot, please join us. You don’t have to be an expert programmer. If you can

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  • Grant Information Update Thu, 07-Dec-2006 by Curtis "Ovid" Poe
    in: Grants

    Sorry this hasn't been updated lately. Our company is shutting down their offices and I have to move to London. Needless to say, my life has been in a bit of a turmoil as I try to get things sorted out Now, on with the grant update: Christopher Laco's Mango grant is being postponed until January. We're still waiting on an update regarding Ingy dot Net's grant to port PyYAML

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  • Lightning talks in Omaha Mon, 04-Dec-2006 by Andy Lester
    in: Meetings

    Robert Fulkerson sends notice of a set of a Perl lightning talks in Omaha, NE, on December 5th at 6pm. "Everyone's invited to come visit the UNO CSCI 2850 class's semester-ending lightning talks. This semester's talks are in room 256 at the Peter Kiewit Institute at 67th Pacific. They'll start at 6 PM and last until 7:30. Unfortunately, we don't have any funding so there won't be any drinks or

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