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  • Grant Report : Robust Perl 6 Unicode Support - September 2017 Sat, 02-Sep-2017 by Mark A Jensen

    In her excellent overview of Unicode presented at YAPC-EU, Samantha gives us her take on Perl6 Unicode: “Torture the implementers for the sake of the users.” Perl6 Unicode users will certainly have some wonderfully easy access to deep Unicode magic thanks to her work. But reading her blog, I get a distinct impression of delight, rather than torture... In her complete blog post, she describes, among other details: Implementation of

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  • July 2017 Grant Votes Tue, 29-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2017 round. There was one proposal in this round. Complete YAML::PP Complete YAML::PP Voting results: 8 Yes votes, and 1 abstention with a score of 40 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Tina's previous work in this area and enthusiasm were mentioned. Next Round Our next round will be in September; we've been running a little late in

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  • Unicode membership Tue, 22-Aug-2017 by Dan Wright

    I'm pleased to report that The Perl Foundation has renewed its associate level membership in the Unicode Consortium. This membership allows Perl core developers to be on the "inside track" when it comes to the future of Unicode standards. It also gives them access to documents and people that have made the development of Unicode support in Perl easier. The Perl Foundation is pleased to be able to make this

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  • Hotel rooms and The Perl Conference Thu, 10-Aug-2017 by Dan Wright

    In an effort to improve transparency, we have recently released a finance report for The Perl Conference in Alexandria One of the major expenses in this report was for hotel attrition. In this news article, I will explain what hotel attrition is and what TPF is doing to respond to it. In the early days of "YAPC" the conference was held on college campuses in North America. Typically a number

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  • Grant Report : Robust Perl 6 Unicode Support - August 2017 Wed, 09-Aug-2017 by Mark A Jensen
    in: Grants

    The inchstones are falling like 1F030—1F09F as Samantha makes further progress on her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: Implementation of a fully working Unicode Collation Algorithm with only 82 of 190,377 tests failing 100% of Emoji 4.0 emoji are treated as a single grapheme, enabling MoarVM to advertise full Unicode 9.0/Emoji 4.0 text segmentation support.

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  • May 2017 Grant Votes; Part 2 Wed, 09-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Let me start out by apologizing for the delay in this posting, it's highly overdue; the question of whether or not funding was available turned out to be slightly more complicated than anyone anticipated.... As previously posted, one grant was posted in this period: Revitalize blogs.perl.org Voting results were: 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 0, Abstain, No. This resulted in a an approval status, and I'm happy to announce the

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  • Grant Proposal: Complete YAML::PP Mon, 07-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by August 14th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately one week after public comments. Complete YAML::PP Name:

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  • Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): Grant Report for May/June 2017 Fri, 04-Aug-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. May report Approximately 12 tickets were reviewed. 0.57 in @INC follow-up for File::Fetch #11 1.98 #128207 debugging #128207 more debugging, comment 0.53 #130591 review discussion, provide updated patch 0.17 #131000 review discussion 1.31 #131062 work on a

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  • Kurt DeMaagd Stepping Down from TPF Board Fri, 04-Aug-2017 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Grant Extension Approved: Dave Mitchell Perl 5 Core Thu, 03-Aug-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance

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  • TPC::NA 2017 Finance Report Thu, 03-Aug-2017 by Dan Wright

    This report is being provided to the Perl community in an effort to improve transparency. The Perl Conference 2017 was held at the US Patent and Trademark office in Alexandria, VA from June 18th through Saturday June 23rd, 2017. Total attendance was 245. This marks the second year in a row that attendance was below 250. The total expenses for this event were $93,769, which is lower than recent years.

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  • Perl 5 Core Grant Approved: Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 Core Wed, 02-Aug-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    I am pleased to announce that the TPF Board of Directors approved the grant proposal Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 Core. This will allow him to dedicate 200 hours to the work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Zefram's work will benefit the community.

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (July 2017 Round) Tue, 01-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and conclude acceptance

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  • May 2017 Grant Votes Tue, 01-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2017 round There was one proposal in this round, which was approved. I am currently working with the treasurer to verify funding. Voting results: 6 Yes votes, 1 No Vote, and 1 abstention with a score of 24 Big thanks to André Walker for his patience as I become accustomed to the GC workflow. I am very hopeful that funding

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  • Grant Extension Approved: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering Mon, 31-Jul-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    Jonathan Worthington's request to extend Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering by $10,000 has been approved. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Jonathan's work will continue to benefit the community.

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  • brian d foy's travel grant is completed Sun, 30-Jul-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    brian d foy reported that his grant is completed. brian gave us a list of talks/movies as follows: Amsterdam.pm on June 8 French Perl Workshop on June 10 London.pm on June 29 PerlTricks.com article I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible, all the people who gave us feedback on this grant, and brian, who delivered the quality results. I am personally looking forward to brian's talk at NY.pm, which

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  • What did I get myself into? Fri, 14-Jul-2017 by trog
    in: Meetings

    Too Long need Limerick: There once was a Trog in Houston He saw a committee being reduced in Now he's a chair and full of despair He needs people introduced in. If you didn't happen to make it to the TPC this year and see one of the cutest lightening talks this year, this may come as news to you. There is still a Community Advocacy Committee. For those who

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  • Grant Report : Robust Perl 6 Unicode Support - July 2017 Sun, 09-Jul-2017 by Mark A Jensen

    Samantha continues to address the addition of Unicode features and long-standing Unicode bugs in her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: the Unicode collation algorithm in a very readable overview, and her improvements to enable customizable collation at all three main collation levels support for the Prepend property in code that avoids grapheme breaking, leading to increases in

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  • Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report Thu, 06-Jul-2017 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    In the The Perl Conference month, Chad reports some improvements in the documentation, that is available at http://test-more.github.io/Test2-Manual/, with some new sections. He also used this manual to give two presentations at YAPC.

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  • Perl 6 Travel Grant Approved Tue, 04-Jul-2017 by Makoto Nozaki
    in: Grants

    brian d foy's Perl 6 Travel Grant Proposal has been approved. The payment will be made after Presentation at Amsterdam.pm and London.pm Slides are published Articles are published based on the talks Recorded presentation is published Thank you for those who gave us valuable feedback and thank you for the TPF donors for making it happen.

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