TPF Board has received a new grant application as below. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. Perl 6 Travel Grant Name: brian d foy Amount Requested: $2,500 Synopsis I'm passing through Europe in June and can extend my trip on either side to

The Perl Conference, 2017 will be held this year in Washington DC, at the US Patent and Trademark Office, from June 18 through June 23rd. This is the conference that many of us have affectionately known as YAPC::NA::17. If you haven't registered yet, please do so as soon as possible. We want to make sure we're providing the best possible experience for our participants, and to that end, accurate registration

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 June 2nd UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by June 12th.

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: Fixd require's "Can't locate" error message so that it only mentions @INC if @INC was actually searched, and only gives the "you may need to install" hint if the filename maps to a

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

The Perl Foundation is excited to have a booth at OSCON again this year. As part of our booth information and outreach we've put together a summary of some of the activities in the Perl world from 2016. Perl 5 The Perl 5 teams continued the steady release of new versions of Perl 5 with the release of 5.24 in 2016. This release included enhancements to regular expressions, Unicode 8.0

Chad Granun has been working on his Test2 documentation grant, sharing the time with a new family member Although there are not big changes on the documentation, itself, Chad has been working on an update to the Event API for Test2. That is now almost complete, he will soon put it out for trial, and then stable. Once released he will be able to move back to Test2-Manual where he

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round: Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support… Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support in Rakudo on MoarVM Voting results: 6 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 21 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Sam's previous contributions in this area make her likely to succeed in making marked

Zoffix Znet provided this report on April 19, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the April, 2017 progress report for Timing As proposed to and approved by the Grant Manager, I've extended the due date for this grant by 1 extra month, in exchange for doing some extra optimization work on IO routines at no extra cost. The new completion date is May 22nd; right

This is a grant report by Jonathan Worthington on his grant under Perl 6 Core Development Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I have completed the second 200 hours of my grant, funded by the Perl 6 core development fund. This report summarizes the work done during those 200 hours. In accordance with community feedback, the vast majority of effort has been put into reliability

Work on the blogs.perl.org grant, started in November 2015, has stalled. With no progress reports from the grantee since November 2016, and after a number of attempts on all sides to jumpstart the work, the Grants Committee has voted to cancel the grant, as provided in the rules of operation. Many on the Committee and in the community would like to see a successful update of blogs.perl.org. With that in

Tony Cook has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 400 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of which are linked below: January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 Before

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. The main things I did last month were: working on fuzzer-related tickets in the security queue; working on tickets in the 5.26 blocker queue; investigating the possibility of storing short strings directly in the head of an SV, eliminating the need for an

Zoffix Znet provided this report on March 28, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the March, 2017 progress report for Timing My delivery of the Action Plan was one week later than I originally expected to deliver it. The delay let me assess some of the big-picture consistency issues, which led to proposal to remove 15 methods from IO::Handle and to iron out naming and

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March 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 April 12th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. RPerl User Documentation, Part 3 Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March 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 April 12th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support in

Please join me in welcoming John SJ Anderson as the newest voting member of The Perl Foundation's Grants Committee. John has helped organize several recent YAPCs, given talks and training at YAPCs, and maintains several modules on CPAN. Additionally, as Makoto Nozaki is transitioning to the secretary of the TPF Board, he is vacating the position of GC Secretary, and I have been selected to to fill the role. My

Zoffix Znet provided this report on February 26, 2017 This document is the February, 2017 progress report for TPF Standardization, Test Coverage, and Documentation of Perl 6 I/O Routines grant Timing I'm currently running slightly behind the schedule outlined in the grant. I expect to complete the Action Plan and have it ratified by other core members by March 18th, which is the date of the 2017.03 compiler release.

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. This month's round is a little later than usual, due to the selection of a new GC Secretary This round will be slightly compressed, and we'll strive to get back on track for the next round. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will

We've been reviewing Perl Foundation committees over the last few months and I'm happy to report some new people have stepped into committee leadership roles. David Oswald is the new conferences committee chair. This position had gone vacant for a period as TPF Treasurer Dan Wright along with others took a more active role in planning for The Perl Conference. The board is happy to once again have someone in