I'm pleased to announce that the Complete YAML::PP grant is now itself completed, and the work has been accepted by the Committee. Thanks to Tina for her work, and to Mark for acting as grant manager.

Zoffix has posted his June Report. Most of the work on constants has been completed; Some bad math on zero-denominator rationals has been fixed. As Zoffix works through these issues, some work may find its way into ecosystem modules instead of core Perl 6. You can read all the details at his June 2018 blogs.perl.com posting Note that Zoffix will be taking the next month off to focus on some

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. Introduction to Application Development with Perl

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. App::rs The first reference counting CPAN

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the May/June round. Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 App::rs The first reference counting CPAN client Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 June 9th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through June 16th, and

I'm happy to report that the Test2 Manual has been accepted as complete by the Committee. Thanks to Chad for seeing this grant through, and to Alberto for acting as grant manager.

Zoffix has already dug in on his grant, making some decent progress in the first month. Taking a test driven approach and implementing tests for the work in branches, he's identified some issues that will cause him to modify the original approach. You can read all the details at his May 2018 blogs.perl.com posting

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2018 round. There was one proposal this round: Voting results: Approved and funded: 7 yes votes with a score of 31 No specific feedback is available. Next Round We accept proposals throughout the year; our next round of voting would be in May You can submit proposals now. If you want to help with funding and increase our budget, please

Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Name: Zoffix Znet Amount Requested: USD 1,999 Synopsis The proposal is to perform two pieces of work on the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler along with a third bonus piece: 1. Implement support for type constraints on constants and polish some of the rough edges with and constants initializer calls. 2. Fix several bugs and a race

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April round. Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by April 7th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 27th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through April 3rd, and

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January 2018 round. There were six proposals in this round. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Voting results: Approved and funded: 5 yes, 1 abstention, 1 no with a score of 15 Some voters expressed concern about the comments/feedback posted on the grant. It is our hope that the requestor will work closely with the community when implementing this grant. Future grants

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Name: John

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the January/February round. Perl Camp in Democratic Republic of Congo Curating and improving Perl6 documentation MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler List Operators In RPerl Compiler OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. List Operators In RPerl Compiler Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Name:

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Please note that this particular request