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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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