We have received the following grant application "Swim to Pod". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Swim to Pod Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3000 Synopsis Provide Swim tools that allow Perl programmers to produce elaborate Pod documention, painlessly. Provide all the functionality of Pod in a syntax better than Markdown. Provide 5 plugins for extending Swim in

We have received the following grant application "Pegex Grammar for YAML". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Pegex Grammar for YAML Name: Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3500 Synopsis Make YAML.pm and YAML::Tiny driven by a common formal grammar. Benefits to the Perl Community Perl has four major YAML implementations: YAML YAML::Tiny YAML::XS YAML::Syck They all have major incompatabilities.

We have received the following grant application "Inline::C Module Support". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Inline::C Module Support Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $2,000 Synopsis Make Inline::C and Inline::CPP the best choice for writing "XS" modules. Benefits to the Perl Community In 2000, Inline.pm and Inline::C brought XS from "hard things possible" to "hard things simple". People

We have received the following grant application "IO::All Redux". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. IO::All Redux Name Ingy döt Net David Oswald Amount Requested USD $3,000 Synopsis Rewrite IO::All to match the needs of 10 years experience. Benefits to the Perl Community IO::All is a Perl module that attempts to make all Input/Output operations in Perl, as simple, normal, and uniform

We have received the following grant application "Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme". Please leave feedback in the comments field by September 25th, 2014. Nile Visual Web App Framework Separating Code From Design Multi Lingual And Multi Theme Name: Ahmed Amin Elsheshtawy Amount Requested: USD 10,000 Synopsis The main idea in this framework is to separate all the html design,

This announcement is essentially the same as the one from July. This is a bi-monthly reminder. 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 September 14th UTC.

We are pleased to announce that Mark Jensen has joined the Grants Committee as a Grant Manager. Mark has been a core developer on the BioPerl project since 2009, and is the author of the Neo4j graph database Perl driver, REST::Neo4p. He currently manages the Data Coordinating Center team of The Cancer Genome Atlas. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Mark.

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who can make contributions to Perl development through the Grants Committee. Currently we have a couple of openings for Grant Managers. Responsibilities Work with grantees and help grants be delivered successfully. Ensure the grant progress is published to the community every month. Become the communication hub between grantees and the Committee. Join the Committee's discussion to improve the grant program. Preferred qualifications Medium or

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July round. Proposals in this round Start ACT Voyager, Theo van Hoesel, USD 6,000 Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD 1,000 Voting Results Title Yes No Score Start ACT Voyager 5 2 18 5+4+3+3+3 Book: Practical Approach to... 2 7 Definition of the score is found in 3.2 of the rules. Details Start ACT Voyager

The Grants Committee has received two grant proposals for the July round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposals below and please comment there. The Committee members will start the voting process on July 26th and the conclusion will be announced by July 31st. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5, Ahmed Bilal, USD

We have received the following grant application "Start ACT Voyager". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Start ACT Voyager Name: Theo van Hoesel Amount Requested: 1.000 DBIx::Class 2.000 Dancer implementation 1.000 REST api 2.000 Theme Based templates 6.000 TOTAL Synopsis The Perl Community is a social community that gathers at several places around the world during Conferences and WorkShops

We have received the following grant application "Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5". Please leave feedback in the comments field by July 25th, 2014. Book: Practical Approach to Web Programming with Perl 5 Name: Ahmad Bilal Amount Requested: USD 1000 Synopsis This book would teach web programming from ground up through a practical and minimalist approach. Benefits to the Perl Community 2 years back, when

As communicated at the May round closure 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 July 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback

The following grants have been cancelled and no payments will be made to the grantees. YACT Yet Another Conference Tool The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled as the grantee opted to cancel it. Next Release of Pinto With Key Features The grant was started on May 2013 and has been cancelled due to the rules of operation 2.6. Perl 6 Tablets The

The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting result of the May round. The following grant is approved and funded: Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000 Voting result: Title Yes No Score Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl 6 0 25 5+5+5+5+3+2 Definition of score is found in 3.2 of the rules. We would like to express gratitude for those who took time to give

The Grants Committee has received one grant proposal for the May 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 there. The Committee members will start the voting process on May 22nd and the conclusion will be announced by May 31st. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl, Toby Inkster, USD 4,000

We have received the following grant application. Please leave feedback in the comments field by May 22nd, 2014. Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl Name: Toby Inkster Amount Requested: USD 4,000 Synopsis The proposal is to write a book on Modern OO programming techniques using Moose, Moo, and Class::Tiny. This would be written in a similar style to chromatic's Modern Perl book, following the same test-driven approach to

The Grants Committee calls for grant proposals every two months. It's time for the May round! If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline is 23:59 May 10th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude the acceptance by May 31st. The format will be the same as the March

The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the voting results of the March round. The following grant is approved and funded: Perl::Lint Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5, Taiki Kawakami, USD 800 The following grant is approved but not funded as specified in 3.4 of the Rules of Operation. This will be reconsidered in the next round according to 1.2 of the rules. Automated generation of DWIM Perl, Gabor Szabo,

The Grants Committee got four grant proposals for this round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on these proposals. Review the proposals below and please comment on each page. They are listed in the order in which they were received. JERL Perl5 running in the JVM, Michael Shomsky, USD 3,000 RPerl Test Suite Upgrade Module::Compile Integration, William N. Braswell, Jr., USD