First, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not even particularly well versed in all of the issues surrounding open source licensing, the Artistic License, and copyright law. However, I am a member of The Perl Foundation and part of our mission is to support both versions of the Artistic License. As many readers of this blog already know, there is a court case in the federal district court in San

The yapc.org site is now re-registered and available again. Actually, it was back up yesterday but with DNS caching it was hard to get to the real site if you'd already tried earlier Sorry for any inconvenience.

If you've recently surfed over to yapc.org, you'll notice you're not getting the home page you expect. The domain inadvertently expired and we're currently working on renewing it. It turns out the reminders were going to an inactive email account. We're "not the first":http://www.whoisfinder.com/news/200402/washpost-renewal-failure.html to miss a renewal, but it's an inconvenience nonetheless. In the meantime, many of the upcoming Perl events are hosted via Act!, and they keep links

Parrot releases continue to come out once a month. Version 0.5.2 was released in January. The highlight of 0.5.2 for many is surely the inclusion of a perl6 make target, meaning that you can now take a Parrot release and make yourself a Perl 6 binary in just three easy steps: tar -xvzf parrot-x.x.x.tar.gz cd parrot-x.x.x perl ./Configure.pl make perl6 The end result is a perl6 binary that you can

This is a reminder that we plan on closing the open self-nomination period for the TPF Steering Committee Chair, Conference Committee Chair, and PR positions tomorrow. If you're on the fence, it's time to decide. Again, to participate, send me email at cbrandt at perlfoundation dot org and I'll send you an invite to the elections wiki we have set up.

Have you ever wanted to get involved in The Perl Foundation, but didn't know how? Well, now's your chance. I'm pleased to announce open self-nominations for the following TPF roles: "Steering Committee Chair":http://www.perlfoundation.org/steering_committee_chair "Conferences Committee Chair":http://www.perlfoundation.org/conferences_committee_roles "Public Relations":http://www.perlfoundation.org/public_relations You can follow the links above to read descriptions of each of the positions. If you think you're a good fit for one or more of them, send me an email at

A while back, around November 2007, there was "some discussion":http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/34801 about performance problems with rt.cpan.org to the point that some found it to be almost unusable. I bring this up here because there were some suggestions that perhaps TPF could buy some new hardware. If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see Jesse Vincent jumped in and said he thought the performance wasn't a hardware problem and he could make

Thanks to some help from Will Willis and Jeremy Fluhmann, of the Perl Foundation conferences committee, yapc.org has a few new items. Specifically, we've included ads from the "Perl community ad server ":http://adserver.szabgab.com/ provided by Gabor Szabo and a new Workshops page that describes how to organize a workshop and what TPF can do to help.

A bunch of new requests for "Act":http://act.mongueurs.net/ -hosted conference sites have gone in to the Act developers and each has offered to update translation files. This is great news as it provides even more Perl events, keeps the Act translation files up-to-date, and it shows the investment by people all over the world to keep Perl vibrant. It also shows the world-wide reach of the Perl community. Some of the

Over the past few months, I've been working with Kurt to evaluate LedgerSMB a Perl-based accounting system that we thought we might be able to start using for our Perl Foundation accounting. So far, it looks promising and we're continuing our evaluation on a demo install. I've been looking for an open source package because we want the flexibility to integrate with Act, the conference software used by many Perl