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I would like to congratulate the six students who were accepted to work with The Perl Foundation for this year's Google Summer of Code. The successful students and projects are: "André Walker Rework Catalyst component setup code":http://perl.andrewalker.net/proposal-rework-catalyst-component-setup-code/ Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim "Brian Neil Fraser Making the Perl Core UTF-8 clean":http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/hugmeir/1 Mentored by Florian Ragwitz and Zefram "Carlos Ivan Sosa Removing the upgrading necessity of the Dancer script ... read more |
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Below is an overview of the programs that were financially supported by The Perl Foundation in 2010. Programs are roughly broken up into 3 categories: Events, Marketing, and Development. Perl events The Perl Foundation supported four conferences in 2010. Those conferences were: The North American Yet Another Perl Conference Frozen Perl, The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, and The Perl Oasis. Each event is expected to be self-sustaining through program fees and ... read more |
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I am pleased to announce that "The Perl Foundation":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ and "Parrot Foundation":http://parrot.org/foundation have had 10 projects accepted for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/. Student: Justin Hunter Project Title: "Rework Catalyst framework's instance initialisation code to provide more flexible and extensible inversion of control":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763632 Mentor: Florian Ragwitz Student: Tyler Curtis Project Title: "A PAST Optimization Framework for Parrot":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763715 Mentor: chromatic Student: Nat Tuck Project Title: "Hybrid Threads for Parrot":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763672 Mentor: ... read more |
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I am delighted to announce that TPF has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/. "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/ is a program that offers stipends to student developers for writing code for open source software projects. Last year we had nine projects accepted and we would love to have more this year. "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/ is our chief organizer and he is looking for "mentors":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc_mentors ... read more |
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This year's Google Summer of Code has ended. We would like to thank "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/, the mentors, and the students for all their hard work. Jonathan has written an excellent summary of the project, "Perls of Wisdom: The Perl Foundation Parrot's Google Summer of Code":http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/10/perls-of-wisdom-perl-foundation-parrots.html, and the code is also "available":http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2009-tpf/downloads/list. We hope to participate in this project again next year and if you are interested in working with us ... read more |