The call for papers for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010 has been officially announced. This year's theme will be "Modern Perl". With a planned four parallel tracks each day, there are ample open slots for talks, so be sure to "submit yours today":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/newtalk. ... read more |
The "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ website has been up for a while, but it is now officially integrated with "Act":http://act.mongueurs.net/. Be sure to visit soon, create an account if you don't already have one, and start getting ready for the conference. Remember that the conference is June 21st through 23rd 2010 at Ohio State University. Registration will be $100 which day-passes available. #yapc-2010-conference ... read more |
David Mitchell has submitted a grant proposal, which if accepted would make use of a portion of the funding generously provided to TPF by "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Grant Title: Fixing perl5 core bugs Name: David Mitchell **Amount ... read more |
For this quarter TPF has three grant proposals that were not funded in 2009Q3 round and that will be discussed and voted again in this round, and four new grant proposals: "Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_creating.html by Shlomi Fish "Enhancing CPANHQ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_enhancin.html by Shlomi Fish "perl core memory improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010q1_grant_proposal_perl_cor.html by Jim Cromie "Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_enhancing.html by Morris M. Siegel "Perl Compiler":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_perl_compi.html by Reini urban "CPAN ... read more |
perl core memory improvements Name: Jim Cromie Email: Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $3000 Synopsis Memory allocation enhancements in core Perl's variable namespace model is very flexible, users can: create vars, in any package, or in my scope, by naming them; give them complex values: my $foo share/assign/shallow-copy them: $main::bar $foo; crosslink or self ref them: $a $a other hairy stuff This ... read more |