The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 2009. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. ... read more |
Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates this time. h3. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi No updates this time. h3. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith Grant closed due to grantee lack of feedback. h3. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern Michael update: _At the Birmingham QA Hackathon, between answering random questions and having random TAP discussions, my focus was on working on ... read more |
Grants updates: "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: YAML-Perl is progressing nicely. I just uploaded 0.02 to CPAN and github. http://tinyurl.com/co6h6h details the current status and basic todo list. Basically the porting is winding down and all the basic stuff is working properly. The Parser is completely ported. In fact, all the classes are completely ported except: Emitter 3 more methods; Resolver 5 more methods I could ... read more |
We are delighted to announce that TPF has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. We would like to thank everyone involved, especially "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/ for all his hard work in coordinating this project. If you are a student, and would like more information on taking part, please read Jonathan's article on "applying for GSoC with The Perl Foundation":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/applying-to-google-summer-of-c.html. ... read more |