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Name: Adam Kennedy Title: Perl on a Stick Synopsis: The initial goal is to create a module in the Portable:: namespace to handle the internals of implementing portability support add functionality to automatically modify a Strawberry Perl .zip distribution to make it run on a portable device, build support for generating a Portable distribution directly in Perl::Dist, and to make the methodology compatible with existing portable application groups, such as ... read more |
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Name: Daniel Ruoso Title: SMOP Simple Meta Object Programming Synopsis: SMOP is an alternative C implementation of a runtime to run Perl 6. It is built with a pragmatic approach, while still focusing in implementing all the features Perl 6 needs. SMOP resembles perl 5 structure, and implement the concepts of "Responder Interface" and "Polymorphic Eval" that should enable a considerable set of extensibility. More information can be found at: ... read more |
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The "YAPC::NA schedule":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/schedule is up and the early bird pricing of $85 ... read more |
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The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 2008. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references>. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or ... read more |
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The Perl Foundation is supporting the "Oslo QA Hackathon":http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Oslo_QA_Hackathon_2008 which is taking place this weekend. For past events, like "Chicago":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/11/chicago_perl_hackathon_a_rousi.html and "The Netherlands":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/03/european_perl_hackathon_result.html, we provided cash to cover costs. For Oslo, the organizers were set with the venue, but really wanted to bring in people from around the world. So we agreed to support the hackathon with some directed travel grants to David Golden and brian foy. brian is blogging ... read more |