I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's request to have his "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant "extended":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/09/fixing-perl5-core-bugs---grant-1.html has been successful. This extension would not have been possible without the generous contributions that have been made to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. I would like to thank everyone who has supported this fund and in particular "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, "cPanel":http://www.cpanel.net/, "Dijkmat":http://www.dijkmat.nl/, "Liquid Web":http://www.liquidweb.com/, "Net-A-Porter":http://www.net-a-porter.com/, the "Oslo Perl Mongers":http://oslo.pm.org/, "perl-services.de":http://www.perl-services.de/, and the

Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Highlights are: POSIX: POSIX::Termios and POSIX::SigSet no longer crash with ithreads The XS code has been refactored to reduce the size of the shared object by about 12%, with no change in functionality. More POSIX functions now have tests. Storable: Should now pass tests with older version of Test::More Should now build all the

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Spent it mainly continuing to work on fixing the design flaws in re_evals I'm currently working on literal code within qr//. Over the last month I have averaged 6.5 hours per week. As of 2011/09/30: since the beginning of the grant: 82.4 weeks 892.9 total hours 10.8 average hours per week

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant. During this grant he has sent weekly reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this blog. He has also provided the following summary of his work to date: In the course of the last year and a half, I have closed 68 bug tickets

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. Spent it mainly working on fixing the design flaws in re_evals I now have it mostly fixed for the literal and non-qr case, in the branch davem/re_eval Over the last month I have averaged 14 hours per week. As of 2011/08/31: since the beginning of the grant: 77.4 weeks 864.2 total hours

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Carl Mäsak. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Carl Mäsak Project Title Implementation of macros in Rakudo Synopsis This project will provide Rakudo Perl with AST-based macros. Recently I started discussing

I am happy to announce that Dr. Nicholas Clark's grant proposal, "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html, has been accepted. Thanks goes to the community members who took time to provide feedback on this proposal, to Jesse Vincent, and to all those who have made donations to the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. Spent it mainly working on fixing the design flaws in re_evals Over the last month I have averaged 6 hours per week. As of 2011/07/31: since the beginning of the grant: 73.0 weeks 799.0 total hours 10.9 average hours per week There are 101 hours left on the grant. Report for period 2011/07/01 to

Nicholas Clark has submitted a grant proposal under our new "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund. Before we vote 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. Name: Dr. Nicholas Clark Contact Information: IRC: nicholas Email: nick@ccl4.org Project Title: Improving Perl 5 Synopsis: Free up one of the

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. Bit of a sparse month. Fixed or otherwise closed a few security-related tickets and a few other misc bits and pieces, but spent quite a bit of time on perl-related but not TPF-grant-related stuff: reducing random smoke test failures and refactoring the numeric ops. Over the last month I have averaged 4 hours per

I am pleased to announce that Patrick Michaud's Hague Grant application for a "travel grant ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/07/hague-grant-application-travel.html to attend "YAPC::EU":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/ has been accepted. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

We have received a request from Patrick Michaud asking for a travel grant to enable his attendance at "YAPC::EU":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/ which is taking place in Riga during August. As well as attending and "speaking":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3520 at the conference this would give Patrick the opportunity to participate in an all-day "Perl 6 hackathon":http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3388 scheduled for the Saturday before the conference. Patrick is the lead architect, developer, and project manager for what is now

This week during "YAPC::NA":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/ we announced the launch of a new fundraising drive to raise money for the "maintenance and improvement":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund of the Perl 5 core. I am delighted to announce that "Vienna.pm":http://vienna.pm.org/ have offered to kick-start this fund by offering matched funding for the first $10,000 of sponsorship that is raised. The Perl Foundation would like to thank Vienna.pm for their generous contribution.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. I spent the month working on two bugs: making sv_clear non-recursive when freeing HVs 58:35 Total Numbers of tickets closed: bq. 2 tickets closed that have been worked on 1 tickets closed related to bugs that have been fixed 0 tickets closed that were reviewed but not worked on 3 Total Short Detail

Jonathan Worthington writes: This is a report on the progress that I have made with my current Hague Grant, "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html. My previous Hague Grants and much of the work on Rakudo up until the Rakudo Star release have had a focus on implementing Perl 6 language features, gradually building towards a compiler with more and more coverage of the language. Since the Rakudo Star release,

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

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. Again, I concentrated on bugs that were 5.14 blockers, and also spent a fair amount of time working to reduce smoke failures, which isn't being charged to the grant, as that work wasn't done against RT tickets. Over the last month I have averaged 8 hours per week. As of 2011/04/30: since the beginning

I am pleased to announce that Mark Keating is joining TPF as the chair of the marketing committee. Mark is well known in the Perl community for his work with the Enlightened Perl Organisation, NorthWestEngland.pm, and the London Perl Workshop. His interest and enthusiasm in promoting Perl can clearly be seen through his blogging and the numerous projects he has worked on in the past couple of years. I am

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the March period. I concentrated on bugs that were 5.14 blockers, and also spent a fair amount of time working to reduce smoke failures, which isn't being charged to the grant, as that work wasn't done against RT tickets. Over the last month I have averaged 5 hours per week. As of 2011/03/31: since the beginning of

I am pleased to announce that Moritz Lenz's Hague Grant for "Structured Error Messages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/02/hague-grant-application-struct.html has been accepted. Will Coleda has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. We received a lot of positive feedback regarding this grant and we are delighted that we are able to fund this work. If you would like to help fund grants like this or any of our other projects please visit "https://donate.perlfoundation.org":https://donate.perlfoundation.org/.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the February period. Spent most of the month fixing many taint issues associated with s///, which I discovered as a side-effect of looking into the \p{$tainted} issue. Over the last month I have averaged 13 hours per week. Over the 50 weeks of the grant I have done 639 hours, averaging 12.8 hours per week. There are

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Moritz Lenz. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Moritz Lenz Project Title Structured Error Messages: Design and Implementation Synopsis A system for error messages will be designed, and implemented in

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the January period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing, and worked on the security issues associated with user-defined \p{} properties. Over the last month I have averaged 10 hours per week. Over the 47 weeks of the grant I have done 585 hours, averaging 12.4 hours per week. There are 315 hours left on the

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the December period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing. Over the last month I have averaged 5 hours per week, mainly due to Christmas. Over the 43 weeks of the grant so far, I have done 548 hours, averaging 12.7 hours per week. There are 352 hours left on the grant. Report for period 2010/12/01

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. Nearly all the month was spent on one bug, which was to make PerlIO minimally re-entrant bq. 0:00 diagnosing bugs 46:40 fixing bugs 7:45 reviewing other people's bug fixes 0:00 reviewing ticket histories 0:00 review the ticket queue 54:25 Total Numbers of tickets closed: bq. 2 tickets closed that have been worked on 0

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html has been extended by another $20,000. I would like to thank Dave for his great work so far. I would also like to thank his grant managers Jesse Vincent and Marcus Holland-Moritz, and "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, whose generous contribution to TPF has allowed us to fund this grant. To date this grant has allowed Dave to spend around 520 hours working on and

Jonathan Leto writes: I'm excited to announce that "Parrot Foundation":http://parrot.org/ and "The Perl Foundation":http://perlfoundation.org/ have been accepted as "organizations in Google Code-In 2010":http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/org/show/google/gci2010/parrot_perl_foundations! "Google Code-In":http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/program/home/google/gci2010 is a contest, similar to "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2010, where Google pays students aged 13-18 to do tasks designed by open source communities, while learning about open source. Google pays for the work to be done, and we get new members to our communities, while

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the October period. Mostly worked on leak/refcount/malloc bugs this month. Over the first 34 weeks I have now averaged about 14 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 93% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/10/01 to 2010/10/31 inclusive Summary Effort bq. 13:55 diagnosing bugs 37:38 fixing

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the September period. Mostly worked on leak bugs this month. Over the first 30 weeks I have now averaged about 14 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 84% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/09/01 to 2010/09/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq. 14:59 diagnosing bugs 27:30 fixing

Jesse Vincent writes: It gives me great pleasure to announce Perl 5.12.2, the third stable release of Perl 5.12. Shortly, you will be able to download Perl 5.12.2 from your favorite CPAN mirror or from: "http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/":http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 75dbbdfa5bf8d4fc813503253e2b58486fa5a4eb perl-5.12.2.tar.bz2 c157f214a93ce20fc06dc9d9c902c05ad1327cb1 perl-5.12.2.tar.gz This release contains minor bug fixes and updates of several core modules, as well as minor documentation updates. It should be fully backward compatible

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the August period. I was mostly busy with other stuff this month, so didn't get to put in many hours on the grant. Over the first 25 weeks I have now averaged about 15 hours per week, less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 73% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for

I am pleased to announce that Jonathan Worthington's Hague Grant for "Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-meta-m.html has been accepted. Patrick Michaud has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

I am pleased to announce that Patrick Michaud's Hague Grant for "Lists, Iterators, and Parcels":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/hague-grant-application-lists.html has been accepted. Will Coleda has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the July period. This month was mainly spent on providing a general fix for the weak backreferences in stashes globs and CVs. This means that in general there are likely to be less crashes when doing odd things with stashes and globs. Over the first 21 weeks I have now averaged about 17 hours per week, slightly

I am pleased to announce that Solomon Foster has successfully completed his Hague Grant for "Numeric and Real Support":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/hague-grant-application-numeri.html. I would like to thank Solomon and his grant manager, Jonathan Worthington, for all their work on this project. Solomon Foster writes: Introduction While I worked on this grant, Rakudo has matured into a capable compiler ready to go out into the world as Rakudo Star. The work done under this

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Jonathan Worthington. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Jonathan Worthington Project Title Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes Synopsis As Rakudo gains features, its relatively low performance is increasingly being

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. This month was mainly spent on overload and symbol table bugs. Over the first 17 weeks I have now averaged about 17 hours per week, slightly less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 55% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/06/01 to 2010/06/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq.

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Patrick Michaud. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Patrick Michaud Project Title: Lists, Iterators, and Parcels Synopsis 7, 8, and other general Rakudo improvements Project Overview: This project will

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Gabor Szabo. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Grant title: Perl Ecosystem development group Name: Gabor Szabo Amount requested: $25,000 Synopsis: One of the objectives of the Ian Hague donation of

I am pleased to announce that we have made a donation to the "Enlightened Perl Organisation's":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ "Send-a-Newbie":http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/index.html program. This community initiative was started last year by Edmund von der Burg and this year is being run by the "Enlightened Perl Organisation":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/index.html. Its aim is to provide financial assistance to community members who would love to attend "YAPC::Europe":http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ye2010/ and have never attended any large Perl conference before. Donations to the program

In an earlier "blog post":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/updating-the-grant-process.html I stated that the Grants Committee has been working to improve the grants process. This work, along with the feedback we received from the community, has lead to two major changes to our rules of operation. Historically we paid 50% of the grant up-front which led to situations where we paid grantees for little or no results. In future grants will be paid upon completion.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. I continued working my way through the list of tie bugs, then towards the end of the month, got sucked into spending quite a bit of time on a regexp bug. I also spent a bit of time revisiting some earlier fixes of mine where issues showed up once we got 5.12 released and

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:

TPF is helping to sponsor a Perl Booth at "LinuxTag":http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/, Berlin, which takes place from the 9th 12th June. "Gabor":http://szabgab.com/blog/2010/04/1271829580.html and the events team are looking for more volunteers. If you are available to help out please add your details to the "event co-ordination":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events_2010_linuxtag_berlin page on the Perl Foundation wiki. #events

Heath Bair writes: "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ is almost here! June 21st 23rd 2010 is quickly approaching and "Columbus.pm":http://columbus.pm.org/ is getting very excited. Hotel reservation information is available, dorm reservation details are up and ready, and the conference is quickly approaching. For everyone still looking for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ details here is what we have planned. The "conference":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/wiki?node=ConferenceSummary will be held in the brand new beautiful The Ohio State Union. The main "dorm

Yesterday, Jesse Vincent announced the release of Perl 5.12.0. This is an exciting time for Perl 5 with development switching from feature-driven releases to time-based ones. You can download this release from http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.0/ or your local CPAN mirror. A complete list of the changes can be found in perl5120delta. We would like to thank Jesse and the development team for all their hard work and we look forward to seeing

During March Dave Mitchell started working on the "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant. As requested he has been posting weekly reports to the p5p "mailing list":http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ and has provided a monthly summary report for posting here. Dave Mitchell writes: A rough summary of activity in March: first, I tagged all new/open tickets with severity medium with one or more types At the same time, I closed any of those tickets

Over the past few months the Grants Committee has been working to improve our grants process. Our main problem is that we have a very low completion rate for grants. In the past couple of years only 25% of the grants awarded by the Grants Committee have been completed. Not surprisingly we feel that the current system should be changed. There are a number of different problems. We have been

At our recent Board meeting Jim Brandt stepped down as President and Kurt DeMaagd stepped down as Treasurer. We would like to thank Jim and Kurt for all their hard work. Jim became President in July 2009 after holding the post of Vice-President and will continue to serve as a Director on the Board. Kurt has been Treasurer of TPF since it was created in September 2000. This is a

I am pleased to announce that Solomon Foster's Hague Grant application for "Numeric and Real Support":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/hague-grant-application-numeri.html#comments has been accepted. Jonathan Worthington has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

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

Earlier this year Renée Bäcker from "$foo":http://www.perl-magazin.de/ magazine interviewed Richard Dice and me to find out our thoughts on TPF in 2009 and our hopes going forward. An "English version":http://downloads.foo-magazin.de/InterviewTPF_III.pdf of the interview is available online.

I am pleased to announce that David Mitchell's "grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant_proposal_fixing_perl5_co.html has been successful. I would like to thank all the community members who took time to provide feed-back on this proposal and "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/ whose generous contribution to TPF has allowed us to fund this grant.

We have received a Hague grant request, submitted by Solomon Foster. 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. Project Title: Numeric and Real Support Synopsis: This grant aims to refactor Rakudo's current numeric classes to support the Perl 6 specification's new Numeric

Jonathan Worthington has successfully completed his Hague Grant for "Rakudo Signature Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/09/hague_grant_application_rakudo.html. This is his final report: Introduction A while back, I filed an "application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/09/hague_grant_application_rakudo.html for a grant to work on a wide range of improvements to Rakudo's signature, capture and binding implementation, in order to improve performance, bring us in line with the specification and implement a range of features that we did not have support for. I have

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

I am pleased to announce that TPF will be represented for the first time this year at "CeBIT":http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e. The conference is taking place between the 2nd and 6th of March in Hannover, Germany. The events team is still looking for more volunteers to staff the booth. If you want to help out you'll find information on the "events mailing list":http://www.mail-archive.com/events@lists.perlfoundation.org/ and the "events wiki":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events.

Over the past few weeks discussions have been taking place on our Marketing list regarding different ways to promote Perl. One idea we are running with is promoting Perl at technical conferences where the main focus isn't Perl. Gabor has "announced":http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/12/1260171050.html that there will be a Perl booth at "FOSDEM":http://www.fosdem.org/2010/ in February next year. This is, hopefully, the first of many conferences that are targeted. To help co-ordinate our efforts

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

As part of a renewed effort to expand the membership of the "Board":http://www.perlfoundation.org/who_s_who we are pleased to announce the addition of Curtis "Ovid" Poe as our newest Director. Ovid is not new to The Perl Foundation, having been involved with the grants committee since 2003, and we are delighted that he is willing to take on this role. His first task will be to work with Dan Magnuszewski to expand

Jonathan Worthington writes: Introduction bq. If it weren't for the fact that you said you were going to do it, I would've doubted it could be done at all in current Parrot. pmichaud In many senses, this "Hague Grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_request_tra.html was rather more challenging than my "last one":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html. In the course of it, I've been dealing with major changes to some of the things most fundamental to any Perl

The "Nordic Perl Workshop":http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2009/ will be taking place this week on Thursday and Friday in Oslo, Norway. The theme for this year's conference is "Your Future with Perl". The focus will be on Perl 6, Rakudo, Parrot, and modern ways of using Perl 5. A three day Perl 6 and Enlightened Perl "Hackathon":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?oslo_perl_6_hackaton_2009 will follow the workshop. If you are interested in finding out more about this, take a look

There is still time to apply to take part in this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. Don't forget student applications must be "submitted":http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009 by April 3rd, 12 Noon, PDT.

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.

I used to think that there was a conference season and that it took place in the summer. Now in the Perl world we have so many grass-root events taking place that the whole year is our conference season. So far this year we have already had "Perl Oasis":http://perloasis.org/opw2009/ in Orlando, "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2009/ in Minneapolis, the "Bulgarian Perl Workshop":http://event.perlbulgaria.org/sofia2009/, the "German Perl Workshop":http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009/index.html, and the "Belgian Perl Workshop":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/. Today the