Dave Mitchell recently requested an extension of his Maintaining Perl 5 grant. I'm pleased to announce that the Board of Directors approved extension of another $20,000. It'll allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. I would like to thank the community members who took time to comment on this grant extension request and our sponsors who made funding the grant possible through our Perl 5 Core Maintenance

This report is being provided to the Perl community in an effort to improve transparency. The Perl Conference 2017 was held at the US Patent and Trademark office in Alexandria, VA from June 18th through Saturday June 23rd, 2017. Total attendance was 245. This marks the second year in a row that attendance was below 250. The total expenses for this event were $93,769, which is lower than recent years.

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Board of Directors approved the grant proposal Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 Core. This will allow him to dedicate 200 hours to the work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Zefram's work will benefit the community.

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and conclude acceptance

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2017 round There was one proposal in this round, which was approved. I am currently working with the treasurer to verify funding. Voting results: 6 Yes votes, 1 No Vote, and 1 abstention with a score of 24 Big thanks to André Walker for his patience as I become accustomed to the GC workflow. I am very hopeful that funding

Jonathan Worthington's request to extend Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering by $10,000 has been approved. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible and all the people who gave us feedback on this grant. I hope Jonathan's work will continue to benefit the community.

brian d foy reported that his grant is completed. brian gave us a list of talks/movies as follows: Amsterdam.pm on June 8 French Perl Workshop on June 10 London.pm on June 29 PerlTricks.com article I appreciate TPF donors who made this possible, all the people who gave us feedback on this grant, and brian, who delivered the quality results. I am personally looking forward to brian's talk at NY.pm, which

Too Long need Limerick: There once was a Trog in Houston He saw a committee being reduced in Now he's a chair and full of despair He needs people introduced in. If you didn't happen to make it to the TPC this year and see one of the cutest lightening talks this year, this may come as news to you. There is still a Community Advocacy Committee. For those who

Samantha continues to address the addition of Unicode features and long-standing Unicode bugs in her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. In her complete blog post, she describes: the Unicode collation algorithm in a very readable overview, and her improvements to enable customizable collation at all three main collation levels support for the Prepend property in code that avoids grapheme breaking, leading to increases in

In the The Perl Conference month, Chad reports some improvements in the documentation, that is available at http://test-more.github.io/Test2-Manual/, with some new sections. He also used this manual to give two presentations at YAPC.

brian d foy's Perl 6 Travel Grant Proposal has been approved. The payment will be made after Presentation at Amsterdam.pm and London.pm Slides are published Articles are published based on the talks Recorded presentation is published Thank you for those who gave us valuable feedback and thank you for the TPF donors for making it happen.

Jonathan Worthington has requested an extension of $10,000 for his Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering grant. This will allow him to dedicate another 200 hours to this work. His previous work was successfully delivered as reported in the This funding will come from the Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please

Dave Mitchell has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Maintaining the Perl 5 Core grant. He also has requested an hourly rate change from $50 to $60. This will allow him to dedicate another 333 hours to this work. During this grant he sent regular reports to the p5p mailing list as well as providing monthly summary reports that have been published on this site, the most recent of

This is a monthly report by Dave Mitchell on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. I spent May mainly: heavily reworking perl's internal sprintf implementation. I've now pushed a smoking branch containing about 100 commits which fixes bugs, audits the code for possible integer overflows, makes the code simpler and simpler to understand, and improves

In this issue: Sunday Arrival Dinner Tuesday Night Social: Get to know your fellow attendees! Tutorials spaces still available Call for Speakers: Lightning Talks Call for Volunteers Arrival Dinner Sunday June 18 Arrangements have been made with Zikrayet Restaurant and Lounge to host a large crowd for The Perl Conference Arrival Dinner. Given the nature of the place, it will be possible to make this

As some readers may recall, I mentioned in a previous post that we were evaluating whether to maintain the Community Advocacy Committee. This announcement was enough to move Mark Prather to action. He wrote to me shortly after the blog post went up and asked what he could do to help keep this committee and its mission alive. The answer was become the new committee chair and I'm happy to

Samantha McVey has made progress on her grant to improve the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. She is working in the following repos: https://github.com/samcv/UCD, https://github.com/samcv/Unicode-Grant. Here are a few highlights from her complete blog post. "In Roast there is a new version of GraphemeBreakTest.t. The script tests the contents of each grapheme individually from the GraphemeClusterBreak.txt file from the Unicode 9.0 test suite. Previously we only checked the

Zoffix Znet provided this report on May 29, 2017 The Grants Committee will vote on its completion and payment. If you have feedback or questions, please comment here COMPLETION Report Perl 6 IO TPF Grant This document is the May, 2017 progress report for I believe I reasonably satisfied the goals of the grant and consider it completed. This is the final report and may reference some of the work/commits

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by June 15th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Andr� Walker Amount

TPF Board has received a new grant application under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Before we vote on this proposal, we would like to get feedback from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to makoto at perlfoundation.org. IRC nickname: Zefram project title: Zefram maintaining the Perl 5 core ###synopsis I'd like a grant to work on the Perl 5 core,