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The following statement was written by Roberta Cairney, councel to The Perl Foundation. The Perl Foundation has participated in the Jacobsen v. Katzer amicus brief as the license in dispute, Artistic 1.0, is very popular in the Perl community and is one of the licenses under which Perl 5 is released. A decision was rendered on August 13, 2008 in the Jacobsen v. Katzer case by the U.S. Court of ... read more |
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The 2008Q2 grant round was by far the largest in recent years in both the quantity and quality of grant requests received by TPF. Characterisitically, TPF authorizes about US$5,000 of grant funding per quarter. In 2008Q2 we received nearly US$45,000 in grant requests. We see this as both a positive thing and a problem. The positive part is that it shows some great activity in the Perl community and people ... read more |
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On May 14, 2008, The Perl Foundation received a philanthropic donation of US$200,000 from Ian Hague. Mr. Hague is a co-founder of Firebird Management LLC a financial fund management company based in New York City. This donation was the result of extensive discussions between Mr. Hague, The Perl Foundation and a Perl community member who wishes to remain anonymous. The purpose of the donation is to support the development of ... read more |
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Yesterday, TPF received word from Google that our submission to be a participating organization in the 2008 Google Summer of Code project was accepted. Our thanks to everyone involved in the application process, but especially to Eric Wilhelm who organized and drove the effort. We will provide more details here soon. ... read more |
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It is with great pleasure that I announce the November 2007 status report for Patrick Michaud's Perl 6 Development Grant provided jointy by Mozilla Foundation and The Perl Foundation. It can be found at: "http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/35049":http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/35049 This is the first of four monthly status reports. As part of this grant, Patrick will use his use.perl.org journal to collect his writings regarding his work on Perl 6 Parrot. To see a list ... read more |