Prepare for a big post! Here are the most recent updates from TPF running grants. "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl No updates this time. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Schwern update: TB2 development has been dead for the last few months, largely because I haven't been programming. I'm getting started again, I've been poking at the code again lately, and I'm making three changes to the way its developed. _1> Reigning in the TB2

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 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.

This is the first update for running grants on 2009. At the moment TPF has 12 running grants: "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl I just uploaded YAML-Perl-01_01. It has the entire Loader stack represented. You can play with it by using: ysh -MYAML::Perl It will load many simple YAML documents all the way through, but is not yet complete, so many others will fail. There are 10 modules involved in the

Adam Kennedy finished his Perl on a Stick grant a few weeks ago. You can download the first beta release in Strawberry Perl website Also, while TPF expects Adam to publish a final report sometime, he wrote some posts on his use.perl blog about this grant. Here is a brief resume of them: Strawberry Perl October 2008 Released! I can't submit my grant report yet because of The Sekrit! Microsoft

I posted recently on use.perl asking for new Grant Managers for The Perl Foundation. We got some candidates Nuno Carvalho Renée Bäecker Scott "KONOBI" McWhirter Andrew Shitov Steve Peters Robin Berjon Makoto Nozaki David Nicol Unfortunately I did not receive all these names before starting the voting process. Nevertheless, they will be on my backup list for whenever The Perl Foundation needs new grant managers. From the list the Grant

Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications No updates. Vadim Konovalov Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo Vadim update: Today I've sent a patch to the parrot development list, which is the first portion of work, and I hope to do the remaining work on the grant within current week, including within 20th and 21th december, so I am planning to finish it before December, 22.

Sorry for taking so much time to publish results. TPF have been funding a lot of grants in the last quarters. During this year, TPF invested more than $25.000 in grants, directly related to the standard grant program. Unfortunately donations to TPF are not compensating the invested amount. Thus, this grant TPF can't afford to fund more than two grants Moose Documentation a proposal by Dave Rolsky The Mojo Documentation

We know that results are expected for the fourth quarter call for grant proposals. We expect to publish results really soon. Regarding running grants, follow some updates: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN For the past few days Colin have been reacquainting himself with the BSDPAN code and sketching out a couple different approaches. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: I've been adding unit tests on scalar references and

Daniel Ruoso's Grant Manager just forwarded a big update on SMOP. To keep people up-to-date on current developments I am publishing it off schedule. Please refer to the extended version of this post for details. We are already a month off-scedule But I'm pretty happy anyway, and I'm pretty confident that this delay is worth the trouble, considering the interesting amount of progress we're having So, to the update: We're

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Colin should start working later in the Winter. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: I've added unit tests fixed a few bugs and added a two useful methods that I found missing while doing so. Made some changes to the exporting code, making it easier to export with a slurping argument.

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Colin should start working later in the Winter. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: so far I've been busy with extending my TAP producer and adding unit tests. I've made it more compatible with Boost Lambda, allowing for example this: Array big numbers.grep big.each int sum big.reduce I'm currently busy with

During this fourth quarter TPF received the following grant proposals: "CPAN::Forum development":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_cpanforu.html "Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_integrat.html "Perl debugger integration in Padre":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_perl_deb.html "Inline C++/CLI":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_inline_c.html "Moose Docs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_moose_do.html "Perl Hotel":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_perl_hot.html "single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and Linux":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_singlefi.html "Squatting On Everything":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_squattin.html "The Perl Survey":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_the_perl.html "The Mojo Documentation Project":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_the_mojo.html Please be free to comment each entry with your doubts about the proposal as well as with comments about its relevance. TPF GC will

Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: CPAN::Forum development Synopsis: Lots of general improvements of CPAN::Forum. Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: CPAN::Forum development Synopsis: Lots of general improvements of CPAN::Forum. Benefits to the Perl Community: CPAN::Forum has been around for several years now and it is linked from both major search engines but it is under utilized. Improving its interface will make it easier for users to ask questions regarding specific modules.

Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo Synopsis: Embedding Parrot to be used by Padre for syntax highlighting Perl 6 or any other language defined over Parrot or Perl 6. Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo Synopsis: Embedding Parrot to be used by Padre for syntax highlighting Perl 6 or any other language defined over Parrot or Perl 6. **Benefits to

Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Synopsis: Integrating the perl built-in debugger into Padre, the Perl IDE using Debug::Client a stand alone client to the perl debugger. Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Synopsis: Integrating the perl built-in debugger into Padre, the Perl IDE using Debug::Client a stand alone client to the perl debugger. **Benefits to

Name: John R. Hogerhuis Project Title: Inline C++/CLI Synopsis: Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Name John R. Hogerhuis Project Title Inline C++/CLI Synopsis Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Benefits to the Perl Community The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to

Author: Dave Rolsky Title: Moose Documentation Improvements Synopsis: This project will improve various aspects of the Moose documentation. The primary goal is to make Moose easier to understand for newcomers. The secondary goal is for Moose and Class::MOP to provide 100% complete API documentation for spelunkers. Author Dave Rolsky Title Moose Documentation Improvements Synopsis This project will improve various aspects of the Moose documentation. The primary goal is to make

Name: Cristina Nunes Project Title: Hotel Perl Synopsis: A website where Perl mongers can: register and submit their vacant space to receive other Perl mongers traveling, search for a place to stay at another Perl monger's, announce they're looking for a place to stay at a given city/country Benefits to the Perl Community Better interaction between Perl mongers. Cut expenses when attending Perl events like conferences, workshops and/or social/technical monger

Name: Vadim Konovalov Project Title: single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and then for Linux w/o temporaries and dependencies Synopsis: Proposal is to make a distribution of Perl program with a single-file executable much like PAR approach but without any temporaries, thus having existing filesystem untouched in any way. This executable will include Tcl/Tk into it and all Perl and Tcl/Tk core scripts will be inside this executable and will be

Name: John Beppu Project Title: Squatting On Everything Synopsis: Squatting is unique among web frameworks, because it has the ability to embed itself into other frameworks. This ability has been demonstrated with the Squatting::On::Catalyst module that shows that you can take a whole Squatting application and embed it directly into a Catalyst application. I'd like to expand Squatting's range by writing adapters for more frameworks and environments. Name John Beppu

Name: Kieren Diment Project Title: The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis: In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised and administered the Perl survey to provide a snapshot of the Perl community. In particular she made significant effort to recruit as many people as possible, resulting in a sample size of around 4500 responses. While an excellent start for a design for a survey instrument, it can be improved in a

Name: Sebastian Riedel Project Title: The Mojo Documentation Project Synopsis: During the last few months i've done some self funded work on a next generation web framework named Mojo. It is now quite close to a public release and needs documentation. Name Sebastian Riedel Project Title The Mojo Documentation Project Synopsis During the last few months i've done some self funded work on a next generation web framework named Mojo.

Michael Schwern just finished the y2038 grant. Follows a small report. The y2038 grant has shipped all its deliverables. You can read the full break down here: http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/37688 In short... There is now a patch for bleadperl to universally solve the year 2038 problem. Its integration is delayed until 5.8.9 is released. There's nothing stopping it from going into 5.10.x and 5.8.x, that's up to the pumpkings, but it is

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Grantee is without time for grant. Things are begin discussed to decide what to do. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications No updates since last update. Vadim Konovalov Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo No updates from Grant Manager. Andrew Shitov Barcode support in Act No updates from Grant Manger. Vadim Konovalov Perl cross-compilation for

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from grantee. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've been mostly busy with implementing a TAP producer to build my tests with, and with implementing tests. So far I've been mainly implementing tests for sanity and numeric behavior. On the way there I fixed a few bugs, and added

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 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

From a mail on Perl 5 Porters: Attached is the latest 2038 patch from the y2038 branch. Configure now probes for the safe range of the system's localtime and gmtime Perl will use the system functions inside their safe range. Perl now ships with its own 64 bit gmtime and timegm localtime is made 2038 safe on 32 bit systems using the algorithm described here http://code.google.com/p/y2038/wiki/HowItWorks Time::Local can now handle

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from Grant manager. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've ported it to 5.10. I haven't really tested it beyond compiling, but I don't expect difficulties there. I've worked on the exportation code. Exporting variables is now supported. I want to add member variables too, but I'm not sure

Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up written by Eric Wilhelm: Google's Summer of Code 2008 is wrapping up now and I'm very pleased with how well The Perl Foundation's students and mentors have done. The five projects which survived the halfway point have all finished with great results. Many thanks to all of the mentors and students as well as everyone in the community who helped or supported the

This is the final report for the Smolder grant, by Michael Peters: Here are the original deliverables from my grant proposal: Remove custom XML format in favor of using plain TAP and TAPx::Parser. Extend Smolder to handle small CPAN style modules more easily and automatically. Setup a Smolder server for the CGI::Application community to serve as a testing ground and public display for their 110+ CPAN modules. Add per-project and

Christopher Laco on Mango Grant: It has been over two years since I received a grant from the TPF to start work on Mango. What started as a fast paced 3 month project has turned into a 2 year project that has come to crawl. At this point in time, the TPF and I agree that it is best to label this project as 'done as-is' so the grant manager

This is the third biweekly report. These are the news on currently running grants: Mango Christopher Laco This grant will be closed in the next few days, and a report published here. Porting PyYAML to Perl Ingy döt Net Ingy gave some updates on his grant. YAML::XS is completed, and a pure Perl implementation is being started. A new deadline was defined: Christmas 2008. Improving Smolder Michael Peters As said

Unfortunately TPF is unable to fund all the proposed grants as they exceed the funds available for Grants. Thus, TPF GC ranked proposals accordingly with its relevance to the community, and the first few were funded. These are the funded proposals: "Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_perl_cro.html "Barcode support in Act":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_barcode.html "Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_tcltk_ac.html "Embedding perl into C++ applications":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_libperl.html "Extending BSDPAN":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_extendin.html Follow the proposals that, although accepted, will not

Hi. This is the second biweekly report for August. These are the news on the running grants: Mango Christopher Laco No updates/feedback. Porting PyYAML to Perl Ingy döt Net No updates/feedback. Improving Smolder Michael Peters No updates. Still waiting for a conclusion report. Perl on a Stick Adam Kennedy Accordingly with Adam's blog "I'm happy to report that phase 2 of the Perl on a Stick grant is now completed."

Starting this month, the Grant Committee will publish reports about running grants each two weeks While it is normal that not all grants have updates they will appear in the listing as well with a 'no updates' message. Currently running TPF grants are: "Mango":http://www.perlfoundation.org/christopher_laco_mango Christopher Laco No updates. "Porting PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates. "Improving Smolder":http://www.perlfoundation.org/michael_peters_improving_smolder Michael Peters Grant is finished. A final report should be published

To this post follows a set of posts with proposals received by the Perl Foundation grants committee during the third call for grant proposals for 2008. This worked pretty well on previous round, and thus, we are using the same approach now. These proposals are published here for public discussion. You are invited to comment each proposal about its relevance and objectives. During the month of July we received the

Author Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson Title Improve POE::Component::IRC Synopsis: I will improve POE::Component::IRC by overhauling its test suite, adding more features, fixing bugs and writing more documentation. Author Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson, hinrik.sig@gmail.com Title Improve POE::Component::IRC Synopsis I will improve POE::Component::IRC by overhauling its test suite, adding more features, fixing bugs and writing more documentation. Benefits PoCo::IRC is the most modern IRC client module for Perl out there. It is used for

Author: Colin Smith Title: Extending BSDPAN Synopsis: Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Author Colin Smith Title Extending BSDPAN Synopsis Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Benefits to the Perl Community The wealth of freely available code CPAN represents is one of the Perl language's greatest strengths. Tighter

Author: Vadim Konovalov Title: Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince Synopsis: Right now cross-compilation is largerly incomplete. The proposal is to develop current cross-compiling of perl into the normal quality stage. Author Vadim Konovalov Title Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince Synopsis Right now cross-compilation is largerly incomplete. The proposal is to develop current cross-compiling of perl into the normal quality stage. Benefits to the Perl Community From time to

Author: Vadim Konovalov Title: Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo Synopsis: Implement Tk GUI interface for Rakudo. Author Vadim Konovalov Project Title Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo Synopsis Implement Tk GUI interface for Rakudo. Benefits to the Perl Community Powerful console-based utility is useful, but it becomes much more attractive when it has ability to easily create interfaces, so demos and screenshots will be better looking. Given that Tk 8.5 as compared to

Author: Andrew Shitov Title: Barcode support in Act Synopsis: Integrate a set of tools into A Conference Toolkit that will allow on-site registration with barcodes. Name Andrew Shitov Project Title Barcode support in Act Synopsis Integrate a set of tools into A Conference Toolkit that will allow on-site registration with barcodes. Benefits to the Perl Community Using barcodes during the registration process allows speeding up on-site registration at Perl workshops

Author: Kieren Diment Title: The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis: In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised and administered the Perl survey to provide a snapshot of the Perl community. In particular she made significant effort to recruit as many people as possible, resulting in a sample size of around 4500 responses Author Kieren Diment Project Title The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised

Authors: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls Title: Rufus Synopsis: Build a preprocessor for PASM and a language with PASM like syntax Name Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls Project Title Rufus Synopsis Build a preprocessor for PASM and a language with PASM like syntax Benefits to the Perl Community A nice approach "bottom-up" from PASM and tools for making easier PASM programming. Deliverables A PASM preprocessor "Rufus preprocessor" and a "Rufus

Author: John Beppu Title: Squatting On Everything Synopsis: Squatting is unique among web frameworks, because it has the ability to embed itself into other frameworks. This ability has been demonstrated with the Squatting::On::Catalyst module that shows that you can take a whole Squatting application and embed it directly into a Catalyst application. I'd like to expand Squatting's range by writing adapters for more frameworks and environments. Author John Beppu Title

Author: Michael G Schwern Title: CPAN Stability Project Synopsis: The CPAN Stability Project is intended to improve the usability of CPAN over long term use by providing a way to choose between safe releases vs newest releases as well as to better guarantee that upgrading will not break anything. It draws heavily on Debian's release management and tiers Name Michael G Schwern Title CPAN Stability Project Synopsis The CPAN Stability

Author: Michael G Schwern Title: Module Authoring Documentation Synopsis: Write documentation targeted specifically at Perl module authors using both Module::Build and MakeMaker. This includes basic authoring tutorials, information about XS and a cookbook for advanced issues. Specifically separate the documentation to address the different concerns. Also complete the author API documentation of both Module::Build and MakeMaker. Separate basic and advanced API information for easier reading. Author Michael G Schwern Title

Author: Vadim Konovalov Title: single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and then for Linux w/o temporaries and dependencies Synopsis: Proposal is to make a distribution of Perl program with a single-file executable much like PAR approach but without any temporaries, thus having existing filesystem untouched in any way. This executable will include Tcl/Tk into it and all Perl and Tcl/Tk core scripts will be inside this executable and will be unpacked

Author: Cristina Nunes Title: Hotel Perl Synopsis: A website where Perl mongers can: register and submit their vacant space to receive other Perl mongers traveling; search for a place to stay at another Perl monger's; announce they're looking for a place to stay at a given city/country Benefits to the Perl Community Better interaction between Perl mongers. Cut expenses when attending Perl events like conferences, workshops and/or social/technical monger meetings.

Author: Leon Timmermans Title: Libperl++ Synopsis: Currently embedding perl is too complicated. The API requires too much knowledge of internals to use and is too incompatible with other libraries Therefore I've started a project to ease the embedding of Perl. Though the code works, it is not ready for public consumption yet. In this proposal I want to make it ready for widespread adoption. Author Leon Timmermans Title Libperl++ Synopsis

Authors: John Beppu and Pip Stuart Title: Bavl Synopsis: Bavl is a Free web application for collaboratively learning how to comprehend speak foreign languages. At its core, it is a system for searching through a database of words, phrases, or lessons each accompanied by translations. However, instead of just presenting mere text back, each phrase also can have one or more audio recordings associated with it. This will let people