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  • 2009Q3 Call for Grants Proposals Sat, 04-Jul-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August/September 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.

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  • Running Grants (2009 - X) Tue, 23-Jun-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Dear all, thanks for the grant managers who sent me updates, but I had some problems with my laptop and things were not easy. Hope to get back on track in 15 days.

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XI) Sun, 07-Jun-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Grants updates, in fact, updates IX, X and XI, as we had a small stop. h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: I'm a bit behind on finishing YAML::Perl. This is due mostly to a focus on TestML. So far I have the spec: http://ingydotnet.github.com/testml/spec/ and a Perl 5 implementation: http://github.com/ingydotnet/testml-pm/ These are undergoing last minute changes. _The reason I'm doing this and telling you about it,

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Results Fri, 22-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    After grant proposals comment by the community and vote taking place in the Grant Committee, these are the results. Rejected proposals: "Project nival ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project.html "Project ruddy ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project_1.html "Perl 6 Pages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_perl_6_p.html Funded proposal: "Pod Mangling Utility Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_pod_mang.html

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  • Approval of latest Hague Perl 6 Grant, "Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo" Fri, 22-May-2009 by Richard Dice

    It is with great pleasure to announce the approval of the latest "Ian Hague grant for Perl 6 development":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants, entitled "'Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo.'":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_request_tra.html This grant goes to "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/, who has already "successfully finished":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_for_jonatha.html one Hague grant. The grant manager for this grant will be "Patrick Michaud":http://www.pmichaud.com/, the lead architect of "Rakudo Perl 6":http://www.rakudo.org/, the "Perl 6":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi implementation effort on top of the "Parrot virtual

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  • Continued Review of TPF Grant for Richard Dice on TPF and Perl community work Wed, 20-May-2009 by Richard Dice

    The TPF board of directors wants to provide a progress update on discussion regarding providing support to Richard Dice to work on TPF and Perl community issues. The original public announcement and request-for-comment is "found here.":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/request_for_comment_tpf_to_eng.html The new version of this proposal is available here It has been revised considerably based on community comment and discussion within TPF. Highlights of the changes between the original version and the current one

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposals Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    That time of the month is back. This quarter we had two new grant proposals, and two grant proposals that were maintained from last round. We expect the community to comment on these grants accordingly with their relevance. Please comment on each grant proposal post: "Perl 6 Pages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_perl_6_p.html "Pod Mangling Utility Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_pod_mang.html "Project nival ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project.html "Project ruddy ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project_1.html

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Project ruddy (web nttp/rss reader and email system) Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Project ruddy Name: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls. Amount Requested: Front end 1000 Back end 1000 Total 2000 Synopsis The name ruddy comes from a kind of dove. Ruddy is intended to be version 0 of a nntp/rss reader an a web based email system. Benefits to the Perl Community It will be an extensible web mail system written with perl and jquery,

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Project nival (CMS) Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Project nival Name: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls. Amount Requested: Front end 1000 Back end 1000 Total 2000 Synopsis The name nival comes from a kind of owl. Nival is intended to be version 0 of a Content Management System Benefits to the Perl Community It will be an extensible CMS written with perl and jquery, allowing to build sites in an

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Pod Mangling Utility Improvements Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Pod Mangling Utility Improvements Name: Ricardo Signes Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis This grant is for the completion of design and implementation of basic versions of three pieces of software currently under development: Pod::Elemental Pod::Weaver Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver All three modules exist and have been in use by a number of people for some time. The main thrust of the grant is to improve the usability and reliability of Pod::Weaver. Pod::Weaver is

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Perl 6 Pages Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Project Title: Perl 6 Pages Name: Herbert Breunung Email: Amount Requested: 600$ € Synopsis comprehensive lexicon-like tutorial Benefits to the Perl Community It will become easy to learn Perl6, because this way people can easily grab the bits they want to learn now about Perl 6. Once ready it may become also a communication channel with people not so involved into perl 6 Deliverables 8-10 larger Pages in the TPF

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  • Hague Perl 6 Grant request, "Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo", open for comment Tue, 28-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice

    Coming off the completion of his first Hague grant, Jonathan Worthington has submitted a request for a new Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant for his proposal "Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo". A part of the Hague grant process is that submitted grant requests may, as opted by the submitter, be provided for public and community comment. Jonathan's grant request is included here, below. Any interested Perl

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  • Hague Perl 6 Grant for Jonathan Worthington completed and accepted Tue, 28-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice

    In late November 2007 Jonathan Worthington submitted a "Hague Perl 6 Grant proposal":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants entitled "'Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements'":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html. I am pleased to announce that Jonathan submitted his final Hague grant report yesterday and it was approved and accepted by chromatic, the grant manager for the grant. This successfully completes this Hague Grant for Perl 6 development. We thank Jonathan for his great work on this grant and his efforts

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  • Google Announces Nine Students in GSoC2009 with The Perl Foundation Thu, 23-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice
  • Moose Documentation Grant Tue, 21-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Dave Rolsky finished writing the Moose Documentation. This grant started a few months ago, and Dave delivered it quickly. You can read Dave wrap-up on "his blog":http://blog.urth.org/2009/04/moose-docs-grant-wrap-up.html #grants

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  • Running Grants (2009 - VIII) Sun, 19-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: I just finished giving my YAML talk today at the NPW in Oslo. It was well received. Later the slides will be up at http://ingydotnet.github.com/yaml-npw2009-talk/ This weekend is a hackathon. One of my big plans is to get PyYaml ported to Perl6 in Rakudo enough to parse Larry's syntax trees. YAML::Perl is all ported but just needs to:

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  • 2009Q2 Call for Grant Proposals Mon, 06-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

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

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  • Running Grants (2009-VII) Sat, 04-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates this time. h3. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi No updates this time. h3. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith Grant closed due to grantee lack of feedback. h3. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern Michael update: _At the Birmingham QA Hackathon, between answering random questions and having random TAP discussions, my focus was on working on

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  • Running Grants (2009 - V) Sat, 21-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Grants updates: "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: YAML-Perl is progressing nicely. I just uploaded 0.02 to CPAN and github. http://tinyurl.com/co6h6h details the current status and basic todo list. Basically the porting is winding down and all the basic stuff is working properly. The Parser is completely ported. In fact, all the classes are completely ported except: Emitter 3 more methods; Resolver 5 more methods I could

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  • Padre and Parrot integration grant cancelled Sun, 15-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    Gabor grant on integrating Padre and Parrot was cancelled. Gabor explains why in his blog Note that this does not mean that this integration will not be done, or that TPF will not fund it. It just means that at this point Gabor does not have the time to deliver the grant on time.

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