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  • Running Grants (2009 - I) Fri, 02-Jan-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    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

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  • Perl on a Stick - Grant Complete Fri, 02-Jan-2009 by Alberto Simões
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    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

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  • Running Grants (2008-X) Mon, 15-Dec-2008 by Alberto Simões
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    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.

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  • Jonathan Worthington's Hague Grant, "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements", accepted Wed, 10-Dec-2008 by Richard Dice

    On November 20, 2008, "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/ submitted an "Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants request entitled "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements.":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html Public comments regarding this grant request were extremely positive. These, in addition to consultation with "Jesse Vincent":http://bestpractical.com/about/us.html and "Patrick Michaud":http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Pm/AboutPm allow The Perl Foundation to enthusiastically accept this grant request. "chromatic":http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/ has agreed to volunteer as the grant manager for this grant, and TPF gladly accepts his help with

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  • 2008Q4 Grants Results Mon, 08-Dec-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Running Grants (2008 - IX) Mon, 01-Dec-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • SMOP Grant special update Tue, 25-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Running Grants (2008-VIII) Fri, 21-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Hague Grant request, "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements", open for community comments Thu, 20-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/ has submitted a request for an "Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for his proposal "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancement". 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 community members may provide their comments regarding this grant request here. Name: Jonathan

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  • Parrot Grant Update for September and October, 2008 Wed, 12-Nov-2008 by Dave Rolsky
    in: Grants

    Now that the Parrot Foundation has "their own webste":http://www.parrot.org, I will be posting all grant updates to that site. You can see the "latest update":http://www.parrot.org/news/nlnet-grant-update-september-and-october-2008 there right now. In the future, all updates will be posted solely to parrot.org. I've also moved "the page that describes the grant structure":http://www.parrot.org/foundation/grants/nlnet-grant to parrot.org.

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  • TPF announces grant to David Mitchell for the release of Perl 5.10.1 Tue, 11-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    It is with considerable pleasure that TPF announces today a Perl development grant to David Mitchell for the release of Perl 5.10.1. David's work through this grant will be: The vetting and application of 400+ outstanding patches to the Perl 5.10 codebase; A rework of the "smart match" feature semantics to address known issues; Packaging of a Perl 5.10.1 release distribution. The funding amount of this grant is USD $5000,

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  • Wrap-up Report on Patrick Michaud's Mozilla Foundation / Perl Foundation Perl 6 development grant Mon, 10-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    Recently, Patrick Michaud, head of the "'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation":http://rakudo.org/ effort on top of the "Parrot VM":http://www.parrot.org/, was awarded the first "Hague grant for Perl 6 development":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. This grant is effectively a follow-up and extension to his highly successful "Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation grant for Perl 6 development ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/11/patrick_michaud_awarded_perl_6.htmlthat was awarded in November 2007. Patrick wrote an "excellent summary":http://use.perl.org/%7Epmichaud/journal/37403 of the grant and what it achieved at his "use.perl.org":http://use.perl.org/ journal.

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  • TPF awards Hague Grant to Jerry Gay, core 'Rakudo' Perl 6 team member, regarding S19 command line Sun, 09-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the second "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Jerry Gay, core Parrot hacker and 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation hacker. The details of Jerry's grant proposal are below. The work will be to define the S19 synopsis pertaining to command-line interaction with Perl 6, and to provide a Rakudo implementation of the synopsis. Jesse Vincent, the project manager of the Perl 6 effort,

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  • TPF awards first Hague Grant to Patrick Michaud, head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort Sun, 09-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the first "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Patrick Michaud, the head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort on top of the Parrot VM. Conceptually it is an extension of Patrick's earlier Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation Perl 6 development grant that he worked on between late 2007 and mid 2008. The details of Patrick's grant proposal are below. Jesse Vincent, the

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  • Announcement of the Ian Hague Perl 6 development grants Sat, 08-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    In May 2008, "Ian Hague provided The Perl Foundation with a huge donation for the sake of supporting Perl 6 development":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/tpf_receives_large_donation_in.html. In the past few months, and in consultation with Perl community members at YAPC::NA 2008, TPF has developed a Hague grant process for Perl 6 grants. Please visit "www.perlfoundation.org":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for more details regarding the Hague grants.

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  • Running Grants (2008-VII) Mon, 03-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposals Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: CPAN::Forum development Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
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    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.

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
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    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

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Perl debugger integration in Padre Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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