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In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering May 2012. This report is essentially the same as my report for the first week, but that will not be the usual case. If you read that report you can safely skip this one. You may recall that recently I submitted a grant proposal to The Perl Foundation ... read more |
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The Perl Foundation is proud to announce that the craigslist Charitable Fund is supporting the Perl community with a generous donation of $100,000 toward Perl5 maintenance and for general use by the Perl Foundation. According to craigslist CEO and former Perl Hacker Jim Buckmaster, "craigslist has gloried in and relied upon Perl for most of its software development for more than a decade. craigslist Charitable Fund is honored to recognize ... read more |
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Booking.com donates again to The Perl Foundation, gives €100,000 to Perl 5 development Booking.com have announced that they have donated a new grant of €100,000 to the Perl Foundation to aid with further development of the Perl 5 programming language. The grant follows Booking.com's $50,000 grant to TPF that was just recently successfully concluded, having contributed to a significant improvement in quality of the Perl 5 core. Booking.com is the ... read more |
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In August of 2011 Gabor Szabo started an ambitious project intended to bring a snapshot of the Perl World to the wider community. That project was called "Perl Weekly":http://perlweekly.com/. Gabor had seen an issue in the community, in order to follow the latest news, learn about the latest events or keep up-to-date with important elements of the community you were required to sift through a large number of blogs, news ... read more |
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This year the Perl Foundation have been proud to send out a festive card to celebrate the, broadly Western, holiday season. The list of recipients was garnered from those who have supported the Foundation in the past year in many different ways, excluding those who have selected not to be contacted further. This method however was not wholly effective and I know that we missed a whole bunch of people ... read more |