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

Nicholas Clark writes: The start of December was mostly spent unpicking and simplifying how embed.h is included in perl.h. embed.h is one of the core's generated headers, containing C pre-processor directives to simplify use of the C API functions, by wrapping them such that the programmer doesn't need to deal with the implementation details of ithreads. Over the years, embed.h has come to be included by perl.h in 4 different

Its that time of the year, again. The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $2000 in February 2012. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you! Do you have something

chromatic writes: Last year Perl.com came back to life, this time under the guidance of The Perl Foundation. We're glad to be back, publishing tips, tricks, and tutorials for novices, dabblers, and professionals alike! We've already published some great articles, but we need your help. What cool things are you doing with Perl in your work? What clever hacks have you perpetuated as you play? Which module did you just

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

Dear Community, After the voting process, the grants committee rejected all grant proposals. One of them was rejected by not compliance with the GC rules, and the other were rejected by a vote of the committee. A new round of grant proposals will open next week.

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

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

For some time there has been a square Perl Foundation Onion sticker doing the rounds at conferences and events and we are finally at the point where there are very few of them left. So I thought it was about time we had some new stickers for the organisation so that we can stick them on people and things at the many Perl and non-Perl related events. This is the

Dear Community, In the last two months we had a call for grant proposals. We got four proposals that are now available for discussion. Please follow the links below, read each proposal, and comment about the relevance of the grant, and if you think TPF should sponsor that work. "#103612: Still perl-controlled alcohol distillation system":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/12/2011q4-grant-proposal-still--.html by Steve Eirium "#104490.1: raidlax raid5-style redundancy above the filesystem":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/12/2011q4-grant-proposal-raidlax.html by Steve Eirium "#104490.2: recogniser

Steve Eirium DISCUSSION In a world of bank bailouts and wikipedia's cries for funding, one thing rises above the swamp of crap: making alcohol. Clearly one of the best things to be doing on the surface of a planet, it is only natural that some fusion would erupt on the interface with perl. Operating a reflux still is a fumey experience of careful timing. To avoid dying or going blind,

Steve Eirium DISCUSSION Browse for a file in nautilus you are seeing a staggering lack of form that shrouds what's there amongst itself. You feel clinking fatigue as you struggle to apply your natural capacities for visual recognition to this stark landscape of despairing monotony. What about all the chaos that went into the creation of this mess? It's in the order of the dates, you feebly suppose. I hope

Steve Eirium DISCUSSION RAID5 is well-understood but under-utilised, mostly due to the massive logistical problems of doing anything with it. RAID is a layer below the filesystem and above the disk partitions, one would have to be some kind of pervert to bother with such arcane nonsense. Just google around to see what a wasteland of human experience it is. The reality of the security you get on the life

Name: Allyson Whitney-Caputo Email: Amount Requested: USD10,000 Synopsis Perl is used by companies and taught in computer science classes around the world, but the most up-to-date Perl documentation is only readily available in English. There have been attempts over the years to translate Perl's documentation into other languages, but all have been abandoned. The proposed grant would support the complete Turkish localization of this documentation.   Benefits to the

Nicholas Clark writes: A fair chunk of November was spent on disentangling pod/buildtoc Originally pod/buildtoc was a script run by the pumpking to rebuild pod/buildtoc.pod, and pod/buildtoc.pod was shipped in the distribution. In 2003 I extended it to add code to regenerate the lists of Pod files in various Makefiles, which were repetitive to maintain manually, and contained several errors where particular files were omitted. The assumption was that pod/buildtoc

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. Spent it continuing my overhaul of the re_eval mechanism. This month I made literal code blocks work properly within runtime patterns, i.e. /$runtime I also made it so that qr//'s embedded within other patterns are no longer simply stringified and interpolated into the new pattern; instead, any code blocks within the qr are

In December of 2008, Booking.com provided a $50,000 grant for the development and maintenance of Perl. In February of 2010, Dave Mitchel submitted a grant proposal to use $25,000 of these funds for Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs. This grant was eventually accepted and then extended twice. The grant has been a massive success and has allowed Dave Mitchell to put in over 1,000 hours fixing bugs in Perl 5. Thanks

I am happy to announce that Dr. Nicholas Clark's request for an extension of his "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund, "Improving Perl 5":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2011/08/grant-proposal-improving-perl.html, has been accepted. This extension will allow Nicholas to spend another 400 hours working on the Perl 5 core. Since the "Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_core_maintenance_fund was created in June we have raised a total of $58,856. I would like to thank everyone who has supported this

Michael Schwern didn't finish his grant in the usual way, completing all the proposed milestones, but he was forced into it, as the Grants Committee decided a hard deadline for the grant We asked Schwern a final report, stating what was done, and what is missing. This report will be evaluated by the Grants Committee members, deciding whether Schwern should be paid for the full grant. The result is completely

We have received the following "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants application from Jonathan "Duke" Leto. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Jonathan "Duke" Leto Project Title PL/Perl6 Infrastructure and Improvements Synopsis The proposed grant would support the development of PL/Perl6,