The "YAPC::NA 2011 Call For Speakers":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/call_for_speakers.html will come to a close at 23:59 EST on March 24th 2011. Some talks have already been accepted if you want to "take a look":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/schedule.

"YAPC::NA 2011 in Asheville, NC":http://www.yapc2011.us/yn2011/ is still four months away, but that doesn't mean that we can't start planning for 2012. The call for venue is officially open! The TPF Conference Committee will be accepting bids today through May 15th 2011. What is YAPC::NA? YAPC::NA is an annual Perl-focused conference held at various locations throughout North America. The conference is a grassroots symposia on the Perl programming language promoted by

Jonathan Leto wrote: The quest to improve test coverage for src/extend_vtable.c has continued. Some dragons were slayed, a few trolls were paid tolls to cross creaky bridges of abstraction and many siren calls to hack on other code were dutifully ignored This "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant has forced me to become very familiar with Parrot vtables which is basically an API for talking to Parrot "PMCs":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod PMC can stand for Parrot Magic

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Moritz Lenz. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name Moritz Lenz Project Title Structured Error Messages: Design and Implementation Synopsis A system for error messages will be designed, and implemented in

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the January period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing, and worked on the security issues associated with user-defined \p{} properties. Over the last month I have averaged 10 hours per week. Over the 47 weeks of the grant I have done 585 hours, averaging 12.4 hours per week. There are 315 hours left on the

Dear Perl Community, First of all, I would like to say sorry for the late warning. But I forgot to post here the news. As you all know, The Perl Foundation does not have any regular money income, other than donations. Although we have some relevant donations in the last years, the budget that the board assigned to the Grants Committee for this year does not make it possible to

In November, I wrote a progress report about work beginning on the Perl 6 Tablets grant. These tablets aim to offer both an in-depth tutorial and reference for Perl 6 Herbert Breunung, the tablets' author, has done considerable work since then on the overall structure of this documentation as well as describing particular details of the Perl 6 language. The tablets have reached a stage where we welcome feedback from

Jonathan Leto wrote: I have slowly but surely been increasing test coverage of src/extend_vtable.c, which when I started my grant was at 5% and is now sitting at 43%. I estimated that it would take about two weeks to get it to 50% and then another two weeks to get to 95%, but this was a bit optimistic. When I look back, giving myself a month for each would have

Kartik Thakore reported: Cleaner Code and a lot of memory and performance improvements 10 out of 11 chapters completed: The profiling chapter was dropped as there was not enough content to justify a chapter. 3 Extra chapters added. Deviation from a CPAN SDL::Manual release. Due to the nature of the Manual it is being released as a creative commons book instead https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/blob/master/dist/SDL_Manual.pdf Next Steps: Get the book polished

Kartik Thakore reported: Added content for several chapters: Tetris Chapter: Cleaned up the code Started work on chapter Music and Sound Chapter: Added code and sound data files Finished Chapter Code Profiling Chapter Start work XS Effects Chapter: Explain Inline::C usage with SDL First draft completed Additional Chapter to get art content SDL Supports Inline::XS Preliminary

TPF has an open grant with Michael Schwern on Test::Builder 2 development. Today Schwern released the design principles on Test::Builder 2, and should release a second alpha version very soon.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the December period. Tinkered a bit more with overloading and tieing. Over the last month I have averaged 5 hours per week, mainly due to Christmas. Over the 43 weeks of the grant so far, I have done 548 hours, averaging 12.7 hours per week. There are 352 hours left on the grant. Report for period 2010/12/01

The "call for talks":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2011/newtalk for "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/ is just wrapping up but there is still a little time to get a late submission in if you hurry. "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/ is a three day event held at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN. The main event is a one-day, two-track workshop on Saturday, February 5th. There will be two Perl classes on Friday, February 4th. "Effective Perl

Below is an overview of the programs that were financially supported by The Perl Foundation in 2010. Programs are roughly broken up into 3 categories: Events, Marketing, and Development. Perl events The Perl Foundation supported four conferences in 2010. Those conferences were: The North American Yet Another Perl Conference Frozen Perl, The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, and The Perl Oasis. Each event is expected to be self-sustaining through program fees and

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the November period. Nearly all the month was spent on one bug, which was to make PerlIO minimally re-entrant bq. 0:00 diagnosing bugs 46:40 fixing bugs 7:45 reviewing other people's bug fixes 0:00 reviewing ticket histories 0:00 review the ticket queue 54:25 Total Numbers of tickets closed: bq. 2 tickets closed that have been worked on 0

Jonathan Leto wrote: My work on a "TPF":http://perlfoundation.org/ grant to "improve documentation and test coverage of the Parrot Embedd API":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/11/2010q4-grant-proposal-improve.html is going well. I have added extensive examples of Parrot function and type signatures, as well beginning to increase test coverage of this subsystem. I am working in the "leto/embed_grant":https://github.com/parrot/parrot/commits/leto%2Fembed_grant branch on "Github":http://github.com/, which has already been merged to master just before the release of Parrot 2.11.0. My first merge

I am pleased to announce that Dave Mitchell's "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html has been extended by another $20,000. I would like to thank Dave for his great work so far. I would also like to thank his grant managers Jesse Vincent and Marcus Holland-Moritz, and "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/, whose generous contribution to TPF has allowed us to fund this grant. To date this grant has allowed Dave to spend around 520 hours working on and

Sebastian Riedel sent his final grant report: I'm happy to report that after some health related delays the Mojolicious documentation grant has finally been finished. Every single module in the project has gotten reference documentation, a quick start tutorial and multiple very substantial guides have been written. All improvements already got merged into the core distribution and are available on CPAN and/or GitHub. Reference documentation: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious Tutorial: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious/lib/Mojolicious/Lite.pm

José and Bruno wrote: Our proposal listed as deliverables documentation detailing: Installation CookBook: Using Perlbal as a reverse proxy Using Perlbal as a load balancer Using Perlbal as a web server Managing and configuring Perlbal on-the-fly Writing Plugins Perlbal's Architecture at a glance We have documented: Installation Configuring Perlbal as a Reverse Proxy Configuring Perlbal as a Web Server Configuring Perlbal as a Load Balancer Configuring Perlbal as a Selector

Kartik Thakore reported: SDLx-Widget 0.07 released Allows Textbox and Menu abstractions SDL 2.524 releases Fix more memory problems