I am pleased to announce that Solomon Foster has successfully completed his Hague Grant for "Numeric and Real Support":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/hague-grant-application-numeri.html. I would like to thank Solomon and his grant manager, Jonathan Worthington, for all their work on this project. Solomon Foster writes: Introduction While I worked on this grant, Rakudo has matured into a capable compiler ready to go out into the world as Rakudo Star. The work done under this

Dear Perl Community, The grants committee got back to the usual request for grant proposals. This quarter we have nine interesting proposals. Unfortunately we will not be able to fund them all. Therefore, we would love to read your comments on the grant proposals, so that we would be aware of how the community is interested in these grant deliverables. Please, be respectful on your comments. Perl 6 Tablets by

Perl 6 book in russian Name: Naim Shafiev, Zahatski Aliaksandr Email: Amount Requested: 2000 Synopsis Perl6 has reached development stage when on it is possible to program. The release of the version "Rakudo Star" for developers confirms it. At the given stage of development of language, it is important that the information on it was as it is possible is accessible to programmers, and also that who is interested in

YAC Name: Ricardo Filipo Email: Amount Requested: US$ 3.000 Synopsis A realy killer CMS. So simple! So usefull! use YAC; my $web new YAC; $web-> run go to web! Benefits to the Perl Community A CMS can be a web tool used in some internet business to help and administer media publication. As a market lider let's consider Drupal a php based CMS, reference product used by everywere, a key

Improve Parrot Embed/Extend Subsystem Tests and Documentation Name: Jonathan "Duke" Leto. Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis Currently the Parrot Embedding subsystem is under-tested and under-documented. This grant proposes to add documentation for all public Embed/Extend API functions, write tests to increase the code coverage statistics for the Embed/Extend API to at least 95%, and update the Parrot Developer Docs where errors or omissions are found. Any bugs found on the

CPAN to deb autopackaging Name: Jozef Kutej Email: Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis The aim of the project would be to create automatic CPAN distribution to Debian deb packaging system. Then use it to autopackage and backport at least 50% of the CPAN distributions resulting in a Debian repository with multiple thousand Perl related packages. Benefits to the Perl Community Debian+Ubuntu operating systems are very popular among Perl developers. According to

Perlbal documentation Name: José Castro Bruno Martins Email: Amount Requested: USD 2.500 Synopsis Perlbal! "It processes hundreds of millions of requests a day just for LiveJournal, Vox and TypePad and dozens of other "Web 2.0" applications." It works great as a load balancer, wonderfully as a reverse proxy, marvellously as a web server. If you know how to use it. Perlbal lacks the documentation for even the simplest of tasks.

Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl Name: Kartik Thakore Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis This project will improve the Game Development tutorials for Perl using the SDL library. The primary goal is to introduce newcomers to Game Development in Perl. The secondary goal is to attract people to try Perl as a Game Scripting and Prototyping language. 2>The Background of SDL Perl SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Library, and

Grant Proposal for SF.pm Funding Name: Fred Moyer Email: Amount Requested: $2,500 Synopsis #!/usr/bin/sf/perl use strict; use warnings; use PM; use App::PM::Announce; use DateTime; use LWP; my $group PM->new foreach my $month qw my $date DateTime->new my @speakers qw my @dinners qw my @drinks qw my $count int ->content m/ \sPerl\sMongers/s my $meeting $group->meeting->new food $dinners attendee_count $count,

FRDCSA Initial Release Name: Andrew John Dougherty Email: Amount Requested: $2250 $750 is how much is needed to release it, but a full computation of its value is not known to me although the OFCS system designed by Teddy Goldenberg and soon-to-be implemented by the system-implementor codebase would be able to make a more informed estimate. Synopsis The FRDCSA consists of, among other things, over 1700 Perl5 modules in various

Perl 6 Tablets Name: Herbert Breunung Email: Amount Requested: $840 Synopsis A thematically sorted Perl 6 compendium/lexicon, readable like a in depth tutorial, but optimized for finding missing bits of information. Appendices give several angles to search content. Benefits to Perl 6 Development Easy accessible perl6docs help people who write software and tests in perl 6, for newcomer its easier to spark interest and entry the dev team and it

Leon Timmermans sent an update report on his work, that I transcribe bellow. bq. I've been working on porting it to Windows. After a number of bugfixes it compiled, but ExtUtils::CBuilder has linking issues with C++ on Windows that I don't quite grok yet. I've also added a dist target to my Build so now I can actually easily publish it to CPAN; I was planning to do that as

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some

If you weren't at "YAPC::NA 2010":http://yapc2010.com/yn2010/, then you probably missed the announcement that the location and dates for YAPC::NA 2011 have been decided. Chris Prather and "Dahut.pm":http://dahut.pm.org/ have won the bid to host YAPC::NA 2011 in "Asheville, North Carolina":http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=asheville,+nc&sll=35.56798,-82.529297&sspn=0.718269,0.918732&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Asheville,+Buncombe,+North+Carolina&z=11. Mark your calendars because the conference dates have already been decided and will be June 27 July 1 2011. Congratulations to Dahut.pm on hosting the next YAPC::NA!

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Jonathan Worthington. 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 Jonathan Worthington Project Title Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes Synopsis As Rakudo gains features, its relatively low performance is increasingly being

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. This month was mainly spent on overload and symbol table bugs. Over the first 17 weeks I have now averaged about 17 hours per week, slightly less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 55% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/06/01 to 2010/06/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq.

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Patrick Michaud. 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: Patrick Michaud Project Title: Lists, Iterators, and Parcels Synopsis 7, 8, and other general Rakudo improvements Project Overview: This project will

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2010. 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.

Leon sent me some updates on his grant: bq. _I've been less productive than previous period this time, mainly due to school obligations. I've improved the Build system and the file layout. I've added some tests for regular expressions, which uncovered a number of bugs that seem to be fixed by now. Unless I uncover more bugs the regexps are finished. I've also done some testing on windows, with limited

Michael Schwern is working on Test::Builder 2 for about two years. But we found him on YAPC and asked for a report on the project status. He answered to our request and wrote "this report":http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/40421.

A few weeks ago, Eric sent me this update for his Grant: bq. I apologize that I have not been in contact recently regarding the TPF grant for documenting WxPerl. I would like you and the Foundation to know that I am once again working on the project after my unfortunate hiatus. bq. I have posted some of the documentation to the WxPerl wiki at http://wxperl.pvoice.org, specifically the following: bq.

The "Perl 5 Wiki":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5 has been upgraded from Socialtext v2.14 to Socialtext v4.2 "Socialtext Inc":http://socialtext.com has graciously provided free hosting of the "Perl 5 Wiki":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5 on their hosted wiki service. Many thanks to Socialtext's Staff, "Ingy döt Net":http://ingy.net/, "Jesse Vincent":http://www.fsck.com/, and "Karen Pauley":http://martian.org/karen/ for technical help and direction. Wiki "data is freely available":http://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?perl_5_wiki#open_data through an API for the community to use as it pleases. "List of Socialtext release notes.":http://www.socialtext.net/help-en/?action=search&scope=&searchterm=%22release+notes+for%22

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Gabor Szabo. 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. Grant title: Perl Ecosystem development group Name: Gabor Szabo Amount requested: $25,000 Synopsis: One of the objectives of the Ian Hague donation of

I am pleased to announce that we have made a donation to the "Enlightened Perl Organisation's":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ "Send-a-Newbie":http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/index.html program. This community initiative was started last year by Edmund von der Burg and this year is being run by the "Enlightened Perl Organisation":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/index.html. Its aim is to provide financial assistance to community members who would love to attend "YAPC::Europe":http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ye2010/ and have never attended any large Perl conference before. Donations to the program

Curtis Jewell finished his work on the Corporate, Embedded and Muti-user Strawberry Perl. You can read a detailed report on his blog

Just a reminder about the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call For Venue... Entries can be submitted now through June 1st 2010 to the TPF conferences group: tpf-conferences perl org. We hope to announce the winners at "this year's YAPC::NA in Columbus, Ohio":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/. Are you ready to get started? First off, you will want to "review the bidding details at yapc.org":http://yapc.org/yapcna.html. While there, you'll also find links to the

Kieren has posted his Week 2 Report on the Perl Survey, and is very happy with the responses so far: 2500 responses in under a week. With just another week to run, he's hoping to get responses from users outside the core community, so please pass along a link to the Perl Survey to the Perl users you know.

Kieren Diment's Perl Survey Grant work has led to the first new Perl Survey since the original 2007 survey. You can take the survey, and we encourage you to do so. Kieren hopes to deliver early analysis of the gathered data in early June at the German Perl Workshop. You can read Kieren's announcement in his own words on his blog.

Ricardo Signes reports that all work on his 2010 Q1 grant to improve the Dist::Zilla distribution builder is complete, with all work complete, tested, and released for some time into the CPAN. His complete and detailed final report can be read online.

Although grant managers should report regularly on grantees progress, given some extra work on TPF Grants Committee regarding the new operation rules, I would like to make a small report on which grants are TPF currently funding and what is their status. This list starts from oldest to newest: Test::Builder 2 by Michael Schwern Schwern does not give feedback for a long time. Please push him personally. Thanks. The Perl

As well as the approval of the new Grant Committee rules and our attempt to close long running grants, we are also refreshing the Grant Managers. Two of the current grant managers, Adrian Horward and Jeff Adams are stepping down. I would like to thank both of them for their fantastic work, and give special thanks to Adrian who offered to help new grantees during their first weeks of work.

In an earlier "blog post":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/updating-the-grant-process.html I stated that the Grants Committee has been working to improve the grants process. This work, along with the feedback we received from the community, has lead to two major changes to our rules of operation. Historically we paid 50% of the grant up-front which led to situations where we paid grantees for little or no results. In future grants will be paid upon completion.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. I continued working my way through the list of tie bugs, then towards the end of the month, got sucked into spending quite a bit of time on a regexp bug. I also spent a bit of time revisiting some earlier fixes of mine where issues showed up once we got 5.12 released and

Unfortunately Sebastian Riedel had some health problems during this year and that affected, as expected, everything on his life. Nevertheless, he intends to finish his work with TPF and expects to get results during next June. So, expect news soon.

Curtis sent us some new updates on his grant. Details follow: There were two issues still not complete on my last report: 1. Can be installed to any drive This has finally been completed, and the 5.12.0 versions of Strawberry Perl April 2010 Beta 2 will have this code. The actual restriction on usable directories is that the path installed into cannot have spaces

I am pleased to announce that "The Perl Foundation":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ and "Parrot Foundation":http://parrot.org/foundation have had 10 projects accepted for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/. Student: Justin Hunter Project Title: "Rework Catalyst framework's instance initialisation code to provide more flexible and extensible inversion of control":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763632 Mentor: Florian Ragwitz Student: Tyler Curtis Project Title: "A PAST Optimization Framework for Parrot":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763715 Mentor: chromatic Student: Nat Tuck Project Title: "Hybrid Threads for Parrot":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763672 Mentor:

TPF is helping to sponsor a Perl Booth at "LinuxTag":http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/, Berlin, which takes place from the 9th 12th June. "Gabor":http://szabgab.com/blog/2010/04/1271829580.html and the events team are looking for more volunteers. If you are available to help out please add your details to the "event co-ordination":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events_2010_linuxtag_berlin page on the Perl Foundation wiki. #events

The promised new Dist::Zilla tutorial has been posted on the new Dist::Zilla home page. Rik has been engaged to speak about YAPC and OSCON about Dist::Zilla, and this talk, complete with voiceover, will be released publicly after the events. The only remaining task for the Dist::Zilla grant is the overhaul of the new subcommand to dzil.

Philippe Bruhat wrote: "While YAPC::Europe 2010 preparations are well underway in Pisa, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation to look for suitable sites for the 2011 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2011 should send a brief statement of intent to venue at yapceurope.org. This should be followed by a complete application. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2010. For details on how to prepare your

Heath Bair writes: "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ is almost here! June 21st 23rd 2010 is quickly approaching and "Columbus.pm":http://columbus.pm.org/ is getting very excited. Hotel reservation information is available, dorm reservation details are up and ready, and the conference is quickly approaching. For everyone still looking for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ details here is what we have planned. The "conference":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/wiki?node=ConferenceSummary will be held in the brand new beautiful The Ohio State Union. The main "dorm

Yesterday, Jesse Vincent announced the release of Perl 5.12.0. This is an exciting time for Perl 5 with development switching from feature-driven releases to time-based ones. You can download this release from http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.0/ or your local CPAN mirror. A complete list of the changes can be found in perl5120delta. We would like to thank Jesse and the development team for all their hard work and we look forward to seeing

During March Dave Mitchell started working on the "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant-proposal-fixing-perl5-co.html grant. As requested he has been posting weekly reports to the p5p "mailing list":http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ and has provided a monthly summary report for posting here. Dave Mitchell writes: A rough summary of activity in March: first, I tagged all new/open tickets with severity medium with one or more types At the same time, I closed any of those tickets

TPF is proud to announce the completion of Gerard Goossen grant. As Gerard sent a big report, please check the complete report on the extended new page. I would like to thank you both Gerard for completing the grant, and Jeff Horwitz for managing it. Below are my results of the "Changing the Perl 5 optree build process into a Abstract Syntax Tree generation and a code generation step" grant.

The Perl Foundation Grants Committee is searching for Grant Managers GM are volunteers that help the interaction between TPF Grantees and TPF GC. GM are assigned to a set of grantees, and GM are responsible for poking Grantees from time to time asking for progress reports, and publishing them on this blog. They are also responsible for dispatch Grantees payments together with TPF Treasurer. If you might be interested in

Today is the last day to "submit a talk proposal for YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/newtalk in Columbus, Ohio.

Leon Timmermans writes: As you may have noticed I've been out of the running for some time but I'm back at the project now for a few weeks and things seem to be going pretty ok. Here's an overview of where I'm currently standing. Documentation: Right now this is where I think most work remains. I've been working on it recently, and will continue doing that in the next couple

Ricardo has now been working on his grant for nearly four weeks. Of the nine inch-stones included in the original proposal, five are complete One has had work done against it, but as more input has been gathered on how to proceed, it's become clear that the rest of this work will be done outside the scope of the grant. Two goals remain to be done, as does the user's

The time has come for the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call For Venue! Entries can be submitted now through June 1st 2010 to the TPF conferences group: tpf-conferences perl org. We hope to announce the winners at "this year's YAPC::NA in Columbus, Ohio":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/. Are you ready to get started? First off, you will want to "review the bidding details at yapc.org":http://yapc.org/yapcna.html. While there, you'll also find links to

Over the past few months the Grants Committee has been working to improve our grants process. Our main problem is that we have a very low completion rate for grants. In the past couple of years only 25% of the grants awarded by the Grants Committee have been completed. Not surprisingly we feel that the current system should be changed. There are a number of different problems. We have been

The response to the call for paper for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010 has been excellent so far; however, it is quickly drawing to a close. You have one week left to "submit your talk":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/newtalk for YAPC::NA 2010!

At our recent Board meeting Jim Brandt stepped down as President and Kurt DeMaagd stepped down as Treasurer. We would like to thank Jim and Kurt for all their hard work. Jim became President in July 2009 after holding the post of Vice-President and will continue to serve as a Director on the Board. Kurt has been Treasurer of TPF since it was created in September 2000. This is a

I am pleased to announce that Solomon Foster's Hague Grant application for "Numeric and Real Support":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/hague-grant-application-numeri.html#comments has been accepted. Jonathan Worthington has agreed to be the grant manager for this project. I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on this proposal.

I am delighted to announce that TPF has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/. "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/ is a program that offers stipends to student developers for writing code for open source software projects. Last year we had nine projects accepted and we would love to have more this year. "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/ is our chief organizer and he is looking for "mentors":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc_mentors

Ricardo began work on his grant at the beginning of the month and has made steady progress, completing the first two deliverables and has begun writing core tests, which should be done over the next few weeks. Has published status updates every few days so far and plans to continue doing so.

While TPF grant program has as its main goal the motivation of Perl users to perform new and challenging projects for the Perl Community, sometimes it fails. Fortunately it doesn't happen with all grantees and all the time. This time I am closing two grants from Vadim Konovalov: Tcl/Tk Access in Rakudo and Perl Cross-Compilation for WinCE and Linux We, at TPF, know that Vadim did some work on both

Curtis Jewell just sent TPF an update on his grant: The 5 main points of my grant, as far as releasing an improved Strawberry Perl, were: "Is compiled as a "merge module" file that can be included in other .msi files, as well as an independent .msi file." This was done as of the January 2010 release of Strawberry Perl, although I'm not publicizing it heavily until the April

Kieren is presently finalizing code for the new Perl Survey and plans to have the new system up and operating soon, when he will conduct a pilot program to shake out the kinks in the project. After that, all that remains is to react to the results of the pilot, run the survey proper, and analyze the final data gathered from it. The source code is currently visible on GitHub.

Earlier this year Renée Bäcker from "$foo":http://www.perl-magazin.de/ magazine interviewed Richard Dice and me to find out our thoughts on TPF in 2009 and our hopes going forward. An "English version":http://downloads.foo-magazin.de/InterviewTPF_III.pdf of the interview is available online.

I am pleased to announce that David Mitchell's "grant application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/grant_proposal_fixing_perl5_co.html has been successful. I would like to thank all the community members who took time to provide feed-back on this proposal and "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/ whose generous contribution to TPF has allowed us to fund this grant.

Alan Haggai's work on the Archive::Zip library is complete. Numerous onerous bugs have been corrected, and the library can now handle far more kinds of data. A developer release should reach the CPAN soon, hopefully to be followed in short order by a new complete release of the library.

We have received a Hague grant request, submitted by Solomon Foster. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Project Title: Numeric and Real Support Synopsis: This grant aims to refactor Rakudo's current numeric classes to support the Perl 6 specification's new Numeric

From "the YAPC::NA 2010 website":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/: "YAPC::NA 2010 is actively searching for sponsorship, if you or your company would interested in being a sponsor please take a look at our "Executive Summary":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/images/YAPC%20NA%20Executive%20Summary.pdf or "Sponsorship Prospectus":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/images/YAPC%20NA%20Sponsorship%20Prospectus.pdf."

This was the oldest grant running. Ingy dot net was working intermittently on it presenting some of the results that were promised in the proposal but not them all. TPF and Ingy agreed to close the grant with a half payment for the work done. Ingy wrote a report on the work done. It can be read at https://www.socialtext.net/yaml/index.cgi?requiem_for_a_grant

For this quarter TPF had 7 grant proposals, from which 5 were voted for rejection, one for acceptance, and the final one will be kept for new evaluation in the next round. The five rejected grants are: "Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_creating.html by Shlomi Fish "Enhancing CPANHQ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_enhancin.html by Shlomi Fish "perl core memory improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010q1_grant_proposal_perl_cor.html by Jim Cromie "Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_enhancing.html by Morris M. Siegel

Jonathan Worthington has successfully completed his Hague Grant for "Rakudo Signature Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/09/hague_grant_application_rakudo.html. This is his final report: Introduction A while back, I filed an "application":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/09/hague_grant_application_rakudo.html for a grant to work on a wide range of improvements to Rakudo's signature, capture and binding implementation, in order to improve performance, bring us in line with the specification and implement a range of features that we did not have support for. I have

The call for papers for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010 has been officially announced. This year's theme will be "Modern Perl". With a planned four parallel tracks each day, there are ample open slots for talks, so be sure to "submit yours today":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/newtalk.

The "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ website has been up for a while, but it is now officially integrated with "Act":http://act.mongueurs.net/. Be sure to visit soon, create an account if you don't already have one, and start getting ready for the conference. Remember that the conference is June 21st through 23rd 2010 at Ohio State University. Registration will be $100 which day-passes available. #yapc-2010-conference

David Mitchell has submitted a grant proposal, which if accepted would make use of a portion of the funding generously provided to TPF by "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com/. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Grant Title: Fixing perl5 core bugs Name: David Mitchell **Amount

For this quarter TPF has three grant proposals that were not funded in 2009Q3 round and that will be discussed and voted again in this round, and four new grant proposals: "Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_creating.html by Shlomi Fish "Enhancing CPANHQ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_enhancin.html by Shlomi Fish "perl core memory improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010q1_grant_proposal_perl_cor.html by Jim Cromie "Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_enhancing.html by Morris M. Siegel "Perl Compiler":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/02/2010_grant_proposal_perl_compi.html by Reini urban "CPAN

perl core memory improvements Name: Jim Cromie Email: Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $3000 Synopsis Memory allocation enhancements in core Perl's variable namespace model is very flexible, users can: create vars, in any package, or in my scope, by naming them; give them complex values: my $foo share/assign/shallow-copy them: $main::bar $foo; crosslink or self ref them: $a $a other hairy stuff This

Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching with Ideas from Snobol4 and Other Sources Name: Morris M. Siegel, Ph.D. Email: Amount Requested: $3000 The substance of my proposed alternative pattern-matching specification has already been essentially worked out as a self-funded research project, as it were. I felt this project was of such importance that it was worthwhile giving myself a sort of sabbatical to develop it. It has taken rather longer than

Improve Dist::Zilla's Tests, Documentation, and Structure Name: Ricardo Signes Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Dist::Zilla is a tool that helps Perl programmers build distributions for the CPAN. It eliminates boilerplate, handles packaging, interfaces with changelogs and version control, improves prerequisite management, and generally makes it easier to be a CPAN author. This grant will fund work to make it easier for new users to adopt Dist::Zilla and for Dist::Zilla itself

CPAN reviews Name: Alexandr Ciornii Email: Amount Requested: $1200 Synopsis Many CPAN modules have good documentation, many have bad documentation. But there is no such thing as enough documentation. There are many good reviews, examples, descriptions outside CPAN. I propose to collect them and cataloguize. I want to make a site with links to reviews of CPAN modules. In general this site should be community-moderated, community-edited and allow users adding

Perl Compiler Name: Reini urban Email: Duration: Until March 2011 Amount Requested: $1000 Synopsis Fix most of the remaining perl compiler, i.e. B::C, B::CC, B::Bytecode bugs. Improve documentation a bit. Maintain the planned compiler.perl.org site. Benefits to the Perl Community A working compiler. Faster startup time. Optionally faster run-time if the B::CC optimizations work out as expected. parrot? I've worked with them. I gave up. Better a half-ass perl5 compiler

NOTE: **perl.org Request Tracker was down for about a week As this happened in the last days of the call for grants period we are extending it till the end of the week The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February/March 2010. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl

The dates for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://yapc2010.com/ were announced recently. The conference will be the week of June 20th 2010 at Knowlton Hall on the Campus of the Ohio State University. The primary conference days will be June 21st, 22nd, 23rd, but if history tells us anything, there will be events, classes, and hackathons spread out for days before and after the official conference. #perl-conference-yapc

I am pleased to announce that TPF will be represented for the first time this year at "CeBIT":http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e. The conference is taking place between the 2nd and 6th of March in Hannover, Germany. The events team is still looking for more volunteers to staff the booth. If you want to help out you'll find information on the "events mailing list":http://www.mail-archive.com/events@lists.perlfoundation.org/ and the "events wiki":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events.

Over the past few weeks discussions have been taking place on our Marketing list regarding different ways to promote Perl. One idea we are running with is promoting Perl at technical conferences where the main focus isn't Perl. Gabor has "announced":http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/12/1260171050.html that there will be a Perl booth at "FOSDEM":http://www.fosdem.org/2010/ in February next year. This is, hopefully, the first of many conferences that are targeted. To help co-ordinate our efforts

Eric Wilhelm has finished his grant "improving learn.perl.org":http://news.perlfoundation.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=18&tag=learn.perl.org&limit=20". He has written six tutorials from "Getting Started with Perl" to "Your First GUI Desktop Application". The six tutorials are "Getting Started with Perl":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/getting_started/ "Control, Structures, Scoping, and Subroutines":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/csss/ "Using and Creating Modules":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/modules/ "An Introduction to Objects":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/objects/ "Perl/CPAN Configuration Howto":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/configuration/ "Your First GUI Desktop Application":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/wxperl/ The tutorials are currently hosted "http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com, but if Eric finds a better permanent home for them, he

Follows the update from Vadim on his grant: I've implemented 'call' method for interpreter object, which takes already parsed parameters and passes them to tcl/tk interpreter. It is similar to 'eval' method, but it should be faster, and also safer to use, because there will be no need to protect/escape special characters before calls. Also, widget calls to tcl/tk library are based on this method. Also, 'tk' widgets could be

Eric Roode sent the following update: bq. The status is basically that the writing is taking much, much longer than I had expected. I had thought I'd be able to document a couple classes per hour; instead, it's taking me a few hours per class. I don't really know what to do to speed up the process, so I am just continuing to plug along. At the rate I'm going,

Given my high amount of work at the moment and the big number of grants not finished I decided to skip the fourth call for grants for 2009. I am sorry for any inconvenience.

As you might have seen already, www.perl.org got a new look thanks to Foxtons and Leo Lapworth, Stephen Morgan and Cameron Richmond.

Over the last two weeks, Eric has done a lot of things... bq. I've added the "CPAN and Perl Configuration Howto" to the site. Feedback so far has been good. I'm waiting to hear if there are stumbling points or if it leaves any important questions unanswered. bq. "http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/configuration/":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/configuration/ bq. The "Control, Structures, Scoping and Subroutines" tutorial is now complete. bq. "http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/csss/":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/tutorials/csss/ bq. I've finished writing the tutorials and am

The "Frozen Perl 2010":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/ workshop is scheduled for Saturday, February 6th at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN. The organizers just put out their "call for speakers":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/cfs.html a day or so ago. If you have no fear of freezing temperatures and want to attend or speak at a great Perl workshop, check it out. Also, the are still "looking for sponsors":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/sponsorship.html if you'd like to help

It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce, on behalf of Ricardo Signes, that the TPF-funded work on Pod::Elemental and Pod::Weaver is complete! Here's his final report: Just a few days after predicting that the months-old grant was half done, it became quite clear that the first half was much, much more difficult than the second. The initial grant proposal listed the following targets: clearly defined and

Eric sent me this update: bq. I've sent a handful of changes to Robert and have been asked not to change the page style as apparently there's some other initiative going on. bq. The perl-org-patches list has generated some conflicting changes for the new /tutorials/ page as well as the index.html and I'm trying to resolve that content. The "learnperl.scratchcomputing.com":http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com front page has a sketch of where I'm wanting the

After a strong start, work on Pod::Elemental and Pod::Weaver was quickly derailed by conference season, and then by a few non-technical distractions. I've gotten back to work, though, and quite a lot of progress has been made. The second major goal, "extensive tests for Pod::Elemental," is basically complete. Pod::Elemental is fairly well defined, documented, and tested, and can now be used to perform significant document mangling. The "PodPurler" for Dist::Zilla

Now that I've joined the Board of Directors for the Perl Foundation, my first action was to propose a marketing committee be set up and the board approved the proposal. It's an ambitious goal, but a useful one. In the past, we've merely had a single PR person such as Andy Lester or Joshua McAdams. The problem with this approach is that there is simply too much for them to

Kieren Diment reports that the Perl Survey is ready for deployment. He's been hardening the application against abuse by bots, simplifying the original set of demographic questions, and writing new survey questions. Kieren hopes to be freer from distraction as work continues through the end of the year.

This year's Google Summer of Code has ended. We would like to thank "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/, the mentors, and the students for all their hard work. Jonathan has written an excellent summary of the project, "Perls of Wisdom: The Perl Foundation Parrot's Google Summer of Code":http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/10/perls-of-wisdom-perl-foundation-parrots.html, and the code is also "available":http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2009-tpf/downloads/list. We hope to participate in this project again next year and if you are interested in working with us

Eric sent this update: bq. I've written Combust::Spontaneously to make it possible for anyone to get a local apache-less server running perl.org's templating system in under 5 minutes. It is now on the CPAN. bq. With that, I've been doing some work on the stylesheet and navigation on the combust templates from learn.perl.org and starting to port some of my content into it. bq. --Eric More info about this

As part of a renewed effort to expand the membership of the "Board":http://www.perlfoundation.org/who_s_who we are pleased to announce the addition of Curtis "Ovid" Poe as our newest Director. Ovid is not new to The Perl Foundation, having been involved with the grants committee since 2003, and we are delighted that he is willing to take on this role. His first task will be to work with Dan Magnuszewski to expand

Every year during conference season, we assess positions in TPF that we need to fill and take advantage of in-person meetings at conferences to try to find candidates. Now that we've worked through that cycle, I'm happy to announce some volunteers in new positions. Josh McAdams is moving from PR to Conference Chair and anyone who enjoyed the 2 YAPC::NAs in Chicago knows he's a natural for this position. Long-time

Jonathan Worthington writes: Introduction bq. If it weren't for the fact that you said you were going to do it, I would've doubted it could be done at all in current Parrot. pmichaud In many senses, this "Hague Grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_request_tra.html was rather more challenging than my "last one":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html. In the course of it, I've been dealing with major changes to some of the things most fundamental to any Perl

Below is the latest Hague grant request, submitted by Jonathan Worthington. Please feel free to comment below. h2. Project Title Rakudo Signature Improvements h2. Synopsis This grant aims to increase correctness, completeness, stability and performance of Rakudo's implementation of signatures and signature binding. h2. Benefits to Perl 6 Development Rakudo has continued to make impressive progress in recent months, and recently the Rakudo team, of which I am a part,

Dear all, sorry for the delay. August was a complicated month. It is the Conference month and the Vacation month. But I think it was worth waiting for. This quarter TPF will fund three grants: "Corporate, Embedded, and Multi-user Perl on Windows":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_corporat.html by Curtis Jewell. This grant will be co-funded by TPF and Adam Kennedy. "wxPerl documentation":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/wxperl_documentation.html by Eric J. Roode. "Changing the Perl 5 optree build process into a

This is the last post presenting a report for all grants at once. Future reports will be posted by respective grant managers whenever they have relevant news. TPF expects grantees to report at least once each month. If you are a grantee, please, easy the task of your grant manager sharing news with him. If you are a grant manager and your grantee does not report for a long time,

After three extenuating days at YAPC::EU::2009, and after some rest time, finally had the time to prepare the list of grant proposals for the third quarter of 2009. We have seven proposals, that can be read in this blog: perl core memory improvements by Jim Cromie wxPerl Documentation by Eric J. Roode Improve the visual design of Perl websites by Jon Allen Corporate, Embedded, and Multi-user Perl on Windows by

Name: Jim Cromie Email: Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $3000K Synopsis Memory allocation enhancements in core Perl is greedy wrt recycling sv-bodies; freed bodies are returned to an interpreter-global freelist, where they hang until process termination. Workloads which rotate through large populations of each body-type would be badly limited; there would be no memory left. While this workload profile is arbitrary, so is the limitation. More to

Name: Eric J. Roode, ROODE on CPAN. Email: or Amount Requested: $2500 for Q3 2009. Synopsis Write a lot of much-needed documentation for wxPerl. Benefits to the Perl Community Perl has a reputation as a language that is not suited for GUI development. This is silly; Perl is as suited for GUI as any other language. But the learning curve for most of Perl's GUI toolkits is steep,

Name: Jon Allen Email: Amount Requested: USD 3,000 Synopsis Produce a modern, visually appealing set of templates, stylesheets, and other assets that Perl website owners can easily use and adapt to achieve a stylish look and feel, regardless of the back-end technologies powering each individual site. Benefits to the Perl Community Presentation and visual design forms a strong and lasting impression on website visitors. Unfortunately, the 1990s style of many

Name: Curtis Jewell Email: Amount Requested: US $5000. Synopsis Enhance Strawberry Perl so that it can be customized for different environments, and silently embedded inside of other corporate and open source projects. Benefits to the Perl Community With the upgrade to a .msi installer for Strawberry Perl, it is now possible to solve many outstanding issues and expand Windows Perl in new directions. These include greater compatibility with corporate environments,

Name: Gerard Goossen Email: Amount Requested 5,000 Synopsis This project is to change the Perl 5 optree build process into a step where the parser generates an Abstract Syntax Tree and a step where the executable code in the form of a list of function pointers is generated from the AST. Because this project is refactoring of a major part of the Perl 5 core, a good benchmark of

Name: Shlomi Fish Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis CPANHQ a community-driven, meta-data-enhanced interface to CPAN. Benefits to the Perl Community The current CPAN interfaces http://search.cpan.org/ kobesearch, and the rest of the CPAN services that various individuals have set up are not integrated, are not based on enough meta-data, are not enough community-driven and are generally lacking. As a result of all this, some people started the "Rethinking CPAN" effort: http://www.google.com/search

Name: Shlomi Fish Email: Amount Requested: $1500. Synopsis Develop a powerful Foreign Function Interface for Perl 5, similar to Python's ctypes. Benefits to the Perl Community ctypes provides a very handy way to call hard-coded subroutines in shared libraries, but only for Python. Having a similar module for Perl will benefit Perl 5 programmers who will be able to call subroutines in C and similar compiled languages from their Perl

Dear all, I am sorry to inform that I am busy with YAPC::EU::2009 organization. This means that this time we will not have grants updates, and that grants evaluation for this quarter will start later two weeks. #grants

Conference season is in full swing and the next event that you might be interested in is "YAPC::EU 2009":http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/. This year's conference is going to be in Lisbon, Portugal and will be loaded with days of Perl programming talks and events. The theme this year is 'Corporate Perl'. Some featured presentations include Larry Wall's opening keynote, "Damian Conway's 'The Missing Link'":http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/talk/2088, and José Castro's closing keynote. You can check out

We've all seen various tickers like this "deficit tracker":http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/ticker_home.asp which track negative things to raise awareness. How hard would it be to create a CPAN ticker? Something like ticker.cpan.org to show distributions, etc. as they increase. Then maybe specific ones like ticker.cpan.org/Moose to watch distributions?

A few months ago, Nicholas Clark posted "an interesting plan":http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/05/msg146785.html to spend some of TPF's money. In fact, it's so interesting, we're going to try to take him up on it. At "YAPC::NA 2009":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/ this year, I sat down with Mark Keating, acting on behalf of the "Enlightened Perl":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ group, and we agreed to work on something like this: Mark and company will build a web app to manage the

Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates from Ingy. 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 from Grant Manager. h3. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern No updates from Schwern. h3. "Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince":http://www.perlfoundation.org/vadim_konovalov_perl_cross_compilation_for_linux_and_wince Vadim Konovalov No updates from Vadim. If you know Vadim, please poke him. We need to know what is happening with him. h3.

There's been a bit of activity on the TPF Board over the past few weeks, so here's a summary of the current membership: Chairman: Nat Torkington has replaced Bill Odom as chairman. President: The TPF board has approved the "revised grant proposal":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/continued_review_of_tpf_grant.html from Richard Dice to do TPF infrastructure work and a condition of the approval is that he not be a sitting member of the board while working on

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 Alan Haggai has been improving the new named argument features and adding lots of automated tests. A new release of Archive::Zip, with many of his improvements, is now available on the CPAN. Currently he is updating the POD to reflect the changes. Next he will

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.

We are excited to announce that "Columbus, Ohio Perl Mongers":http://columbus.pm.org/ will be the hosts of "YAPC::NA 2010":http://yapc2010.com/. They came in a very close second in last year's bidding and came back this year with an excellent proposal that sets the stage for a great YAPC::NA 2010 in Columbus. Congratulations Columbus!

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.

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,

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

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

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

It's that time again! Welcome to another Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call for Venue. Do you want to bring hundreds of Perl geeks to your city? If so, then please consider submitting your bid for YAPC::NA 2010. Similar to last year, the deadline for submissions is June 10 and the winning bid will be announced at "this year's conference in Pittsburgh":http://yapc10.org/. How do you get started? Please review

The Perl Foundation will have a booth at OSCON again this year. The booth always serves as a great meeting place for those of us in the Perl community, but beyond that, it tends to be a little confused as to its purpose. We know that we want to show other OSCON attendees that the Perl community is an active community that is on the cutting edge of technology. We

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Back a few months ago I was interviewed by Renée Bäcker, the publisher of "$foo, the German language Perl magazine":http://perl-magazin.de/. The issue with that interview is just about to be released. You can read the "English version of the interview":http://downloads.foo-magazin.de/InterviewRichardDice2.pdf online. Understandably the interview talks about TPF's perspective on Perl through 2008 and other news and happenings in Perl and TPF.

Earlier this past week I submitted a proposal to the TPF Board of Directors; the PDF of this proposal is attached here. The plan includes a long list of projects, most of which have been discussed within TPF for a while but have been on indefinite hold due mainly to lack of available effort to address them properly. Some are for TPF process improvement and others are in more direct

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

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:

The "Nordic Perl Workshop":http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2009/ will be taking place this week on Thursday and Friday in Oslo, Norway. The theme for this year's conference is "Your Future with Perl". The focus will be on Perl 6, Rakudo, Parrot, and modern ways of using Perl 5. A three day Perl 6 and Enlightened Perl "Hackathon":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?oslo_perl_6_hackaton_2009 will follow the workshop. If you are interested in finding out more about this, take a look

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.

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

There is still time to apply to take part in this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. Don't forget student applications must be "submitted":http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009 by April 3rd, 12 Noon, PDT.

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

We are delighted to announce that TPF has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. We would like to thank everyone involved, especially "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/ for all his hard work in coordinating this project. If you are a student, and would like more information on taking part, please read Jonathan's article on "applying for GSoC with The Perl Foundation":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/applying-to-google-summer-of-c.html.

The dates and pricing for the "tenth annual YAPC::NA":http://yapc10.org/yn2009 have been announced. This year's conference will be held at at "Carnegie Mellon University":http://www.cmu.edu/ in Pittsburgh, PA on from June 22nd through June 24th. Registration is open with early bird pricing happening now. Also, "the call for papers":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/cfp.html is open through Friday, 24 April 2009. The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference with its roots in the

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.

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 really coming together. Over 95% of the code is ported. I only port code once I have a failing test written to exercise that code. Just need to figure out how to tickle the other 5%. I plan on putting a big push in this weekend to get a release candidate version of YAML::Perl onto CPAN. The

I used to think that there was a conference season and that it took place in the summer. Now in the Perl world we have so many grass-root events taking place that the whole year is our conference season. So far this year we have already had "Perl Oasis":http://perloasis.org/opw2009/ in Orlando, "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2009/ in Minneapolis, the "Bulgarian Perl Workshop":http://event.perlbulgaria.org/sofia2009/, the "German Perl Workshop":http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009/index.html, and the "Belgian Perl Workshop":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/. Today the

These are the results for the first round of 2009 grants requests: Rejected Proposals: CPAN::Forum development Codewalker Interactive Perl Interpreter Awareness and Utilization of Perl in Nigeria: A Survey OPener Chat OPener Package Inline C++/CLI Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Funded proposals: Improving learn.perl.org, by Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Web.pm a lightweight web framework for Perl 6, by Ilya Belikin, Carl Mäsak and Stephen Weeks Still

Follows the fourth grants updates report. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan has finished adding support for archives with unicode filenames on Windows, and is now tackling the Perl side, making it possible to create archives with unicode filenames in them. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith No updates. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern No updates. "Perl cross-compilation

Project: Simple Meta Object Programming Grantee: Daniel Ruoso Grant Manager Jeff Horwitz Started: August, 2008 Finished: February, 2009 Follows the conclusion report, by Daniel Ruoso. Ok, I'll try to summarize what happened in the last 7 months We're actually in a point where it's not worth writing any other types in C. The amount of abstractions already demands us to write the built-in types in Perl 6, and there is

Follows the third grants updates report. This time at Saturday, as yesterday was Grants Proposals day. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy moved recently for Europe. He expects to deliver news really soon. "SMOP":http://www.perlfoundation.org/smop_simple_meta_object_programming Daniel Ruoso No update. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan added Unicode support under Windows to extractTree and addTree. Now, he is trying to get other methods to support

Is that time again. The deadline for grant proposals submissions ended six days ago, and now they are available for comment during a week. Please use each proposal post to comment about that project. Please do not post with simple messages as "I like it", or "+1". If you like it, state why you do. That is what will help us voting, not just another person name associated to the

Name: Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Revamp the learn.perl.org website to be more inviting to new users of Perl by creating a new series of articles which form a coherent and fun tutorial arc. Benefits to the Perl Community The learn.perl.org site should be a welcoming, fun, and educational experience for new users, complete with exciting projects and straightforward instructions to make it easier to

Name: Peter Odigie. Email: Where we can contact you! Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $2500 Synopsis A short description. A survey to capture the awareness and use of perl by IT workers in the Nigerian public and private sector. Benefits to the Perl Community Why should the Perl Community grant this project? Nigeria is the biggest country in Africa with a lot of business opportunities. What happens

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 one of the key

Name: Erik Osheim Email: Amount Requested: $1000 Synopsis This project aims to build an interactive interpreter for Perl. The goals of this project are to allow pasted Perl code to run line-by-line as it would be in a Perl script, provide tab completion and introspection at least equal to that provided by the Perl debugger, to provide documentation and packaging, and lastly a package to help with introspection. Benefits to

dl> Name: Wang Lei Email: Amount Requested: 2000USD Synopsis Opener Chat is a kind of multi-user and multi-protocol online communication software which is like Pidgin Opener Chat is completely written in Perl which consists of the graphical interface part and net part. We use the module of win32::GUI to carry its interface into effect, so this software can only run on the win32 platform. This project has started a period

Name: Wang Lei Email: Amount Requested: 3000USD Synopsis Opener package is a kind of software for the development of Windows installers which purpose is to make easily issued installers. It is like NSIS, but the main goal of the Opener package is to make installers which program in Perl. Opener package need to use Par to carry into effect. We use Par to package the executed files. We have already

Names: Ilya Belikin, Carl Mäsak, Stephen Weeks Email: Ilya Belikin Carl Mäsak Stephen Weeks Amount Requested: $3000. Ilya: 1320$, for 12h/week. Carl: 1100$, for 10h/week. Stephen: 550$, for 5h/week. Synopsis Two years ago, Juerd proposed the Web.pm module for Perl 6. Meant to functionally replace Perl 5's CGI.pm, it is a revamping of the fundamentals in order to better serve today's web development needs. Apart from implementing a working web

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 perl 6 Wiki. See german

Name: Hugh Barnard Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Project takes code and walks the call tree producing graphviz diagrams It's a parsing and documentation project Benefits to the Perl Community It helps refresh and refactor legacy Perl code and provides clear documentation for larger Perl projects. It lessens of the perceived disadvantages of Perl, readability. Deliverables The code exists and works but my intention is to rewrite a first version

Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 3000 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. The whole idea of CPAN::Forum was to provide an alternative to setting up

Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 1500 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 the Perl Community Padre already has many features required for a text editor. Adding the debugging capabilities will allow any perl programmer to use the power of the built in debugger without the fear of the command line or

Name: John R. Hogerhuis Email: Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Benefits to the Perl Community The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to continue to use its favorite tool to solve problems on the Windows platform without giving up

Prepare for a big post! Here are the most recent updates from TPF running grants. "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl No updates this time. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Schwern update: TB2 development has been dead for the last few months, largely because I haven't been programming. I'm getting started again, I've been poking at the code again lately, and I'm making three changes to the way its developed. _1> Reigning in the TB2

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

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

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

I posted recently on use.perl asking for new Grant Managers for The Perl Foundation. We got some candidates Nuno Carvalho Renée Bäecker Scott "KONOBI" McWhirter Andrew Shitov Steve Peters Robin Berjon Makoto Nozaki David Nicol Unfortunately I did not receive all these names before starting the voting process. Nevertheless, they will be on my backup list for whenever The Perl Foundation needs new grant managers. From the list the Grant

Perl 5's revision history is now "stored in a git repository":http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git accessible to any developer around the world! Since March 1997 Perl 5 development has been done using a "Perforce":http://www.perforce.com revision control system generously hosted by "ActiveState":http://www.activestate.com. This system provided a powerful tool set for core developers, but tended to keep outside contributors at arms length. Now there is "a git repository available to anyone":http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git. The repository is hosted on

We are happy to announce that "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com has donated $50,000 to The Perl Foundation to aid in the further development and maintenance of the Perl programming language in general, and Perl 5.10 in particular. "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com is also donating hardware and sysadmin time to provide the servers for "the new git master for Perl 5":http://use.perl.org/articles/08/12/22/0830205.shtml. Booking.com is Europe's largest and fastest growing online hotel reservation service. It is based in Amsterdam,

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

"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

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.

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,

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.

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,

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Name: John R. Hogerhuis Project Title: Inline C++/CLI Synopsis: Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Name John R. Hogerhuis Project Title Inline C++/CLI Synopsis Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Benefits to the Perl Community The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to

Author: Dave Rolsky Title: Moose Documentation Improvements Synopsis: This project will improve various aspects of the Moose documentation. The primary goal is to make Moose easier to understand for newcomers. The secondary goal is for Moose and Class::MOP to provide 100% complete API documentation for spelunkers. Author Dave Rolsky Title Moose Documentation Improvements Synopsis This project will improve various aspects of the Moose documentation. The primary goal is to make

Name: Cristina Nunes Project Title: Hotel Perl Synopsis: A website where Perl mongers can: register and submit their vacant space to receive other Perl mongers traveling, search for a place to stay at another Perl monger's, announce they're looking for a place to stay at a given city/country Benefits to the Perl Community Better interaction between Perl mongers. Cut expenses when attending Perl events like conferences, workshops and/or social/technical monger

Name: Vadim Konovalov Project Title: single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and then for Linux w/o temporaries and dependencies Synopsis: Proposal is to make a distribution of Perl program with a single-file executable much like PAR approach but without any temporaries, thus having existing filesystem untouched in any way. This executable will include Tcl/Tk into it and all Perl and Tcl/Tk core scripts will be inside this executable and will be

Name: John Beppu Project Title: Squatting On Everything Synopsis: Squatting is unique among web frameworks, because it has the ability to embed itself into other frameworks. This ability has been demonstrated with the Squatting::On::Catalyst module that shows that you can take a whole Squatting application and embed it directly into a Catalyst application. I'd like to expand Squatting's range by writing adapters for more frameworks and environments. Name John Beppu

Name: Kieren Diment Project Title: The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis: In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised and administered the Perl survey to provide a snapshot of the Perl community. In particular she made significant effort to recruit as many people as possible, resulting in a sample size of around 4500 responses. While an excellent start for a design for a survey instrument, it can be improved in a

Name: Sebastian Riedel Project Title: The Mojo Documentation Project Synopsis: During the last few months i've done some self funded work on a next generation web framework named Mojo. It is now quite close to a public release and needs documentation. Name Sebastian Riedel Project Title The Mojo Documentation Project Synopsis During the last few months i've done some self funded work on a next generation web framework named Mojo.

The Minneapolis Perl Mongers are organizing Frozen Perl 2009, a one-day Perl workshop in Minneapolis on Saturday, February 07, 2009. We will have a hackathon on the Sunday after, and brian d foy of Stonehenge Consulting will be teaching a Perl class on the Friday before. You can learn more about all of these events at "the Frozen Perl website":http://www.frozen-perl.org. Registration for the workshop is now open, and the early

Michael Schwern just finished the y2038 grant. Follows a small report. The y2038 grant has shipped all its deliverables. You can read the full break down here: http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/37688 In short... There is now a patch for bleadperl to universally solve the year 2038 problem. Its integration is delayed until 5.8.9 is released. There's nothing stopping it from going into 5.10.x and 5.8.x, that's up to the pumpkings, but it is

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Grantee is without time for grant. Things are begin discussed to decide what to do. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications No updates since last update. Vadim Konovalov Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo No updates from Grant Manager. Andrew Shitov Barcode support in Act No updates from Grant Manger. Vadim Konovalov Perl cross-compilation for

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from grantee. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've been mostly busy with implementing a TAP producer to build my tests with, and with implementing tests. So far I've been mainly implementing tests for sanity and numeric behavior. On the way there I fixed a few bugs, and added

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2008. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references>. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or

From a mail on Perl 5 Porters: Attached is the latest 2038 patch from the y2038 branch. Configure now probes for the safe range of the system's localtime and gmtime Perl will use the system functions inside their safe range. Perl now ships with its own 64 bit gmtime and timegm localtime is made 2038 safe on 32 bit systems using the algorithm described here http://code.google.com/p/y2038/wiki/HowItWorks Time::Local can now handle

At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from Grant manager. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've ported it to 5.10. I haven't really tested it beyond compiling, but I don't expect difficulties there. I've worked on the exportation code. Exporting variables is now supported. I want to add member variables too, but I'm not sure