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

Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up written by Eric Wilhelm: Google's Summer of Code 2008 is wrapping up now and I'm very pleased with how well The Perl Foundation's students and mentors have done. The five projects which survived the halfway point have all finished with great results. Many thanks to all of the mentors and students as well as everyone in the community who helped or supported the

Our colleagues, the organizers of the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, asked us to help get the word out about PPW and to remind people that they are currently accepting talk proposals, up until September 12. You can get more details on their web site at "http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/":http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/ This will be the third year of the event. The past 2 years it has shown itself to be an exceptional and fun Perl gathering.

This is the final report for the Smolder grant, by Michael Peters: Here are the original deliverables from my grant proposal: Remove custom XML format in favor of using plain TAP and TAPx::Parser. Extend Smolder to handle small CPAN style modules more easily and automatically. Setup a Smolder server for the CGI::Application community to serve as a testing ground and public display for their 110+ CPAN modules. Add per-project and

Christopher Laco on Mango Grant: It has been over two years since I received a grant from the TPF to start work on Mango. What started as a fast paced 3 month project has turned into a 2 year project that has come to crawl. At this point in time, the TPF and I agree that it is best to label this project as 'done as-is' so the grant manager

This is the third biweekly report. These are the news on currently running grants: Mango Christopher Laco This grant will be closed in the next few days, and a report published here. Porting PyYAML to Perl Ingy döt Net Ingy gave some updates on his grant. YAML::XS is completed, and a pure Perl implementation is being started. A new deadline was defined: Christmas 2008. Improving Smolder Michael Peters As said

Apologies for the long delay in this report, I've had some ongoing health problems over the summer. Allison wrote this report to bring us up-to-date, and then we'll continue with the two-monthly schedule. Parrot releases continue on their monthly schedule. The 0.6.0 release in March reflected major improvements to both the Parrot VM and the Perl 6 implementation on Parrot The most notable change for Parrot was the implementation of

Unfortunately TPF is unable to fund all the proposed grants as they exceed the funds available for Grants. Thus, TPF GC ranked proposals accordingly with its relevance to the community, and the first few were funded. These are the funded proposals: "Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_perl_cro.html "Barcode support in Act":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_barcode.html "Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_tcltk_ac.html "Embedding perl into C++ applications":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_libperl.html "Extending BSDPAN":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/08/2008q3_grant_proposal_extendin.html Follow the proposals that, although accepted, will not