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 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

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

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

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