Name: David Moreno Title: Solidifying and Extending the Blog Normalize project Synopsis: Consolidating the base core and concepts of the Blog Normalize project, as well as building ten new two-way modules for it. Name: David Moreno Title: Solidifying and Extending the Blog Normalize project Synopsis: Consolidating the base core and concepts of the Blog Normalize project, as well as building ten new two-way modules for it. Benefits to the Perl ... read more |
Proposer: Herbert Breunung aka Project Title: Perl 6 Tables Synopsis: Translating my Perl 6 tutorial called the Perl tables. it is currently half ready in german but building up. Name: Herbert Breunung aka Project Title: Perl Tables Synopsis: Translating my Perl 6 tutorial called the Perl tables. It is currently half ready in german but building up. Benefits to the Perl Community: People will easier learn Perl 6, ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 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 ... read more |
During the last month the Grants Committee changed its composition. Two members stepped out as their professional affairs did not leave time to do a good job at this committee. To them, Hugo van der Sanden and Stas Bekman our sincere thanks for all their dedication during the last years. Two new members stepped in. They are Will "Coke" Coleda and Perrin Harkins For them our welcomes, and good work ... read more |
Yesterday, TPF received word from Google that our submission to be a participating organization in the 2008 Google Summer of Code project was accepted. Our thanks to everyone involved in the application process, but especially to Eric Wilhelm who organized and drove the effort. We will provide more details here soon. ... read more |
Parrot releases continue to come out once a month. Version 0.5.2 was released in January. The highlight of 0.5.2 for many is surely the inclusion of a perl6 make target, meaning that you can now take a Parrot release and make yourself a Perl 6 binary in just three easy steps: tar -xvzf parrot-x.x.x.tar.gz cd parrot-x.x.x perl ./Configure.pl make perl6 The end result is a perl6 binary that you can ... read more |
November and December saw the usual monthly release of Parrot. However, November's release was particularly notable, as it was version 0.5.0. The minor version number increase came because it includes an implementation of the object design as specified in PDD15. This was a major piece of work, both in the implementation, and integration with existing language implementaitons. The 0.5.1 release was also quite exciting. The major work for this release ... read more |
It gives me great pleasure to announce that, last month, Chris Dolan successfully completed his "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/04/new_grant_awards.html to write 20 Perl-Best-Practices-inspired policies for "Perl::Critic.":http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/ There are several reasons why this wasn't posted sooner, but I apologise for the delay. Chris delivered 19 out of the 20 policies originally proposed, as one of the policies was implemented by another contributor prior to the start of the grant. During the course of this ... read more |
The Parrot team has continued to make monthly releases, releasing 0.4.16 in September and 0.4.17 in October. These releases include more work on the NQP language as well as many updates and cleanups for the design documents As usual, there were also plenty of bug fixes, and in particular much of the code was reviewed as part of the effort to complete the PMC design. I'm very happy to report ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Alberto Simões to the position of Grants Committee Chair. Alberto was elected by the Grants Committee members from a pool of four strong candidates. Alberto is president of the Portuguese Association for Perl Programmers the leader of Braga.pm and the co-chair of YAPC::EU 2005 in Braga, Portugal. Alberto is a Ph.D. student in Machine Translation at the University of Minho ... read more |
In July and August, we had our monthly releases of Parrot, 0.4.14 and 0.4.15. There were various language updates, but one of these deserves special mention. The 0.4.15 release included an implementation of "Not Quite Perl". This language implements a subset of the full Perl 6 feature set, and will be used within the compiler tools for all languages running on Parrot, and as a way to bootstrap a complete ... read more |
Following on from the success of his recent XML::RSS grant Shlomi Fish has been awarded another grant to create a reusable parser for the syntax of MediaWiki the popular open-source wiki engine that powers sites such as Wikipedia and Wikiquote. The deliverables of the grant are a CPAN module and a Kwiki plugin for using this MediaWiki syntax in Kwiki wikis, enabling people to create Perl projects that can parse ... read more |
If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org by the end of August. We will be awarding the grants by the beginning of October. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read that carefully as grants are often rejected if they don't meet the criteria. For example, if ... read more |
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Chris Dolan's Policies for Perl::Critic grant awarded April 07, is now underway. Chris intends to add twenty policies that are inspired by Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices to Perl::Critic to help developers to make their code more maintainable. Chris has written the first of the twenty policies funded by the grant, Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitComplexMapping, which insists that the block argument to map has at ... read more |
May and June saw the usual monthly releases of Parrot, 0.4.12 and 0.4.13. Between these two releases, there were numerous language updates, including PHP and Lisp. On the Perl 6 front, 0.4.13 was the first release where Parrot passed the Perl 6 sanity tests. This is an exciting achievement, because it means that Parrot supports enough of Perl 6 that the developers can start using Perl 6 to bootstrap its ... read more |
Three more Perl 6 Microgrants have been awarded! Jesse Vincent of Best Practical writes: Flavio Glock will receive a travel microgrant to help him attend YAPC::EU and evangelize kp6 and the Perl 6 in Perl 6 effort. Steve Pritchard will receive a microgrant to complete the RPM packaging of Parrot and Pugs for Fedora, and to submit those packages for inclusion in the official Fedora distribution. Steve will be blogging ... read more |
Since this update is so late, I'm taking the liberty of covering three months of Parrot work, rather than two. That means this report covers February through end of April of 2007. Parrot has been sticking to its new monthly release schedule, which means that we saw three releases in this grant period, 0.4.9, 0.4.10, and 0.4.11. The highlight of this period is the finalization of the object design marking ... read more |
If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Because we're running a little late this time, submission deadline is June 8, 2007, voting starts immediately after. We will be awarding the grants by the beginning of July. Voting usually goes fairly quickly, so we don't anticipate a problem. First, please ... read more |
I am pleased to announce that Shlomi Fish has completed his XML::RSS cleanup grant In his own words, Shlomi has summarised the work he's done and offers his thanks to those who helped him transform XML::RSS into a high quality tool for the community: This is a summary of a Perl Foundation XML::RSS grant, I've been doing. Its scope was for two or three months from 1 January, 2007 onwards, ... read more |
From Jesse Vincent and Leon Brocard: We're pleased to announce that we've selected Phil Crow as the recipient of the second Perl 6 microgrant. Phil is the hacker behind the Java::Swing module that allows Perl programmers to put a Java Swing GUI on their application without writing any Java and he'll be using this knowledge to convert Java declarations to Perl 6. You can find details of the project he's ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce two new grant awards. The first is adding new policies to Perl::Critic. The second is improving the Smolder project. Note that the second project involves the TAP::Parser module This was a project I started, currently maintained on the CPAN by Andy Armstrong This is slated to be the replacement for Test::Harness. Because we're seeing more grant applications involving this module, I have decided ... read more |
Here are the latest update from the Mango grant. As a side note, we're working on a new process for getting grant information out even faster than we currently do If everyone signs off, this information should be much more timely. Update 1 I finally got desperate enough to find a solution I could live with after rolling my own config file format. So, I managed to convert the admin/roles/users ... read more |
From Jesse Vincent Leon Brocard: We're pleased to announce that we've selected Steve Peters as the recipient of the first Perl 6 microgrant. Steve has been instrumental in helping to ensure that Perl 5 has stayed incredibly portable for the past few years. Steve's starting to turn some of his attention to Parrot. You can find details of the project he's planning in the text of his grant application: ... read more |
First off, let's get the bad news out of the way. Here's Adam's final report on the PPI refactoring editor: It is with some sadness I think I will have to finally draw a line under this effort and consider it over. Without the appearance of a pure-Perl cross-platform programmer's text editor on the CPAN, I don't see how I can complete the proof of concept. The entire grant was ... read more |
Here's the latest grant update as sent to NLNet The 0.4.8 release Parrot marked the completion of a design milestone, the IO PDD. This is a major accomplishment, as the design work on IO impacts much of Parrot's design, including areas such as concurrency and networking. This work was completed by Allison with help and review by Jerry Gay. The next area Allison will be focusing on is the object ... read more |
Desperately trying to catch up with everything needed for the grant committee and am getting around to posting grant updates for Ingy and Chris Laco. For Ingy's "Port PyYAML to Perl" grant: Ingy's not been able to make much progress over the last month due to other commitments, but is now back in the saddle. He's aiming to do the the libyaml bindings first. This will likely get us to ... read more |
If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Submission deadline is the last day of February, voting starts in March and we will be awarding the grants by the beginning of April. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read that carefully as grants are often rejected if ... read more |
We have two grant updates this time. Adam Kennedy's "Extending PPI Towards a Refactoring Perl Editor" has no new news to report. This grant is currently stalled. Shlomi Fish's work on "XML::RSS Cleanup", however, is going quite well. Read on for more information. Well, I wrote two use.perl.org journal entries about XML-RSS that detail some of my progress: http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32081 http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/32121 What's been accomplished: 1. Moving the data files from under ... read more |
Chris Laco's Mango grant application work was delayed slightly, but he's now starting on it. Below is his latest grant update, as collected by his grant manager, Adrian Howard. Well, it's that time of year. Time to pay the piper. Handel 1.0 and Handel-Storage-RDBO 0.01 are in a holding pattern waiting for releases of DBIC and RDBO, but they're done. Time to get the Mango train rolling. Done: setup ... read more |
Grant vote results are in and one grant was awarded. The first Perl Foundation grant of 2007 has been award to Shlomi Fish for resolving outstanding issues in XML::RSS Shlomi has worked with Ask Bjørn Hansen, the module's maintainer, to resolve some bugs in it in the past and now plans to tackle the rest of the work. Rosellyn Thompson is the grant manager assigned to this grant. Below is ... read more |
Here's the latest grant update as sent to NLNet During October and November, Allison has continued working on the PDD for IO, which she hopes to finish soon. Parrot 0.4.7 was released on November 14th. This release includes design work on bytecode files, embedding, concurrency, and objects. The bytecode file PDD is complete, and is beginning to be implemented. There has been significant design and implementation work on the Perl6 ... read more |
Sorry this hasn't been updated lately. Our company is shutting down their offices and I have to move to London. Needless to say, my life has been in a bit of a turmoil as I try to get things sorted out Now, on with the grant update: Christopher Laco's Mango grant is being postponed until January. We're still waiting on an update regarding Ingy dot Net's grant to port PyYAML ... read more |
This call for proposals is delayed because I managed to set up my calendar notification incorrectly. My apologies if this has inconvenienced anyone. Also, after this, I'll be on vacation for a week and a half, so I won't be able to respond right away to grant submissions, but I'll catch up with this when I get back. If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl ... read more |
Here's the latest Parrot Grant Update In August and September, Allison has been working on the PDD for IO, which she expects to finish sometime in October or November. Because IO, events, and threads are so inter-related, some of the IO work will spill over into work on the PDDs for events and threads as well. Parrot 0.4.6 was released on August 9. It includes support for several new languages, ... read more |
Here's Christopher Laco's "Mango" grant application. NAME: Christopher H Laco EMAIL: claco@chrislaco.com PROJECT: Mango AMOUNT: $1500 DURATION: 2-3 Months, starting immediately. SYNOPSIS: Mango is a Web 2.0 Ecommerce Solution built using the Handel and Catalyst frameworks. PREFACE: Since graduating college, I've spent the last 10 years working on various forms of ecommerce solutions. Most of that time has been in connecting various website checkout processes to backend business systems using ... read more |
Here's Brian Ingerson's "Port PyYAML to Perl" grant application. Name: Ingy döt Net Email: ingy@ttul.org Project Title: Port PyYAML to Perl Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis: PyYAML is a pure Python implementation of the YAML 1.1 specification It is considered the highest quality YAML implementation to date. It has an excellent API a comprehensive test suite, full unicode support, very good tagging/type support, follows the spec precisely and is written in ... read more |
The latest round of grant voting has ended and I've informed all of the applicants of the status of their grant. Two grants were approved this quarter "Porting PyYAML to Perl" and "Mango", a Web 2.0 ecommerce application built using the Handel and Catalyst frameworks. The full applications will be posted after this. The PyYAML port is to be done by Ingy and was approved because frankly, YAML support in ... read more |
My job as Parrot Grant Manager is basically to make prepare a report every two months for NLnet, who are the funders behind the big Parrot grant Here is the grant report for June and July of 2006: Since the last report, there has been a change in title for several of the Parrot contributors. Allison Randal has taken on the mantle of chief architect. This means that she will ... read more |
It's that time again! If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Grant applications must be in by the last day of July and we will be awarding the grants at the beginning of September. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read that carefully as grants are ... read more |
I was going to announce Nicholas Clark's progress on his Improve Perl 5 when I announced this quarter's grant votes. However, the summary below isn't quite accurate. It was sent to me on May 11th, and as of a May 20th email to me, I'm informed that even Nicholas' TODO items have been accomplished, along with documentation of user pragmata. His grant appears to be finished and a great ... read more |
Just a quick update about the grant applications for May, 2006. Regrettably, no applications were approved. We generally don't publish the rejected applications because we don't want to make the applicants feel awkward, but I do have the unenviable task of informing the applicants not only that their grants were not approved, but also giving them a rough summary of why the grants were not approved. For this round, it ... read more |
Here's the latest status update for Nicholas Clark's Improve Perl 5 grant. As usual, he's gotten quite a bit done. Completed "Reblessing references interacts badly with overloading" For blead I've moved the flag for "overloading" from the reference to the referent, which logically is where it should always have been. This isn't binary compatible, so isn't a viable solution for 5.8.x. For that, the flag stays in the same place, ... read more |
I have just received the first report for Nicholas Clark's grant. So far, things are going rather well. Read on to see what Nicholas has done. I've completed the planned typeglob structure shrinking. This turned out to be somewhat more complex than I expected. Specifically: Discovered that PVGVs use magic to perform stringification. Removed this need for magic, saving 24 bytes. Discovered that pads use PVGVs for storing C variable ... read more |
One of the grants the grant committee approved last year was to extend PPI towards a refactoring editor. At that time, we didn't have procedures in place to take the grant reports and post them to a common spot. Now that we have this blog, our intention is to post these reports regularly so you can see the bang you're getting for your buck. What follows is Adam Kennedy's report ... read more |
Only one grant was approved this quarter, but it's fantastic. Nicholas Clark, the current 5.8 Pumpking has applied for an $11,000 grant to improve Perl 5. Some of what he intends to do: Fix bugs affecting Unicode handling, Class::DBI, Tk and PAR. Allow relocatable Perl installations, which permits developers to distribute applications complete with a bundled Perl. Support source filters as part of code references in @INC ... read more |
From time to time people decide to leave the grant committee and new members join. Recently, Nicholas Clark, a long-time grant committee member, decided to step down. He'll be missed as his knowledge of both Perl and the community are extensive. However, we wound up electing two new grant committee members, Thomas Klausner and Ben Tilly. On the off chance you don't know who they are, I suppose I should ... read more |
Most folks probably aren't aware of this, but Stichting NLnet is sponsoring quite a bit of Parrot's development. We report to them every two months about the state of Parrot so they can feel comfortable with how it's going. Unfortunately, I had too much on my plate to be the grant manager for Parrot and Dave Rolsky volunteered to step in and help out. He now communicates the Parrot development ... read more |
As many folks know, the Perl Foundation Grant Committee is responsible for awarding and managing grants to improve the Perl language and benefit the Perl community. What many don't know is how this works. First, I'm Curtis "Ovid" Poe. You may have encountered me on Perlmonks or used some of my CPAN modules I currently sit on the Perl Foundation steering committee and I'm the grant secretary for the grant ... read more |