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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XIV) Sat, 01-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • YAPC::EU 2009 Starts Next Week! Fri, 31-Jul-2009 by Josh McAdams

    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

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  • CPAN Ticker Wed, 22-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    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?

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  • Proposed Payments for Clearing Perl 5 Bugs Sun, 19-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XIII) Sat, 18-Jul-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • TPF Board Changes Mon, 13-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XII) Sat, 04-Jul-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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

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  • 2009Q3 Call for Grants Proposals Sat, 04-Jul-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • YAPC::NA 2010 in Columbus Wed, 24-Jun-2009 by Josh McAdams

    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!

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