Author: John Beppu 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. Author John Beppu Title

Author: Michael G Schwern Title: CPAN Stability Project Synopsis: The CPAN Stability Project is intended to improve the usability of CPAN over long term use by providing a way to choose between safe releases vs newest releases as well as to better guarantee that upgrading will not break anything. It draws heavily on Debian's release management and tiers Name Michael G Schwern Title CPAN Stability Project Synopsis The CPAN Stability

Author: Michael G Schwern Title: Module Authoring Documentation Synopsis: Write documentation targeted specifically at Perl module authors using both Module::Build and MakeMaker. This includes basic authoring tutorials, information about XS and a cookbook for advanced issues. Specifically separate the documentation to address the different concerns. Also complete the author API documentation of both Module::Build and MakeMaker. Separate basic and advanced API information for easier reading. Author Michael G Schwern Title

Author: Vadim Konovalov 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 unpacked

Author: Cristina Nunes 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 meetings.

Author: Leon Timmermans Title: Libperl++ Synopsis: Currently embedding perl is too complicated. The API requires too much knowledge of internals to use and is too incompatible with other libraries Therefore I've started a project to ease the embedding of Perl. Though the code works, it is not ready for public consumption yet. In this proposal I want to make it ready for widespread adoption. Author Leon Timmermans Title Libperl++ Synopsis

Authors: John Beppu and Pip Stuart Title: Bavl Synopsis: Bavl is a Free web application for collaboratively learning how to comprehend speak foreign languages. At its core, it is a system for searching through a database of words, phrases, or lessons each accompanied by translations. However, instead of just presenting mere text back, each phrase also can have one or more audio recordings associated with it. This will let people

For ten years the Perl community has made it a point to recognize the many significant contributions made by the unsung heros of Perl. These volunteers often work behind the scenes, serving the community and contributing to the ongoing success of Perl. The White Camel award is intended to honor those who make noteworthy and ongoing non-technical contributions in benefit of the Perl community. This year we have three White

I wanted to post a quick thanks to the folks helping out with the TPF booth this year. So thanks to ben hengst Jeff Lavallee, Uri, Josh, and all the other folks who took some time to make sure people got answers to their Perl questions. Jeff is a local and actually got permission from his manager to come down for just the day and man the booth.

As "reported recently":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/07/perl_on_a_stick_grant_update.html, Adam has made progress with his Perl on a Stick project. In fact, he's made enough progress that we're able to offer 1G USB drives loaded with "Strawberry Perl":http://strawberryperl.com/ here at OSCON for $15. We have them at the TPF Booth, so stop by and get one.