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  • Hague Grant Application: Rakudo Signature Improvements Sat, 05-Sep-2009 by Jim Brandt

    Below is the latest Hague grant request, submitted by Jonathan Worthington. Please feel free to comment below. h2. Project Title Rakudo Signature Improvements h2. Synopsis This grant aims to increase correctness, completeness, stability and performance of Rakudo's implementation of signatures and signature binding. h2. Benefits to Perl 6 Development Rakudo has continued to make impressive progress in recent months, and recently the Rakudo team, of which I am a part,

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Results Tue, 01-Sep-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Dear all, sorry for the delay. August was a complicated month. It is the Conference month and the Vacation month. But I think it was worth waiting for. This quarter TPF will fund three grants: "Corporate, Embedded, and Multi-user Perl on Windows":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/2009q3_grant_proposal_corporat.html by Curtis Jewell. This grant will be co-funded by TPF and Adam Kennedy. "wxPerl documentation":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/08/wxperl_documentation.html by Eric J. Roode. "Changing the Perl 5 optree build process into a

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XV) Sat, 22-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    This is the last post presenting a report for all grants at once. Future reports will be posted by respective grant managers whenever they have relevant news. TPF expects grantees to report at least once each month. If you are a grantee, please, easy the task of your grant manager sharing news with him. If you are a grant manager and your grantee does not report for a long time,

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposals Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    After three extenuating days at YAPC::EU::2009, and after some rest time, finally had the time to prepare the list of grant proposals for the third quarter of 2009. We have seven proposals, that can be read in this blog: perl core memory improvements by Jim Cromie wxPerl Documentation by Eric J. Roode Improve the visual design of Perl websites by Jon Allen Corporate, Embedded, and Multi-user Perl on Windows by

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: perl core memory improvements Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Jim Cromie Email: Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $3000K Synopsis Memory allocation enhancements in core Perl is greedy wrt recycling sv-bodies; freed bodies are returned to an interpreter-global freelist, where they hang until process termination. Workloads which rotate through large populations of each body-type would be badly limited; there would be no memory left. While this workload profile is arbitrary, so is the limitation. More to

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: wxPerl Documentation Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Eric J. Roode, ROODE on CPAN. Email: or Amount Requested: $2500 for Q3 2009. Synopsis Write a lot of much-needed documentation for wxPerl. Benefits to the Perl Community Perl has a reputation as a language that is not suited for GUI development. This is silly; Perl is as suited for GUI as any other language. But the learning curve for most of Perl's GUI toolkits is steep,

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: Improve the visual design of Perl websites Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Jon Allen Email: Amount Requested: USD 3,000 Synopsis Produce a modern, visually appealing set of templates, stylesheets, and other assets that Perl website owners can easily use and adapt to achieve a stylish look and feel, regardless of the back-end technologies powering each individual site. Benefits to the Perl Community Presentation and visual design forms a strong and lasting impression on website visitors. Unfortunately, the 1990s style of many

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: Corporate, Embedded, and Multi-user Perl on Windows Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Curtis Jewell Email: Amount Requested: US $5000. Synopsis Enhance Strawberry Perl so that it can be customized for different environments, and silently embedded inside of other corporate and open source projects. Benefits to the Perl Community With the upgrade to a .msi installer for Strawberry Perl, it is now possible to solve many outstanding issues and expand Windows Perl in new directions. These include greater compatibility with corporate environments,

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: Changing the Perl 5 optree build process into a Abstract Syntax Tree generation and a code generation step Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Gerard Goossen Email: Amount Requested 5,000 Synopsis This project is to change the Perl 5 optree build process into a step where the parser generates an Abstract Syntax Tree and a step where the executable code in the form of a list of function pointers is generated from the AST. Because this project is refactoring of a major part of the Perl 5 core, a good benchmark of

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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: Enhancing CPANHQ Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Shlomi Fish Email: Amount Requested: $1500 Synopsis CPANHQ a community-driven, meta-data-enhanced interface to CPAN. Benefits to the Perl Community The current CPAN interfaces http://search.cpan.org/ kobesearch, and the rest of the CPAN services that various individuals have set up are not integrated, are not based on enough meta-data, are not enough community-driven and are generally lacking. As a result of all this, some people started the "Rethinking CPAN" effort: http://www.google.com/search

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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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