This is a reminder that the YAPC::NA 2009 "Call for Venue":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/03/yapcna_2009_call_for_venue.html will be closing in less than a month. If you plan on trying to host YAPC::NA 2009 and you haven't started on your bid, you'd better get to it! The deadline for submissions this year is June 1st

In July 2007, TPF granted Shlomi Fish for a Perl-Based Mediawiki Syntax Parser. Both parties have agreed to terminate this grant agreement. This will free up Shlomi to work on other projects, and allow the Perl Foundation to use the money to fund future grants.

To this post follows a set of posts with proposals received by the Perl Foundation grants committee during the second call for grant proposals for 2008. Although not usual, the rules of the TPF GC are changing and we hope to make this a rule. Proposals are accepted during one month and after that period, they are posted for public discussion on the Internet. This is important to make GC

Name: Alan Haggai Alavi Title: Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module Synopsis: Perl programs often need to manipulate .zip files. Archive::Zip is a Perl module that allows a Perl program to manage Zip archive files without calling an external utility. The Archive::Zip module, however, has some bugs which prevent it from generating fully-portable .zip files, that are handled correctly by all .zip file readers and manipulators. The project's main

Name: Paul Cain Title: CatalystX::Installer A generic GUI deployment for catalyst applications Synopsis: Create a web application that provides a cross-platform generic GUI for setting up Catalyst applications. There is no command line version of this program since anyone who wants to use the command line can just edit the configuration files directly. Name: Paul Cain Title: CatalystX::Installer A generic GUI deployment for catalyst applications Synopsis: Create a web application

Name: Kieren Diment Project Title: The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis: In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised and administered the Perl survey to provide a snapshot of the Perl community. In particular she made significant effort to recruit as many people as possible, resulting in a sample size of around 4500 responses. While an excellent start for a design for a survey instrument, it can be improved in a

Name: Eric Wilhelm Title: svn.cpan.org revision control for all of CPAN Synopsis: This project will create a universally addressable Subversion space for the Perl community. It will be populated with historical and ongoing CPAN releases. Every CPAN author will be given a public version control repository, and may use a portion of it for any purpose. Alternate views, such as mappings for each distribution, will be handled via the http

Author: Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson Title: Improve POE::Component::IRC Synopsis: I will improve POE::Component::IRC by overhauling its test suite, adding more features, fixing bugs and writing more documentation. AUTHOR: Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson NAME: Improve POE::Component::IRC SYNOPSIS: I will improve POE::Component::IRC by overhauling its test suite, adding more features, fixing bugs and writing more documentation. BENEFITS: PoCo::IRC is the most modern IRC client module for Perl out there. It is used for many

Name: Grant Grueninger Project Title: DBEditor Synopsis: DBEditor implements a CGI-based database editor. It allows you to very quickly implement a basic table editor by simply stating table data in configuration files Name: Grant Grueninger Project Title: DBEditor Synopsis: DBEditor implements a CGI-based database editor. It allows you to very quickly implement a basic table editor by simply stating table data in configuration files Set up your database config info:

Name: Colin Smith Title: Extending BSDPAN Synopsis: Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Name: Colin Smith Title: Extending BSDPAN Synopsis: Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Benefits to the Perl Community: The wealth of freely available code CPAN represents is one of the Perl language's greatest strengths. Tighter

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Make localtime and gmtime Work Past 2038 Synopsis: Prevent the Y2038 bug from effecting Perl users. This means make localtime and gmtime work for times beyond 2038. Do this regardless of the state of the system C libraries. A working solution, in C, already exists. This grant is to finish the portability issues, write additional tests and change perl to use the repaired C

Name: Michael G Schwern Project 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 Project Title: CPAN Stability Project Synopsis: The

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Test::Builder2 Synopsis: Write a new, incompatible version of Test::Builder to improve the architecture and support desired features which Test::Builder does not or cannot. Make sure that both Test::Builder and Test::Builder2 based testing modules can work together. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Test::Builder2 Synopsis: Write a new, incompatible version of Test::Builder to improve the architecture and support desired features which Test::Builder does not or

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Automatic INSTALL.txt generation Synopsis: Write a module which can automatically generate Perl module installation instructions. Integrate into Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Automatic INSTALL.txt generation Synopsis: Write a module which can automatically generate Perl module installation instructions. Integrate into Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Benefits to the Perl Community Most Perl modules come without module installation instructions. At most they might include

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Module Authoring Documentation Synopsis: Write a "wizard" to guide users through finding the correct arguments for MakeMaker and Module::Build by asking them how they want modules installed. Provide as a stand alone app, integrate into the CPAN shell and as part of the MakeMaker and Module::Build installation. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Module Installation Configuration Wizard Synopsis Write a "wizard" to guide users