It took a long time, but for this round we had a big number of excellent proposals. Unfortunately TPF is unable to fund all the proposed grants as they exceed the funds available for Grants. Thus, TPF GC ranked proposals accordingly with its relevance to the community, and the first few were funded. These are the funded proposals: "Perl on a Stick":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_perl_on.html, by Adam Kennedy "Test::Builder 2":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_testbuil.html, by Michael Schwern

On May 14, 2008, The Perl Foundation received a philanthropic donation of US$200,000 from Ian Hague. Mr. Hague is a co-founder of Firebird Management LLC a financial fund management company based in New York City. This donation was the result of extensive discussions between Mr. Hague, The Perl Foundation and a Perl community member who wishes to remain anonymous. The purpose of the donation is to support the development of

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