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,

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

Dear all, thanks for the grant managers who sent me updates, but I had some problems with my laptop and things were not easy. Hope to get back on track in 15 days.

Grants updates, in fact, updates IX, X and XI, as we had a small stop. h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: I'm a bit behind on finishing YAML::Perl. This is due mostly to a focus on TestML. So far I have the spec: http://ingydotnet.github.com/testml/spec/ and a Perl 5 implementation: http://github.com/ingydotnet/testml-pm/ These are undergoing last minute changes. _The reason I'm doing this and telling you about it,

After grant proposals comment by the community and vote taking place in the Grant Committee, these are the results. Rejected proposals: "Project nival ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project.html "Project ruddy ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project_1.html "Perl 6 Pages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_perl_6_p.html Funded proposal: "Pod Mangling Utility Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_pod_mang.html

It is with great pleasure to announce the approval of the latest "Ian Hague grant for Perl 6 development":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants, entitled "'Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo.'":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_request_tra.html This grant goes to "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/, who has already "successfully finished":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_for_jonatha.html one Hague grant. The grant manager for this grant will be "Patrick Michaud":http://www.pmichaud.com/, the lead architect of "Rakudo Perl 6":http://www.rakudo.org/, the "Perl 6":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi implementation effort on top of the "Parrot virtual

The TPF board of directors wants to provide a progress update on discussion regarding providing support to Richard Dice to work on TPF and Perl community issues. The original public announcement and request-for-comment is "found here.":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/request_for_comment_tpf_to_eng.html The new version of this proposal is available here It has been revised considerably based on community comment and discussion within TPF. Highlights of the changes between the original version and the current one

It's that time again! Welcome to another Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call for Venue. Do you want to bring hundreds of Perl geeks to your city? If so, then please consider submitting your bid for YAPC::NA 2010. Similar to last year, the deadline for submissions is June 10 and the winning bid will be announced at "this year's conference in Pittsburgh":http://yapc10.org/. How do you get started? Please review

The Perl Foundation will have a booth at OSCON again this year. The booth always serves as a great meeting place for those of us in the Perl community, but beyond that, it tends to be a little confused as to its purpose. We know that we want to show other OSCON attendees that the Perl community is an active community that is on the cutting edge of technology. We

That time of the month is back. This quarter we had two new grant proposals, and two grant proposals that were maintained from last round. We expect the community to comment on these grants accordingly with their relevance. Please comment on each grant proposal post: "Perl 6 Pages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_perl_6_p.html "Pod Mangling Utility Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_pod_mang.html "Project nival ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project.html "Project ruddy ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project_1.html

Project ruddy Name: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls. Amount Requested: Front end 1000 Back end 1000 Total 2000 Synopsis The name ruddy comes from a kind of dove. Ruddy is intended to be version 0 of a nntp/rss reader an a web based email system. Benefits to the Perl Community It will be an extensible web mail system written with perl and jquery,

Project nival Name: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls. Amount Requested: Front end 1000 Back end 1000 Total 2000 Synopsis The name nival comes from a kind of owl. Nival is intended to be version 0 of a Content Management System Benefits to the Perl Community It will be an extensible CMS written with perl and jquery, allowing to build sites in an

Pod Mangling Utility Improvements Name: Ricardo Signes Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis This grant is for the completion of design and implementation of basic versions of three pieces of software currently under development: Pod::Elemental Pod::Weaver Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver All three modules exist and have been in use by a number of people for some time. The main thrust of the grant is to improve the usability and reliability of Pod::Weaver. Pod::Weaver is

Project Title: Perl 6 Pages Name: Herbert Breunung Email: Amount Requested: 600$ € Synopsis comprehensive lexicon-like tutorial Benefits to the Perl Community It will become easy to learn Perl6, because this way people can easily grab the bits they want to learn now about Perl 6. Once ready it may become also a communication channel with people not so involved into perl 6 Deliverables 8-10 larger Pages in the TPF

Coming off the completion of his first Hague grant, Jonathan Worthington has submitted a request for a new Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant for his proposal "Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo". A part of the Hague grant process is that submitted grant requests may, as opted by the submitter, be provided for public and community comment. Jonathan's grant request is included here, below. Any interested Perl

In late November 2007 Jonathan Worthington submitted a "Hague Perl 6 Grant proposal":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants entitled "'Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements'":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html. I am pleased to announce that Jonathan submitted his final Hague grant report yesterday and it was approved and accepted by chromatic, the grant manager for the grant. This successfully completes this Hague Grant for Perl 6 development. We thank Jonathan for his great work on this grant and his efforts

Back a few months ago I was interviewed by Renée Bäcker, the publisher of "$foo, the German language Perl magazine":http://perl-magazin.de/. The issue with that interview is just about to be released. You can read the "English version of the interview":http://downloads.foo-magazin.de/InterviewRichardDice2.pdf online. Understandably the interview talks about TPF's perspective on Perl through 2008 and other news and happenings in Perl and TPF.

Earlier this past week I submitted a proposal to the TPF Board of Directors; the PDF of this proposal is attached here. The plan includes a long list of projects, most of which have been discussed within TPF for a while but have been on indefinite hold due mainly to lack of available effort to address them properly. Some are for TPF process improvement and others are in more direct

Dave Rolsky finished writing the Moose Documentation. This grant started a few months ago, and Dave delivered it quickly. You can read Dave wrap-up on "his blog":http://blog.urth.org/2009/04/moose-docs-grant-wrap-up.html #grants

Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: I just finished giving my YAML talk today at the NPW in Oslo. It was well received. Later the slides will be up at http://ingydotnet.github.com/yaml-npw2009-talk/ This weekend is a hackathon. One of my big plans is to get PyYaml ported to Perl6 in Rakudo enough to parse Larry's syntax trees. YAML::Perl is all ported but just needs to:

The "Nordic Perl Workshop":http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2009/ will be taking place this week on Thursday and Friday in Oslo, Norway. The theme for this year's conference is "Your Future with Perl". The focus will be on Perl 6, Rakudo, Parrot, and modern ways of using Perl 5. A three day Perl 6 and Enlightened Perl "Hackathon":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?oslo_perl_6_hackaton_2009 will follow the workshop. If you are interested in finding out more about this, take a look

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 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.

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 No updates this time. h3. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith Grant closed due to grantee lack of feedback. h3. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern Michael update: _At the Birmingham QA Hackathon, between answering random questions and having random TAP discussions, my focus was on working on

There is still time to apply to take part in this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. Don't forget student applications must be "submitted":http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009 by April 3rd, 12 Noon, PDT.

Grants updates: "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: YAML-Perl is progressing nicely. I just uploaded 0.02 to CPAN and github. http://tinyurl.com/co6h6h details the current status and basic todo list. Basically the porting is winding down and all the basic stuff is working properly. The Parser is completely ported. In fact, all the classes are completely ported except: Emitter 3 more methods; Resolver 5 more methods I could

We are delighted to announce that TPF has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. We would like to thank everyone involved, especially "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/ for all his hard work in coordinating this project. If you are a student, and would like more information on taking part, please read Jonathan's article on "applying for GSoC with The Perl Foundation":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/applying-to-google-summer-of-c.html.

The dates and pricing for the "tenth annual YAPC::NA":http://yapc10.org/yn2009 have been announced. This year's conference will be held at at "Carnegie Mellon University":http://www.cmu.edu/ in Pittsburgh, PA on from June 22nd through June 24th. Registration is open with early bird pricing happening now. Also, "the call for papers":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/cfp.html is open through Friday, 24 April 2009. The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference with its roots in the

Gabor grant on integrating Padre and Parrot was cancelled. Gabor explains why in his blog Note that this does not mean that this integration will not be done, or that TPF will not fund it. It just means that at this point Gabor does not have the time to deliver the grant on time.

Grants updates: "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: YAML::Perl is really coming together. Over 95% of the code is ported. I only port code once I have a failing test written to exercise that code. Just need to figure out how to tickle the other 5%. I plan on putting a big push in this weekend to get a release candidate version of YAML::Perl onto CPAN. The

I used to think that there was a conference season and that it took place in the summer. Now in the Perl world we have so many grass-root events taking place that the whole year is our conference season. So far this year we have already had "Perl Oasis":http://perloasis.org/opw2009/ in Orlando, "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2009/ in Minneapolis, the "Bulgarian Perl Workshop":http://event.perlbulgaria.org/sofia2009/, the "German Perl Workshop":http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009/index.html, and the "Belgian Perl Workshop":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/. Today the

These are the results for the first round of 2009 grants requests: Rejected Proposals: CPAN::Forum development Codewalker Interactive Perl Interpreter Awareness and Utilization of Perl in Nigeria: A Survey OPener Chat OPener Package Inline C++/CLI Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Funded proposals: Improving learn.perl.org, by Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Web.pm a lightweight web framework for Perl 6, by Ilya Belikin, Carl Mäsak and Stephen Weeks Still

Follows the fourth grants updates report. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan has finished adding support for archives with unicode filenames on Windows, and is now tackling the Perl side, making it possible to create archives with unicode filenames in them. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith No updates. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern No updates. "Perl cross-compilation

Project: Simple Meta Object Programming Grantee: Daniel Ruoso Grant Manager Jeff Horwitz Started: August, 2008 Finished: February, 2009 Follows the conclusion report, by Daniel Ruoso. Ok, I'll try to summarize what happened in the last 7 months We're actually in a point where it's not worth writing any other types in C. The amount of abstractions already demands us to write the built-in types in Perl 6, and there is

Follows the third grants updates report. This time at Saturday, as yesterday was Grants Proposals day. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy moved recently for Europe. He expects to deliver news really soon. "SMOP":http://www.perlfoundation.org/smop_simple_meta_object_programming Daniel Ruoso No update. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan added Unicode support under Windows to extractTree and addTree. Now, he is trying to get other methods to support

Is that time again. The deadline for grant proposals submissions ended six days ago, and now they are available for comment during a week. Please use each proposal post to comment about that project. Please do not post with simple messages as "I like it", or "+1". If you like it, state why you do. That is what will help us voting, not just another person name associated to the

Name: Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Revamp the learn.perl.org website to be more inviting to new users of Perl by creating a new series of articles which form a coherent and fun tutorial arc. Benefits to the Perl Community The learn.perl.org site should be a welcoming, fun, and educational experience for new users, complete with exciting projects and straightforward instructions to make it easier to