It is with great pleasure that The Perl Foundation and Mozilla Foundation announce a major new Perl 6 Development Grant. The recipient of the grant is Patrick Michaud the Perl 6 compiler pumpking and lead programmer of a Perl 6 implementation based on Parrot and on his own work on the Perl 6 compiler and grammar. The grant will provide Patrick with four months of support for this work beginning ... read more |
The Parrot team has continued to make monthly releases, releasing 0.4.16 in September and 0.4.17 in October. These releases include more work on the NQP language as well as many updates and cleanups for the design documents As usual, there were also plenty of bug fixes, and in particular much of the code was reviewed as part of the effort to complete the PMC design. I'm very happy to report ... read more |
If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it’s worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Submission deadline is the last day of November, voting starts in December and we will be awarding the grants by the beginning of January. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read ... read more |
There's a little more than 24 hours left in the "Frozen Perl 2008 Call for Speakers":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2008/cfs.html. If you've been putting your submission off to the last minute, that last minute is fast approaching. Submissions close at midnight on Tuesday, October 23. If you're on the fence about submitting a proposal, we really hope you do submit something. More proposals gives us more choice, and we really want to encourage new, ... read more |
The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Alberto Simões to the position of Grants Committee Chair. Alberto was elected by the Grants Committee members from a pool of four strong candidates. Alberto is president of the Portuguese Association for Perl Programmers the leader of Braga.pm and the co-chair of YAPC::EU 2005 in Braga, Portugal. Alberto is a Ph.D. student in Machine Translation at the University of Minho ... read more |