Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. This month was mainly spent on overload and symbol table bugs. Over the first 17 weeks I have now averaged about 17 hours per week, slightly less than the nominal 20. I have used up approx 55% of the hours allocated to the grant. Report for period 2010/06/01 to 2010/06/30 inclusive Summary Effort bq.

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Patrick Michaud. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Name: Patrick Michaud Project Title: Lists, Iterators, and Parcels Synopsis 7, 8, and other general Rakudo improvements Project Overview: This project will

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2010. 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.

Leon sent me some updates on his grant: bq. _I've been less productive than previous period this time, mainly due to school obligations. I've improved the Build system and the file layout. I've added some tests for regular expressions, which uncovered a number of bugs that seem to be fixed by now. Unless I uncover more bugs the regexps are finished. I've also done some testing on windows, with limited

Michael Schwern is working on Test::Builder 2 for about two years. But we found him on YAPC and asked for a report on the project status. He answered to our request and wrote "this report":http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/40421.

A few weeks ago, Eric sent me this update for his Grant: bq. I apologize that I have not been in contact recently regarding the TPF grant for documenting WxPerl. I would like you and the Foundation to know that I am once again working on the project after my unfortunate hiatus. bq. I have posted some of the documentation to the WxPerl wiki at http://wxperl.pvoice.org, specifically the following: bq.

The "Perl 5 Wiki":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5 has been upgraded from Socialtext v2.14 to Socialtext v4.2 "Socialtext Inc":http://socialtext.com has graciously provided free hosting of the "Perl 5 Wiki":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5 on their hosted wiki service. Many thanks to Socialtext's Staff, "Ingy döt Net":http://ingy.net/, "Jesse Vincent":http://www.fsck.com/, and "Karen Pauley":http://martian.org/karen/ for technical help and direction. Wiki "data is freely available":http://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?perl_5_wiki#open_data through an API for the community to use as it pleases. "List of Socialtext release notes.":http://www.socialtext.net/help-en/?action=search&scope=&searchterm=%22release+notes+for%22

We have received the following Hague Grant application from Gabor Szabo. Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation. Please leave feedback in the comments or if you prefer send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org. Grant title: Perl Ecosystem development group Name: Gabor Szabo Amount requested: $25,000 Synopsis: One of the objectives of the Ian Hague donation of

I am pleased to announce that we have made a donation to the "Enlightened Perl Organisation's":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ "Send-a-Newbie":http://www.send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org/index.html program. This community initiative was started last year by Edmund von der Burg and this year is being run by the "Enlightened Perl Organisation":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/index.html. Its aim is to provide financial assistance to community members who would love to attend "YAPC::Europe":http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ye2010/ and have never attended any large Perl conference before. Donations to the program

Curtis Jewell finished his work on the Corporate, Embedded and Muti-user Strawberry Perl. You can read a detailed report on his blog

Just a reminder about the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call For Venue... Entries can be submitted now through June 1st 2010 to the TPF conferences group: tpf-conferences perl org. We hope to announce the winners at "this year's YAPC::NA in Columbus, Ohio":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/. Are you ready to get started? First off, you will want to "review the bidding details at yapc.org":http://yapc.org/yapcna.html. While there, you'll also find links to the

Kieren has posted his Week 2 Report on the Perl Survey, and is very happy with the responses so far: 2500 responses in under a week. With just another week to run, he's hoping to get responses from users outside the core community, so please pass along a link to the Perl Survey to the Perl users you know.

Kieren Diment's Perl Survey Grant work has led to the first new Perl Survey since the original 2007 survey. You can take the survey, and we encourage you to do so. Kieren hopes to deliver early analysis of the gathered data in early June at the German Perl Workshop. You can read Kieren's announcement in his own words on his blog.

Ricardo Signes reports that all work on his 2010 Q1 grant to improve the Dist::Zilla distribution builder is complete, with all work complete, tested, and released for some time into the CPAN. His complete and detailed final report can be read online.

Although grant managers should report regularly on grantees progress, given some extra work on TPF Grants Committee regarding the new operation rules, I would like to make a small report on which grants are TPF currently funding and what is their status. This list starts from oldest to newest: Test::Builder 2 by Michael Schwern Schwern does not give feedback for a long time. Please push him personally. Thanks. The Perl

As well as the approval of the new Grant Committee rules and our attempt to close long running grants, we are also refreshing the Grant Managers. Two of the current grant managers, Adrian Horward and Jeff Adams are stepping down. I would like to thank both of them for their fantastic work, and give special thanks to Adrian who offered to help new grantees during their first weeks of work.

In an earlier "blog post":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/updating-the-grant-process.html I stated that the Grants Committee has been working to improve the grants process. This work, along with the feedback we received from the community, has lead to two major changes to our rules of operation. Historically we paid 50% of the grant up-front which led to situations where we paid grantees for little or no results. In future grants will be paid upon completion.

Dave Mitchell writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the April period. I continued working my way through the list of tie bugs, then towards the end of the month, got sucked into spending quite a bit of time on a regexp bug. I also spent a bit of time revisiting some earlier fixes of mine where issues showed up once we got 5.12 released and

Unfortunately Sebastian Riedel had some health problems during this year and that affected, as expected, everything on his life. Nevertheless, he intends to finish his work with TPF and expects to get results during next June. So, expect news soon.

Curtis sent us some new updates on his grant. Details follow: There were two issues still not complete on my last report: 1. Can be installed to any drive This has finally been completed, and the 5.12.0 versions of Strawberry Perl April 2010 Beta 2 will have this code. The actual restriction on usable directories is that the path installed into cannot have spaces