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

I am pleased to announce that "The Perl Foundation":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ and "Parrot Foundation":http://parrot.org/foundation have had 10 projects accepted for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://socghop.appspot.com/. Student: Justin Hunter Project Title: "Rework Catalyst framework's instance initialisation code to provide more flexible and extensible inversion of control":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763632 Mentor: Florian Ragwitz Student: Tyler Curtis Project Title: "A PAST Optimization Framework for Parrot":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763715 Mentor: chromatic Student: Nat Tuck Project Title: "Hybrid Threads for Parrot":http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/tpf/t127230763672 Mentor:

TPF is helping to sponsor a Perl Booth at "LinuxTag":http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/, Berlin, which takes place from the 9th 12th June. "Gabor":http://szabgab.com/blog/2010/04/1271829580.html and the events team are looking for more volunteers. If you are available to help out please add your details to the "event co-ordination":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events_2010_linuxtag_berlin page on the Perl Foundation wiki. #events

The promised new Dist::Zilla tutorial has been posted on the new Dist::Zilla home page. Rik has been engaged to speak about YAPC and OSCON about Dist::Zilla, and this talk, complete with voiceover, will be released publicly after the events. The only remaining task for the Dist::Zilla grant is the overhaul of the new subcommand to dzil.

Philippe Bruhat wrote: "While YAPC::Europe 2010 preparations are well underway in Pisa, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation to look for suitable sites for the 2011 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2011 should send a brief statement of intent to venue at yapceurope.org. This should be followed by a complete application. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2010. For details on how to prepare your

Heath Bair writes: "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ is almost here! June 21st 23rd 2010 is quickly approaching and "Columbus.pm":http://columbus.pm.org/ is getting very excited. Hotel reservation information is available, dorm reservation details are up and ready, and the conference is quickly approaching. For everyone still looking for "YAPC::NA 2010":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/ details here is what we have planned. The "conference":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2010/wiki?node=ConferenceSummary will be held in the brand new beautiful The Ohio State Union. The main "dorm