Proposer: Herbert Breunung aka Project Title: Perl 6 Tables Synopsis: Translating my Perl 6 tutorial called the Perl tables. it is currently half ready in german but building up. Name: Herbert Breunung aka Project Title: Perl Tables Synopsis: Translating my Perl 6 tutorial called the Perl tables. It is currently half ready in german but building up. Benefits to the Perl Community: People will easier learn Perl 6,

Name: David Moreno Title: Solidifying and Extending the Blog Normalize project Synopsis: Consolidating the base core and concepts of the Blog Normalize project, as well as building ten new two-way modules for it. Name: David Moreno Title: Solidifying and Extending the Blog Normalize project Synopsis: Consolidating the base core and concepts of the Blog Normalize project, as well as building ten new two-way modules for it. Benefits to the Perl

 Name: Sven Dowideit Title: First class Perl support in an activly maintained cross platform IDE Synopsis: Add Perl Project, Perl Syntax highlighting, Perl Debugging and Perl Refactoring support to NetBeans Name: Sven Dowideit Project Title: First class Perl support in an activly maintained cross platform IDE Synopsis: Add Perl Project, Perl Syntax highlighting, Perl Debugging and Perl Refactoring support to NetBeans Benefits to the Perl Community:

Name: Adam Kennedy Title: Perl on a Stick Synopsis: The initial goal is to create a module in the Portable:: namespace to handle the internals of implementing portability support add functionality to automatically modify a Strawberry Perl .zip distribution to make it run on a portable device, build support for generating a Portable distribution directly in Perl::Dist, and to make the methodology compatible with existing portable application groups, such as

Name: Daniel Ruoso Title: SMOP Simple Meta Object Programming Synopsis: SMOP is an alternative C implementation of a runtime to run Perl 6. It is built with a pragmatic approach, while still focusing in implementing all the features Perl 6 needs. SMOP resembles perl 5 structure, and implement the concepts of "Responder Interface" and "Polymorphic Eval" that should enable a considerable set of extensibility. More information can be found at:

The "YAPC::NA schedule":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/schedule is up and the early bird pricing of $85

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 2008. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references>. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or

The Perl Foundation is supporting the "Oslo QA Hackathon":http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Oslo_QA_Hackathon_2008 which is taking place this weekend. For past events, like "Chicago":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/11/chicago_perl_hackathon_a_rousi.html and "The Netherlands":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/03/european_perl_hackathon_result.html, we provided cash to cover costs. For Oslo, the organizers were set with the venue, but really wanted to bring in people from around the world. So we agreed to support the hackathon with some directed travel grants to David Golden and brian foy. brian is blogging

If you're a frequent visitor, you may have noticed that the blog lost some of the right-hand links and resources for a while. A recent Movable Type upgrade scrambled things for a bit, but I think I've got it sorted out now. My complete lack of familiarity with MT made this much more difficult than it probably should have been, but I now know much more about MT than I

Welcome, once again, to the Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call For Venue! The 2009 YAPC::NA marks the 10th anniversary for YAPC. Wow, 10 years of YAPC! This year we've decided to try something a little different. After some discussion and feedback, we've decided to take an approach similar to YAPC::EU. We're putting out the request for bids now, with a June 1 deadline. This gives the Conferences Committee

During the period for Call of Grant Proposals were proposed three projects of which none was approved. Q2 period for Call of grant Proposals will open on 1st April with some news regarding voting process. Stay tunned.

During the last month the Grants Committee changed its composition. Two members stepped out as their professional affairs did not leave time to do a good job at this committee. To them, Hugo van der Sanden and Stas Bekman our sincere thanks for all their dedication during the last years. Two new members stepped in. They are Will "Coke" Coleda and Perrin Harkins For them our welcomes, and good work

I'm happy to announce we've successfully concluded our recent call for new people to fill several vacant positions in TPF. Our newest members are: Karen Pauley, Steering Committee Chair Josh McAdams, Public Relations Jeremy Fluhmann, Conferences Committee Chair We're very excited to have some new people bring their energy and ideas to the table. I'd also like to thank Andy Lester, our outgoing PR person, for all of his PR

Yesterday, TPF received word from Google that our submission to be a participating organization in the 2008 Google Summer of Code project was accepted. Our thanks to everyone involved in the application process, but especially to Eric Wilhelm who organized and drove the effort. We will provide more details here soon.

As reported on the "YAPC::NA site":http://yapc.org/America, the call for participation has been extended. The original closing date was March 15, but some people asked for an extension and seemed only fair to share the extension with everyone. The new deadline is March 31, 2008.