I'm happy to announce that Ricardo Signes has become the newest member of the Perl Foundation board. His is the first board appointment following the new, more public, selection process we recently announced. Thanks to Rik for agreeing to be the first to use this process and to the community for the comments and feedback following his nomination. We look forward to Rik's continued contributions to the Perl community, now

As has been announced previously, TPF is working on a process to allow for more public participation in adding new board members. I'm happy to present Ricardo Signes as our first new board candidate nominated with the new process. Ricardo is well known to the Perl community as a former pumpking and he offers some addition background in his bio below. Ricardo Signes spent four years studying philosophy and religion

After an amazing 17 years of serving The Perl Foundation in various roles, Kurt DeMaagd has stepped down from his board position. Kurt was one of the original founders of TPF in addition to being a founder of slashdot.org. As the original treasurer, Kurt set up all of the initial financial components of TPF, then known as Yet Another Society, and we have since distributed over $1 million in grant

As some readers may recall, I mentioned in a previous post that we were evaluating whether to maintain the Community Advocacy Committee. This announcement was enough to move Mark Prather to action. He wrote to me shortly after the blog post went up and asked what he could do to help keep this committee and its mission alive. The answer was become the new committee chair and I'm happy to

The first full day of OSCON sessions, the expo hall, and the hallway track was fun and interesting as always. The Perl Foundation has a great booth this year, right by the O'Reilly booth. We had a great day talking to Perl programmers new and veteran about what's new in the Perl community and in their Perl projects. It's also great to see that O'Reilly still shows the love for

The Perl Foundation is excited to have a booth at OSCON again this year. As part of our booth information and outreach we've put together a summary of some of the activities in the Perl world from 2016. Perl 5 The Perl 5 teams continued the steady release of new versions of Perl 5 with the release of 5.24 in 2016. This release included enhancements to regular expressions, Unicode 8.0

We've been reviewing Perl Foundation committees over the last few months and I'm happy to report some new people have stepped into committee leadership roles. David Oswald is the new conferences committee chair. This position had gone vacant for a period as TPF Treasurer Dan Wright along with others took a more active role in planning for The Perl Conference. The board is happy to once again have someone in

The Perl Foundation is excited to announce that Makoto Nozaki, grants chair, has joined TPF board as secretary. He has served as grants chair since 2014 and has done a great job overseeing grants and providing funding for perl projects. In addition to supporting Makoto's TPF work, Two Sigma Investments, LP, Makoto's employer, has also provided donations to TPF for which we are very grateful. A focus for us this

brian d foy has announced the White Camel Awards for 2016 and we'd like to congratulate the winners. I'd like to add a special congratulations to Karen Pauley for all her work with Perl, both officially as TPF president and unofficially as a community member. Thanks to all of the winners for your constant efforts toward keeping the Perl community a vibrant and fun place to be.

The team that supports meta::cpan had a busy weekend as they completed their long project to upgrade all of the metacpan infrastructure. Thanks to the team for all of their work and to the sponsors who made meta::hack possible. The site looks and performs great!