The Grants Committee recently brought on Jason Crome as our new Secretary, and he's already organizing and getting things done! During the process to search for a new Secretary, we also found a motivated individual who wasn't already on the committee, and the team is interested in bringing them on as a new voting member. But, during our membership drive in the past year, we filled all the open slots

I am very happy to announce that the Grants Committee has voted on the selection of a new Secretary, and Jason Crome will be taking over from me effective immediately. Jason joined the GC last summer, and has been not only an active member, but he definitely has an interest in doing more to help the Perl and Raku communities. While the TPF Board must approve the GC's vote, I

Update on RakuAST The board has voted to approve the funding on this request and work will commence.

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March/April 2020 round. There was one proposal this round, which was approved. As the Grants Committee is operating without a budget at this time, we have sent the request to be funded to the Board. As soon as we have a decision from the Board, we will post a new blog entry and update this one. RakuAST **Voting results: Approved: 8

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April 2020 round. RakuAST Before the Committee members vote on any proposal, we like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by April 24th, 2020. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced shortly thereafter.

Project title RakuAST Project synopsis I recently presented a proposal for RakuAST an abstract syntax tree for the Raku language that will become part of the language specification. I have also released my work on it so far, which is in a branch in the Rakudo repository. So far, I've worked on it during spare moments. The purpose of this grant is to accelerate progress by enabling me to spend

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another round is starting If you have an idea for doing some work that will benefit the Perl or Raku communities, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 April 17th, UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through April 24th, and we

I'm sad to announce that the long running grant to revitalize blogs.perl.org is being closed out and will not be completed. André Walker's work in progress is available in this github repository: https://github.com/andrewalker/PearlBee André has put a lot of work into this grant thanks to him for the effort.

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January/February 2020 round. There was one proposal this round, which was approved funded.

Title Revising Perl's open and perlopentut manual pages for clarity and completeness Synopsis The manual page for one of Perl's most central functions open has problems. While nobody doubts the page's technical accuracy, head Perl maintainer Sawyer X nonetheless holds it up as an example of documentation in sore need of reorganization and revision. Towards the end of his TPC 2019 talk "Perl 5: The Past, The Present, and One

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 2020 round. Revising Perl's open and perlopentut manual pages Before the Committee members vote on any proposal, we like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by March 1st, 2020. The Committee members will start the voting process following that.

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another round is starting If you have an idea for doing some work that will benefit the Perl or Raku communities, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 February 22nd, UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through the end of February,

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November/December 2019 round. There was one proposal this round, which was approved. **Voting results: Approved: 7 YES votes, 0 NO votes, 3 abstentions The committee members were in general very positive about this proposal. We accept proposals throughout the year; our next round of review will begin early January 2020. You can submit proposals at any time. If you want to

The grant for Future::AsyncAwait by Paul Evans has been completed. Please see the final grant report, as well as the original proposal. The grants committee has voted to approve payout on this grant.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the November/December 2019 round. Implement Perl Binding for libuv Before the Committee members vote on any proposal, we like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by November 18th, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced by the end

UV Name: Paul Evans Amount Requested: USD 3,698 Synopsis Implement a Perl binding for libuv, wrapping as many of the features and types as is practical and useful for Perl 5. Benefits to the Perl Community The libuv library provides a multi-platform event system, and is the basis for the nodejs JavaScript and moarvm Perl 6 runtimes and the neovim text editor, to give a few examples. It

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another round is starting! If you have an idea for doing some work that will benefit the Perl or Raku communities, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 November 8th, UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through November 15th, and we

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September/October 2019 round.

There was one proposal this round, which was not approved.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 2019 round. Curating Perl 6 Documentation Before the Committee members vote on any proposal, we like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by September 27th, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced shortly after.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 2019 round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Due to my delay in posting this, I'm extending the comment period. Please review the proposal below and please comment here by September 27th, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Name: Richard Hainsworth

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another round is here! If you have an idea for doing some work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 13th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through September 20th, and conclude the process

Update for Revitalize blogs.perl.org We've had several changes in the GC staffing since this grant began; I'm taking over as the Grant Manager. André's last published status is here: http://blogs.perl.org/users/andrewalker/2018/10/progress-of-blogsperlorg-grant.html Since then, he has received a DB dump so he can process actual data rather than "Lorem Ipsum" sample posts. This will allow him to run through the final iteration of work to attempt to process the exported posts and

The Grants Committee has received no grant proposals for the July/August 2019 round. The community may submit proposals at any time, and the Committee will review them every two months. The next round will start in September 2019.

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Grants Committee has a new volunteer Grant Manager, Nadim ibn Hamouda ibn Othman El Khemir. Nadim has over fifteen years of perl experience with modules on https://metacpan.org/author/NKH, and https://github.com/nkh: Notably Asciio and Data::Dump::Tree He will start by taking up the management of the Perl 6 Networking support grant.

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Grants Committee has voted to accept a new member, Sebastian Riedel. Sebastian's been a Perl user for almost 20 years now, both professionally and privately, and has been involved in Perl community in some way for most of that time. It was the Perl community that brought him to Open Source, and he's contributed to hundreds of CPAN modules over the years.

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Grants Committee has voted to accept a new member, Nicolas R. Nicolas R. is an active Perl 5 developer, who took part of several Perl 5 toolchain summits and Perl 5 summits, where he provided a prototype for grep.metacpan.org He's currently maintaining the Perl 5 Compiler at cPanel LLC, and has also provided several minor optimizations to core. atoomic is the author

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Grants Committee has voted to accept a new member, Jason Crome. Jason has been hacking off and on in Perl since the early 2000s, and full time for about the last 7 years. He was an active member in the CGI::Application community back in the day, before moving on to Dancer. Presently, he is one of the Dancer Core Developers and the

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Grants Committee has voted to accept a new member, Todd Rinaldo. Todd is a CPAN author, a contributor to p5p and has one dev release under his belt. Todd has both attended and helped to organize YAPC/TPC. He has been coding perl since his first class on CGI programming in 1995.

Daisuke Maki has retired from the TPF Grants Committee. We appreciate his service to the community through the committee since 2013. We wish him well in whatever he takes on next.

Alberto Simões has retired from the TPF Grants Committee. We appreciate his service to the community through the committee since 2007, especially for his tenure as the Secretary of the committee. We wish him well in his future efforts.

Perrin Harkins has retired from the TPF Grants Committee. We appreciate his service to the community through the committee since 2008, and wish him well in his new endeavors. If you are interested in volunteering as a member on the committee, please reach out to me at tpf-grants-secretary@perlfoundation.org

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two month period and another round is here! If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 July 12th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through July 19th, and conclude

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May/June 2019 round. There was one proposal this round, which was approved and will be funded. Voting results: 5 Yes votes with a score of 20 no No votes. Several members commented that this latest revision of the proposal addressed issues raised by the GC in the previous version. We accept proposals throughout the year; our next round of review will

I am pleased to announce that the TPF Grants Committee has voted to accept a new member, Moritz Lenz. Moritz has been using Perl since at least 2003, and has been active on Perlmonks and in the German Perl community. Since 2007 he has also been active in Perl 6, become a core contributor to the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler and the official Perl 6 test suite, and has written

Rafael Garcia-Suarez has retired from the TPF Grants Committee. We appreciate his service to the community over the years, and wish him well in his new endeavors. If you are interested in volunteering as a member on the committee, please reach out to me at tpf-grants-secretary@perlfoundation.org

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 2019 round. A Complete Perl 6 Course with Exercises Before the Committee members vote on any proposal, we like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by June 14th, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced shortly

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 2019 round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by June 14th, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. A Complete Perl 6 Course with Exercises Name Andrew Shitov Amount Requested USD $10,000

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two month period and another round is here! If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 June 7th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through June 14th, and conclude

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November 2018 round. There was one proposal this round, which was not approved. Perl 6 Course with Exercises Voting results: Not approved: 3 YES votes with a score of 11 4 NO votes This was a close vote. Many members were very enthusiastic about this project. Others, while agreeing that a course like this would be good for the language, were

We are looking for new members to join the Grant Committee. We have a few members who are ready to retire, and so we have a few positions to consider filling. Voting members review proposals every two months, including community feedback, and vote on whether to approve/fund the grant. Grant Managers

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April 2019 round. Create a complete course of the Perl 6 programming language Before the Committee members vote on any proposal, we like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by March 22nd, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April 2019 round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by March 22nd, 2019. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. A Complete Perl 6 Course with Exercises Name Andrew Shitov Amount Requested USD $9,996

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 March 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through March 22nd, and

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the November 2018 round. There was one proposal this round, which was approved and funded. While we would normally have concluded this process sooner, there were delays related to the skipped January/February round, my apologies to all those impacted. Voting results: Approved and funded: 4 yes votes with a score of 18 Feedback generally positive suggested that future grants be considered in

Due to the lack of a budget for 2019, the Grants Committee process to request grant proposals is stalled. Once funds for the current year are allocated, we will re-open the RFP process. If you have further questions, please contact me at tpf-grants-secretary at perl-foundation.org.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Nov/Dec round. Improve Perl 6 Networking Support Before the Committee members vote on any proposal, we like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by December 22nd, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced shortly after.

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Nov/Dec round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by December 22nd, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Improve Perl 6 Networking Support Name: Ben Davies Amount Requested: USD $7200 Synopsis Perl 6

The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 December 15th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through December 22nd, and

The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September 2018 round. There were two proposals this round, both of which were approved and funded. Voting results: Approved and funded: 8 yes votes with a score of 32 Feedback generally positive. Voting results: Approved and funded: 6 yes votes with a score of 26 Feedback positive. One member noted that this is the kind of work that benefits from grant

The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct round. Before the Committee members vote, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community on the proposal. Review the proposal below and please comment here by October 17th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation Name: Bart Wiegmans Amount Requested: USD 7,000.