You can find on use.perl some updates on Adam Kennedy Perl on a Stick grant. Quoting: This is the first release of Strawberry Perl Portable Edition for Mobile Devices and Flash Drives Firstly, please note this is extremely alpha. In fact it's SO alpha that it's basically just whatever is on my test flash drive, zipped up with no packaging at all. To install, simply unzip it absolutely anywhere you

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

It took a long time, but for this round we had a big number of excellent proposals. Unfortunately TPF is unable to fund all the proposed grants as they exceed the funds available for Grants. Thus, TPF GC ranked proposals accordingly with its relevance to the community, and the first few were funded. These are the funded proposals: "Perl on a Stick":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_perl_on.html, by Adam Kennedy "Test::Builder 2":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_testbuil.html, by Michael Schwern

In July 2007, TPF granted Shlomi Fish for a Perl-Based Mediawiki Syntax Parser. Both parties have agreed to terminate this grant agreement. This will free up Shlomi to work on other projects, and allow the Perl Foundation to use the money to fund future grants.

To this post follows a set of posts with proposals received by the Perl Foundation grants committee during the second call for grant proposals for 2008. Although not usual, the rules of the TPF GC are changing and we hope to make this a rule. Proposals are accepted during one month and after that period, they are posted for public discussion on the Internet. This is important to make GC

Name: Alan Haggai Alavi Title: Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module Synopsis: Perl programs often need to manipulate .zip files. Archive::Zip is a Perl module that allows a Perl program to manage Zip archive files without calling an external utility. The Archive::Zip module, however, has some bugs which prevent it from generating fully-portable .zip files, that are handled correctly by all .zip file readers and manipulators. The project's main

Name: Paul Cain Title: CatalystX::Installer A generic GUI deployment for catalyst applications Synopsis: Create a web application that provides a cross-platform generic GUI for setting up Catalyst applications. There is no command line version of this program since anyone who wants to use the command line can just edit the configuration files directly. Name: Paul Cain Title: CatalystX::Installer A generic GUI deployment for catalyst applications Synopsis: Create a web application

Name: Kieren Diment Project Title: The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis: In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised and administered the Perl survey to provide a snapshot of the Perl community. In particular she made significant effort to recruit as many people as possible, resulting in a sample size of around 4500 responses. While an excellent start for a design for a survey instrument, it can be improved in a

Name: Eric Wilhelm Title: svn.cpan.org revision control for all of CPAN Synopsis: This project will create a universally addressable Subversion space for the Perl community. It will be populated with historical and ongoing CPAN releases. Every CPAN author will be given a public version control repository, and may use a portion of it for any purpose. Alternate views, such as mappings for each distribution, will be handled via the http

Author: Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson Title: Improve POE::Component::IRC Synopsis: I will improve POE::Component::IRC by overhauling its test suite, adding more features, fixing bugs and writing more documentation. AUTHOR: Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson NAME: Improve POE::Component::IRC SYNOPSIS: I will improve POE::Component::IRC by overhauling its test suite, adding more features, fixing bugs and writing more documentation. BENEFITS: PoCo::IRC is the most modern IRC client module for Perl out there. It is used for many

Name: Grant Grueninger Project Title: DBEditor Synopsis: DBEditor implements a CGI-based database editor. It allows you to very quickly implement a basic table editor by simply stating table data in configuration files Name: Grant Grueninger Project Title: DBEditor Synopsis: DBEditor implements a CGI-based database editor. It allows you to very quickly implement a basic table editor by simply stating table data in configuration files Set up your database config info:

Name: Colin Smith Title: Extending BSDPAN Synopsis: Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Name: Colin Smith Title: Extending BSDPAN Synopsis: Refactor the BSDPAN module into a generic and extensible solution for bridging CPAN with UNIX packaging systems. Benefits to the Perl Community: The wealth of freely available code CPAN represents is one of the Perl language's greatest strengths. Tighter

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Make localtime and gmtime Work Past 2038 Synopsis: Prevent the Y2038 bug from effecting Perl users. This means make localtime and gmtime work for times beyond 2038. Do this regardless of the state of the system C libraries. A working solution, in C, already exists. This grant is to finish the portability issues, write additional tests and change perl to use the repaired C

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: CPAN Stability Project Synopsis: The CPAN Stability Project is intended to improve the usability of CPAN over long term use by providing a way to choose between safe releases vs newest releases as well as to better guarantee that upgrading will not break anything. It draws heavily on Debian's release management and tiers Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: CPAN Stability Project Synopsis: The

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Test::Builder2 Synopsis: Write a new, incompatible version of Test::Builder to improve the architecture and support desired features which Test::Builder does not or cannot. Make sure that both Test::Builder and Test::Builder2 based testing modules can work together. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Test::Builder2 Synopsis: Write a new, incompatible version of Test::Builder to improve the architecture and support desired features which Test::Builder does not or

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Automatic INSTALL.txt generation Synopsis: Write a module which can automatically generate Perl module installation instructions. Integrate into Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Automatic INSTALL.txt generation Synopsis: Write a module which can automatically generate Perl module installation instructions. Integrate into Module::Build and ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Benefits to the Perl Community Most Perl modules come without module installation instructions. At most they might include

Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Module Authoring Documentation Synopsis: Write a "wizard" to guide users through finding the correct arguments for MakeMaker and Module::Build by asking them how they want modules installed. Provide as a stand alone app, integrate into the CPAN shell and as part of the MakeMaker and Module::Build installation. Name: Michael G Schwern Project Title: Module Installation Configuration Wizard Synopsis Write a "wizard" to guide users

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 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

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

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2008. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, 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. If you have a good idea and

If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it’s worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org Submission deadline is the last day of November, voting starts in December and we will be awarding the grants by the beginning of January. First, please read about how to submit a grant Read