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  • New TPF Blog Site Now Live Thu, 03-Oct-2019 by Jim Brandt

    If you're reading this, you probably noticed that things look a little different. We're very happy to announce that the blog update I mentioned at TPC this year is now live. The new blog is an instance of an all perl blogging platform called Rapi::Blog, which is built on RapidApp. All of the older posts and comments have been imported and should be available. Speaking of those hundreds of existing

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  • Stuart Mackintosh is new TPF President Fri, 30-Aug-2019 by Jim Brandt

    I'm very happy to report that following the nomination process, the board has elected Stuart Mackintosh as the new president of The Perl Foundation. Stuart will officially assume the role on September 1, 2019. Congratulations to Stuart and good luck in your new role!

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  • Clarification on 2019 Perl Conference SoC Incident Fri, 12-Jul-2019 by Jim Brandt

    There has been much discussion about the Perl Conference's Standards of Conduct Committee's decision to delist a video from the 2019 Perl Conference videos. We would like to provide some additional context to help explain this decision. This incident has been new to us from the beginning because it happened after the Perl Conference concluded. Most of our focus on SoC policy has been on handling incidents that might happen

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  • Stuart Mackintosh Nominated for TPF President Mon, 17-Jun-2019 by Jim Brandt

    Our next nominee to join the Perl Foundation board is a candidate to take over the very important role of President. We are very excited to present Stuart Mackintosh for this position. Stuart is based in the UK and has been working with Open Source software for over 25 years and through his company OpusVL since 1999. Over that time, he has worked with several open source organizations including OFE,

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  • White Camel Awards for 2018 Mon, 15-Apr-2019 by Jim Brandt
    in: Awards

    The White Camel Awards recognize outstanding, non-technical achievement in Perl. Started in 1999 by Perl mongers and later merged with The Perl Foundation, the awards committee selects three names from a long list of worthy Perl volunteers to recognize hard work in Perl Community, Perl Advocacy, and Perl User Groups. These awards have been managed by The Perl Review in conjunction with the The Perl Foundation. For 2018, the White

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  • 2019 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop CFP Thu, 03-Jan-2019 by Jim Brandt

    The 2019 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop will be in Silver Spring, MD, on April 6th, 2019. The call for talks is now open and this year's themes are Perl and related technologies. Proposals can be submitted through the workshop website until Jan 31, 2019. Registration is also open and attendance is free for speakers, students, and people currently between jobs. We hope to see you there!

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  • Dave Rolsky Joins TPF Board Mon, 03-Dec-2018 by Jim Brandt

    Following up on Dave Rolsky's recent nomination to the Perl Foundation board, we're pleased to announce that the board has voted and Dave has joined the board. As noted during his nomination process, Dave has a long history with Perl and the Perl Community as well as previous experience running other community-based organizations. We look forward to the experience and perspective he will bring to the Perl Foundation board in

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  • Dave Rolsky Nomination for TPF Board Tue, 16-Oct-2018 by Jim Brandt

    Dave Rolsky is our next nominee to join the Perl Foundation board. Dave is well known in the Perl community, for his extensive contributions to CPAN and for his frequent conference talks and classes. If you'd like to know a little more, he conveniently posts his resume on-line on his website. Below is some additional information on how Dave feels he can contribute to the board: Why do you want

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  • TPF Notes from OSCON 2018 Mon, 08-Oct-2018 by Jim Brandt

    As a somewhat delayed follow-up, TPF once again had a booth this year at OSCON, back in Portland, Oregon, this year. Josh McAdams was once again our organizer and staffed the booth for the event. O'Reilly provided The Perl Foundation with an excellent space in their Expo Hall. Situated conveniently near the lunch service, snacks, and an amazing swing, the booth received a constant stream of visitors. The visitors ranged

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  • Perl Foundation Website Update Sun, 05-Aug-2018 by Jim Brandt

    As I announced at The Perl Conference in Salt Lake City this year, we have completed our project to update the main Perl Foundation website. The new site is now live, with a new design and on a new hosting platform. This project was primarily done by a team of Niagara University students as part of their CIS 480 coursework. This senior level class requires the students to work in

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  • Ricardo Signes Joins TPF Board Tue, 03-Apr-2018 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Ricardo Signes Nomination for TPF Board Wed, 14-Mar-2018 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Kurt DeMaagd Stepping Down from TPF Board Fri, 04-Aug-2017 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Welcoming New Chair for the Community Advocacy Committee Tue, 06-Jun-2017 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • OSCON 2017 Wednesday Update Thu, 11-May-2017 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • TPF at OSCON 2017 Tue, 09-May-2017 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • TPF Committee Updates Wed, 22-Mar-2017 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Makoto Nozaki Appointed Secretary Thu, 02-Mar-2017 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • White Camel Awards for 2016 Tue, 20-Dec-2016 by Jim Brandt
    in: Awards

    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.

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  • Metacpan Upgraded Tue, 29-Nov-2016 by Jim Brandt
    in: CPAN

    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!

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  • Kickstarter to Support Learning Perl 6 Book Fri, 25-Nov-2016 by Jim Brandt

    A huge number of Perl users can trace their initial coding efforts back to O'Reilly's Learning Perl, now available in its 7th edition. The easy introduction and smooth tour of basic features through more powerful ones made it easy to get started, all with a focus on getting things done. brian d foy, well known in the Perl community and one of the authors of Learning Perl, has launched a

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  • TPF President Change Fri, 25-Nov-2016 by Jim Brandt

    As Mark Keating reported earlier this month, Karen Pauley has stepped down as TPF president after a very successful tenure. Karen served for an amazing 6+ years and did a fantastic job. I'd like to join Mark and many other people in the Perl Community in thanking Karen for all of her work. She has truly set a high bar for the president role. As some might recall, Karen took

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  • New TPF Conferences Chair Thu, 23-Aug-2012 by Jim Brandt

    I'm happy to announce that Heath Bair is our new Conferences Committee Chair. Heath was the organizer for YAPC::NA in Columbus in 2010 and he has remained passionate about YAPCs ever since. I'm looking forward to him bringing that passion to one of the most active committees in TPF. Please join me in congratulating Heath on his new role!

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  • TPF Now Accepting Nominations for Conferences Committee Chair Tue, 31-Jul-2012 by Jim Brandt

    Josh McAdams is stepping down as conferences chair, so TPF is now accepting self-nominations for this role. This is a great opportunity to help the Perl community and is one of the key roles that can have a huge impact without writing code. You can take a look at the expectations for the role on the "conference roles page":http://www.perlfoundation.org/conferences_committee_roles. If you're interested, answer the questions at the bottom of the

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  • YAPC::NA 2013 Will be in Austin Mon, 23-Jul-2012 by Jim Brandt

    I'm happy to announce that YAPC::NA in 2013 will be in Austin. We had two great locations to choose from, especially from the perspective of other interesting things to do outside the conference. Details and dates will be coming shortly. Congratulations to the Austin group!

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  • Austin YAPC::NA 2013 Bid Mon, 23-Jul-2012 by Jim Brandt

    Posting the bid submitted by Erica Baum for Austin to host YAPC::NA::2013. Austin YAPC Proposal.pdf

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  • Orlando YAPC::NA 2013 Bid Mon, 23-Jul-2012 by Jim Brandt

    Posting the bid submitted by Mark Prather for Orlando to host YAPC::NA::2013. yapc2013 proposal.pdf

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  • Lightning Talks at OSCON Wed, 11-Jul-2012 by Jim Brandt

    Going to be at OSCON this year? The Perl track will have the traditional lightning talk session along with Larry's State of the Onion. If you've got something to share, you've got 2 days left to "submit your lightning talk":http://bit.ly/NhdLEs to give everyone your 5 minutes of wisdom on Thursday evening. TPF will also have a booth at the expo, so stop by and say hi.

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  • YAPC::NA 2013 Venue Submission Deadline Extended Thu, 14-Jun-2012 by Jim Brandt

    To give a few interested groups more time to prepare and submit their bids for this year, we're extending the deadline to July 1. You can see details on how to submit in "previous posts":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/04/yapcna-2013-call-for-venue.html. If you're at "YAPC::NA":http://yapcna.org right now and you're interested, you should attend Dan Wright's talk "So, you want to run a Perl event?":http://act.yapcna.org/2012/talk/107 and attend the "YAPC BOF":http://act.yapcna.org/2012/wiki?node=YAPC%20BOF.

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  • TPF Position Changes Wed, 09-Sep-2009 by Jim Brandt

    Every year during conference season, we assess positions in TPF that we need to fill and take advantage of in-person meetings at conferences to try to find candidates. Now that we've worked through that cycle, I'm happy to announce some volunteers in new positions. Josh McAdams is moving from PR to Conference Chair and anyone who enjoyed the 2 YAPC::NAs in Chicago knows he's a natural for this position. Long-time

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  • Hague Grant Application: Rakudo Signature Improvements Sat, 05-Sep-2009 by Jim Brandt

    Below is the latest Hague grant request, submitted by Jonathan Worthington. Please feel free to comment below. h2. Project Title Rakudo Signature Improvements h2. Synopsis This grant aims to increase correctness, completeness, stability and performance of Rakudo's implementation of signatures and signature binding. h2. Benefits to Perl 6 Development Rakudo has continued to make impressive progress in recent months, and recently the Rakudo team, of which I am a part,

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  • CPAN Ticker Wed, 22-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    We've all seen various tickers like this "deficit tracker":http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/ticker_home.asp which track negative things to raise awareness. How hard would it be to create a CPAN ticker? Something like ticker.cpan.org to show distributions, etc. as they increase. Then maybe specific ones like ticker.cpan.org/Moose to watch distributions?

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  • Proposed Payments for Clearing Perl 5 Bugs Sun, 19-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    A few months ago, Nicholas Clark posted "an interesting plan":http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/05/msg146785.html to spend some of TPF's money. In fact, it's so interesting, we're going to try to take him up on it. At "YAPC::NA 2009":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/ this year, I sat down with Mark Keating, acting on behalf of the "Enlightened Perl":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ group, and we agreed to work on something like this: Mark and company will build a web app to manage the

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  • TPF Board Changes Mon, 13-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    There's been a bit of activity on the TPF Board over the past few weeks, so here's a summary of the current membership: Chairman: Nat Torkington has replaced Bill Odom as chairman. President: The TPF board has approved the "revised grant proposal":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/continued_review_of_tpf_grant.html from Richard Dice to do TPF infrastructure work and a condition of the approval is that he not be a sitting member of the board while working on

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  • Thanks to Booth Helpers Thu, 24-Jul-2008 by Jim Brandt

    I wanted to post a quick thanks to the folks helping out with the TPF booth this year. So thanks to ben hengst Jeff Lavallee, Uri, Josh, and all the other folks who took some time to make sure people got answers to their Perl questions. Jeff is a local and actually got permission from his manager to come down for just the day and man the booth.

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  • Perl on a Stick at OSCON Thu, 24-Jul-2008 by Jim Brandt

    As "reported recently":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/07/perl_on_a_stick_grant_update.html, Adam has made progress with his Perl on a Stick project. In fact, he's made enough progress that we're able to offer 1G USB drives loaded with "Strawberry Perl":http://strawberryperl.com/ here at OSCON for $15. We have them at the TPF Booth, so stop by and get one.

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  • TPF is at OSCON 2008 Mon, 21-Jul-2008 by Jim Brandt

    The Perl Foundation is at OSCON, so come join us. We'll be in the "Expo Hall":http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/expo-hall and we'll have some Perl items at the booth. If you'd like to help out and staff the booth, stop by or "sign up":http://oscon.kwiki.org/index.cgi?PerlFoundationBooth on the wiki. Look forward to seeing you.

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  • planet yapc now available Sun, 15-Jun-2008 by Jim Brandt

    Thanks to Karen and Marty Pauley, we now have a "Plagger site":http://planet.yapc.org set up aggregating yapc feeds. Give it a shot and let me know if we're not picking up your blog.

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  • YAPC::NA 2009 Call for Venue closing in less than a month Fri, 16-May-2008 by Jim Brandt

    This is a reminder that the YAPC::NA 2009 "Call for Venue":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/03/yapcna_2009_call_for_venue.html will be closing in less than a month. If you plan on trying to host YAPC::NA 2009 and you haven't started on your bid, you'd better get to it! The deadline for submissions this year is June 1st

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  • YAPC::NA Schedule and Early Bird Pricing Mon, 28-Apr-2008 by Jim Brandt

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

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  • Oslo QA Hackathon Thu, 03-Apr-2008 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • TPF Blog Back in Business Thu, 03-Apr-2008 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • YAPC::NA 2009 Call for Venue Mon, 24-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • Newest TPF Members Tue, 18-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    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

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  • YAPC::NA::2008 Call for Participation Extended Mon, 17-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    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.

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  • TPF Support of Artistic License (Jacobsen v. Katzer) Fri, 14-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    First, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not even particularly well versed in all of the issues surrounding open source licensing, the Artistic License, and copyright law. However, I am a member of The Perl Foundation and part of our mission is to support both versions of the Artistic License. As many readers of this blog already know, there is a court case in the federal district court in San

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  • yapc.org Domain Re-registered Thu, 13-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    The yapc.org site is now re-registered and available again. Actually, it was back up yesterday but with DNS caching it was hard to get to the real site if you'd already tried earlier Sorry for any inconvenience.

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  • yapc.org Temporarily Unavailable Tue, 11-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    If you've recently surfed over to yapc.org, you'll notice you're not getting the home page you expect. The domain inadvertently expired and we're currently working on renewing it. It turns out the reminders were going to an inactive email account. We're "not the first":http://www.whoisfinder.com/news/200402/washpost-renewal-failure.html to miss a renewal, but it's an inconvenience nonetheless. In the meantime, many of the upcoming Perl events are hosted via Act!, and they keep links

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  • Reminder: TPF Nomination Period Ends Tomorrow Mon, 10-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    This is a reminder that we plan on closing the open self-nomination period for the TPF Steering Committee Chair, Conference Committee Chair, and PR positions tomorrow. If you're on the fence, it's time to decide. Again, to participate, send me email at cbrandt at perlfoundation dot org and I'll send you an invite to the elections wiki we have set up.

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  • TPF Needs You: Nominations Open for Several TPF Roles Mon, 03-Mar-2008 by Jim Brandt

    Have you ever wanted to get involved in The Perl Foundation, but didn't know how? Well, now's your chance. I'm pleased to announce open self-nominations for the following TPF roles: "Steering Committee Chair":http://www.perlfoundation.org/steering_committee_chair "Conferences Committee Chair":http://www.perlfoundation.org/conferences_committee_roles "Public Relations":http://www.perlfoundation.org/public_relations You can follow the links above to read descriptions of each of the positions. If you think you're a good fit for one or more of them, send me an email at

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  • rt.cpan.org Speed Improvements in Place Tue, 12-Feb-2008 by Jim Brandt
    in: Projects

    A while back, around November 2007, there was "some discussion":http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/34801 about performance problems with rt.cpan.org to the point that some found it to be almost unusable. I bring this up here because there were some suggestions that perhaps TPF could buy some new hardware. If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see Jesse Vincent jumped in and said he thought the performance wasn't a hardware problem and he could make

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  • yapc.org Updates Mon, 11-Feb-2008 by Jim Brandt

    Thanks to some help from Will Willis and Jeremy Fluhmann, of the Perl Foundation conferences committee, yapc.org has a few new items. Specifically, we've included ads from the "Perl community ad server ":http://adserver.szabgab.com/ provided by Gabor Szabo and a new Workshops page that describes how to organize a workshop and what TPF can do to help.

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  • More Perl Events, More Act! Translations Mon, 04-Feb-2008 by Jim Brandt

    A bunch of new requests for "Act":http://act.mongueurs.net/ -hosted conference sites have gone in to the Act developers and each has offered to update translation files. This is great news as it provides even more Perl events, keeps the Act translation files up-to-date, and it shows the investment by people all over the world to keep Perl vibrant. It also shows the world-wide reach of the Perl community. Some of the

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  • I Need a CRM Package Sun, 13-Jan-2008 by Jim Brandt

    Over the past few months, I've been working with Kurt to evaluate LedgerSMB a Perl-based accounting system that we thought we might be able to start using for our Perl Foundation accounting. So far, it looks promising and we're continuing our evaluation on a demo install. I've been looking for an open source package because we want the flexibility to integrate with Act, the conference software used by many Perl

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  • yapc.org Gets a Facelift Wed, 26-Sep-2007 by Jim Brandt

    As anyone visiting yapc.org in the past will tell you, it was in desperate need of some TLC. I drew some momentum from YAPC::NA this summer and finally gave it a facelift. There's more work to do, but I think it's a big improvement. The front page is built based on a feed from the Perl Community Calendar maintained by brian foy in Google Calendar. If you want your event

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  • Copenhagen, Denmark to host YAPC::Europe 2008 Fri, 14-Sep-2007 by Jim Brandt

    In case you missed it, here's the official press release from YEF regarding YAPC::Europe next year. Given the numbers at YAPC::Europe this year, it looks like they'll need a good-sized venue. From: YEF Venue Committee Subject: Copenhagen, Denmark to host YAPC::Europe 2008 The YAPC::Europe Foundation is pleased to announce that Copenhagen, Denmark has been chosen as the site for YAPC::Europe 2008, the ninth European YAPC. Copenhagen faced stiff competition from

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  • YAPC::NA in Chicago...again! Fri, 24-Aug-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Chicago.pm has stepped up to be first group in recent years to bid for a repeat YAPC, and in close voting they nudged out Columbus for the opportunity to do it. Jonathan Rockway will be the head organizer, with support from previous Chicago organizers Josh McAdams and Pete Krawczyk. Both groups submitted strong bids and it was a tough choice. Watch for more announcements with final dates and other details.

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  • YAPC::NA::2008 Chicago.pm Bid Thu, 02-Aug-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Read on for the Chicago.pm bid. The formatting suffered a bit on this one too. Overview YAPC::NA 2006 fared so well for Chicago.pm that we decided to throw our hats in the ring again and try for YAPC::NA 2008. The 2006 conference was great for the group; it re-energized our membership, introduced many of us to the greater Perl community, and taught us many lessons on how to manage a

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  • YAPC::NA::2008 Columbus.pm Bid Thu, 02-Aug-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Read on for the full Columbus bid. Note that the version we received was nicely formatted, especially the tables. When I copied from the PDF, I lost the formatting. Overview In 2006 Columbus was ranked as the United States 15th largest city, with 733,203 residents, and is the country's 32nd largest metropolitan area. Located with Columbus is the world renowned Ohio State University. OSU is currently the largest university in

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  • Call for Venue Closed Thu, 02-Aug-2007 by Jim Brandt

    The call for venue for YAPC::NA::2008 is closed. We received two bids, a rebid from Chicago and a first-time bid from Columbus.pm. I'll be posting the bid details shortly. The Conferences Committee will then begin the review and voting.

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  • The Perl Foundation is at OSCON Wed, 25-Jul-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Got a question about The Perl Foundation Want to volunteer some time for The Perl Foundation? Come see us on the floor in the Expo Hall at OSCON We're right next to the massage booth!

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  • Reminder: Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2008 deadline Wed, 11-Jul-2007 by Jim Brandt

    The deadline for submitting your venue bids for this year is approaching. I know there are some folks out there working on bids, so don't count on us going into overtime. The due date is August 1. You can find more details in this year's call and the previous call

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  • Help Wanted: Some Hacking on a Google Calendar Script Fri, 29-Jun-2007 by Jim Brandt

    This is an easy one. I need a script to grab conference event data from the Perl community Google calendar. I've got it started, but it needs some polishing. If you're interested, email me and I'll send you what I've got so far

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  • Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2008 Thu, 10-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    It's that time of year again--we need your bids in to host YAPC::NA in your town next summer. Most of the details for a bid are in my post from last year To re-iterate a few points: If you plan on bidding, folks from your group should really attend YAPC::NA this year to see how things work and maybe even help out. Get your bid ready early and we'll give

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  • Help Wanted: SOAP::Lite Wed, 02-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Here's my first Help Wanted entry. SOAP::Lite needs your help. Byrne Reese has posted a good assessment of the state of the SOAP::Lite Read on for details. To start, SOAP::Lite works. That is, it works well for easy things and you can get it to work for complicated things. But it needs help and it's going to need more help in the near future. SOAP is becoming more and more

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  • Help Wanted: Perl Coding Needed Wed, 02-May-2007 by Jim Brandt

    I often hear this: "I'd get involved in Perl, but all the cool stuff is done and there's no room to make a name for myself. No one needs another DBI module..." or even: "All the cool kids are using because they don't have CPAN yet and they can become the uber-programmer for the cool modules." Well, to these I say, "Nonsense!" There is a ton of work to be

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  • Perl Events, Great and Small Tue, 10-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    There are so many Perl events around the world now that I thought I'd take a shot at categorizing how they all relate to one another. I thought this might help people thinking about attending something for the first time, people thinking about presenting something and also people thinking about organizing an event. For people thinking about becoming more involved in the Perl community, this presents a sort of ladder

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  • Planet YAPC Fri, 06-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    With so many Perl events going on around the world, I often wish I could take a quick peek to see what's going on at each one. I watch the conference sites and wikis when I can and I watch use.perl, but not everyone posts info there. I think what I really want is a planet yapc aggregator like planet perl that could pull in blogs tagged with pre-arranged tags.

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  • YAPC::Europe::2008 Call for Venue Thu, 05-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Just announced Note that based on our schedule, the call for venue for YAPC::NA will be coming soon as well. With preparations for YAPC::Europe::2007 well underway in Vienna, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee to consider suitable hosts for the 2008 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe::2008 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org A full and complete application should then be sent to

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  • YAPC::NA Registration Open with Act Mon, 02-Apr-2007 by Jim Brandt

    In case you haven't seen it elsewhere registration for YAPC::NA is now open One really cool part about this is that it takes the Act! -hosted conference site to the next point of integration, which is accepting payments through the Perl Foundation's payment site This fulfills a large part of my call last year for a conference system I mentioned that Act was a start, but it wasn't open-source and

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  • European Perl Hackathon Results Thu, 22-Mar-2007 by Jim Brandt

    The first European Perl Hackathon has successfully concluded. They ended up with 16 registered attendees from 6 different countries. Read on for more details. The total cost to The Perl Foundation was 468.71 euros, and you can read about what they got done on the successes page Work was done on Parrot, Perl, Act, CPAN6, and a few other things. You can find some additional info here: Flickr Spaanse Filosoof

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  • Haskell book available on wikibooks Mon, 12-Feb-2007 by Jim Brandt

    I was checking out Wikibooks today and noticed that one of the "hot picks" is a wikibook on Haskell Looks like it might be a good way to get your feet wet and maybe help out the Perl 6 development effort.

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  • European Perl Hackathon Fri, 02-Feb-2007 by Jim Brandt

    Details are now available for the European Perl Hackathon in Arnhem, the Netherlands, from 2 4 March, 2007. Space is limited for this one and it's coming up soon, so don't wait if you're interested. From the organizers: Familiarity with the featured projects is not required; you need only bring a laptop and a willingness to join in. Although there is no fee to attend the hackathon, you are required

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  • Time to prepare your presentations Mon, 29-Jan-2007 by Jim Brandt

    It's the time of year to gather up all the cool stuff you've been working on and get it ready to show everyone else. The calls are out there for several conferences right now: YAPC::Asia Nordic Perl Workshop YAPC::NA YAPC::EU OSCON Wow, that's a lot of Perl to talk about.

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  • A Conference Toolkit (ACT) Goes Open Source Fri, 26-Jan-2007 by Jim Brandt

    A while ago I blogged that I really wanted a Perl-based conference toolkit that YAPCs and other conferences could use so they didn't spend time hacking on the website when they should be organizing the conference. Well, the folks who work on ACT have been working to fulfill some of the items I presented and earlier today they officially announced that it is open source with a dual GPL/Artistic license.

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  • Perl Hackathons Gaining Steam Wed, 27-Dec-2006 by Jim Brandt

    It seems the Chicago hackathon organized by Andy Lester and Pete Krawczyk and sponsored by the Perl Foundation has sparked some interest from other groups. We think these events are a great way to support Perl, use your donations effectively, and keep things rolling on various active projects. Now we need some ideas on how we should keep things going. I think hackathons will largely be regional events. This is

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  • Moving toward a conferences toolkit (ACT) Fri, 06-Oct-2006 by Jim Brandt

    Long-time readers might remember my plea for a conference module to allow YAPC organizers to organize rather than hack the website. Well, I'm very pleased to announce that I was able to get in touch with the YAPC Europe folks and the ACT folks and they have agreed to work on making ACT the default YAPC web site framework. One of the main issues with ACT was that it hadn't

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  • Houston and Vienna for YAPCs Next Year Fri, 01-Sep-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Perl Foundation in conjunction with the YAPC::Europe Foundation are happy to announce Houston and Vienna as the venues for next year's North American and European YAPCs. The votes were close again this year for YAPC::NA and we had three excellent bids from Boston, Houston, and Philadelphia. With the evaluations complete, the Perl Foundation's Conferences Committee has selected Houston, Texas, as the venue for YAPC::NA::2007. The proposal was a joint

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  • Bids Posted Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    I have posted all the bids. If you seen any horrible errors in my cut-and-paste, let me know perlfoundation.org or post a comment.

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Boston Bid Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Boston.pm bid follows: Update: Applied some formatting updates from Bob Clancy to address cut-off columns on some tables. NAME SYNOPSIS CRITERIA Estimated Costs Site 1: Northeastern University Introduction Meeting Room Costs Banquet Costs Possible University Staff Costs A/V costs Speaker Costs Other Costs Site 2: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Readily Accessible Location Public Transportation

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Philadelphia Bid Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Philadelphia.pm bid follows: YAPC::Philadelphia 2007 Overview Why Philadelphia? Because Philadelphia is less than an 8 hour drive for one third of the nation's population. Because it is home of the cheesesteak. And most importantly because we are hosting YAPC just before Independence Day, a day the city participated in creating. Each year Philadelphia celebrates with more than a week of activities at the Sunoco Welcome America festival complete with

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Houston Bid Fri, 04-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    The Houston.pm bid follows: Overview Proposed Dates Facilities Location Rice University University of Houston Downtown University of Houston Internet Access Cost/Affordability Low Cost Experience Attendee Cost Conference Budget Audio/Visual and Equipment Other Fees and Services Accommodations Food Service/Catering Dining Catering Internet Access Alternative Accommodations Transportation Getting to Houston

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  • YAPC::NA::2007 Call for Venue Now Closed Thu, 03-Aug-2006 by Jim Brandt

    After a flurry of last minute activity and a submission at 11:58 PM EST last night, the bidding period for hosting YAPC::NA::2007 is now closed. I'm happy to report that we have three bids, two of them from confederations of multiple PM groups. First, let me clarify that I did extend the bid deadline by one day because of some confusion with one of the groups regarding the due date.

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  • YAPC::NA call for venue deadline tomorrow Mon, 31-Jul-2006 by Jim Brandt

    I think the title says it all. August 1 is the deadline, so get your hosting bids polished up and submitted. As discussed here previously, once the call for venue is officially closed

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  • Reminder: YAPC::NA Call for Venue Closing Soon Mon, 17-Jul-2006 by Jim Brandt

    As spelled out in my original Call for Venue August 1st is the closing date. At this year's YAPC::NA, the YAPC BOF drew some interested parties from Texas who were considering a bid. I also believe Boston.pm were going to re-submit, but I haven't heard anything from them recently. Did you attend this year and have a blast? Can you keep YAPC::NA going? We need you to make it happen

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  • YAPC Buffalo bid document Mon, 26-Jun-2006 by Jim Brandt

    In the interest of providing more examples of bids from the past to help future bidders, I'm posting the Buffalo bid here. Read on for details. Note that we had a wiki up with details, pictures, etc., but the wiki has since gone away. Proposed dates: To keep with past years, it seems June 16-18, 2004 would be best. However, we can be flexible with other dates in June. Facilities.

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  • When to make bids public Tue, 09-May-2006 by Jim Brandt

    Jeremy Fluhmann responded to my Call for Venue post saying he'd be interested to see the other bids when they get posted. This brings up a good point: when should the bids be made public? My thought was that they would be made public after the Conferences Committee has selected the host group. This allows people to see what we voted on and it's a good reference for next year.

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  • Call for Venue--YAPC::NA::2007 Wed, 03-May-2006 by Jim Brandt

    Can't figure out how you're going to get to Chicago for YAPC::NA this year and wish it was in your city? Want to meet Perl luminaries, but aren't sure how? Want to contribute to Perl without writing a new MVC framework? If you answer yes to at least two of these questions, you might be just the person we want to host YAPC next year. But you can't host if

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  • I need a perl-based conference system Fri, 31-Mar-2006 by Jim Brandt

    As TPF Conferences Chair, I try to help eager, excited organizers put together a YAPC. Ever since I ran YAPC in Buffalo in 2004 I've wanted to put together something called Conference::Toolkit that would solve all of the YAPC web-site needs. Well, given my TPF duties, I honestly don't have the time to do this right. And I want it done right. I want to put together the best conference

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  • YAPC::Asia::2006 coming soon in Tokyo Fri, 24-Mar-2006 by Jim Brandt

    I've been remiss in noting that YAPC::Asia::2006 is right around the corner. But if you're in Tokyo and want to go, it appears you're a bit too late. They've sold out! They have a great line-up of talks and speakers If you're already registered, have fun!

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  • YAPC::Brasil::2006 Coming in April Wed, 08-Mar-2006 by Jim Brandt

    This year YAPC::Brasil will be held April 19-22, 2006 in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil in conjunction with the 7th International Free Software Forum From what I've heard, FISL

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  • OSDC Israel and pre-event Perl 6 work Wed, 22-Feb-2006 by Jim Brandt

    In Toronto last year, there was a pre-YAPC hack-a-thon that brought together many of the Perl 6 coders in person, which can be very productive. TPF provided $600 US to cover costs, and as you can tell by the amount, the group worked as low-budget as possible. Right now, the week before OSDC Israel they are

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  • Conferences Really Do Work Fri, 13-Jan-2006 by Jim Brandt

    Sometimes people might question the tangible value of going to a conference. You're out of the office for a few days, so you lose that work time. You attend a ton of sessions and you're drinking from a fire hose, so after about half a day you feel totally overwhelmed. Does any of it stick? I can tell you for sure that it does. The other day someone in my

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  • YAPC::NA 2005 download stats Wed, 04-Jan-2006 by Jim Brandt

    This year the Toronto folks managed to record audio and video for the YAPC::NA conference sessions, as reported on use.perl.org After a few months of availability, Fulko Hew has shared his stats with me: 7 mail-orders 111 CD downloads 953 DVD downloads private duplications 4 Terabytes Given that the DVD was 4.23 Gig, that's a lot of bits, both for the sender and receiver. I don't think that

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  • Round Table Sessions Thu, 22-Dec-2005 by Jim Brandt

    As I mentioned previously, I recently attended the Gartner Open Source Summit. While there I participated in a new type of session Gartner has started moderating called a round table session, and I think it's a really cool idea. When you attend a Gartner conference, you are eligible to sign up for one-on-one sessions with the Gartner analysts. This is a nice perk, since you usually have to pay for

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  • Gartner Open Source Summit Mon, 12-Dec-2005 by Jim Brandt

    Last week I attended the first annual Gartner Open Source Summit Gartner is a major IT market researcher and consultant, specifically for large businesses. The fact that this conference exists speaks volumes for the penetration of open source in all sorts of IT shops. OSS hung under the radar for quite a while because it doesn't show up in any of the traditional data that analysts use to measure market

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  • Vancouver 2006 YAPC Bid Tue, 06-Dec-2005 by Jim Brandt

    Below is the bid submitted by the Vancouver group. Location: Vancouver, Canada. Located on the west coast of Canada, Vancouver is a novel choice for YAPC. Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia and the third largest city in Canada. It's surrounded by water on three sides and is nestled alongside the Coast Mountain Range. Vancouver is home to spectacular natural scenery and a bustling metropolitan

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  • Chicago 2006 YAPC Bid Tue, 06-Dec-2005 by Jim Brandt

    Below is the bid submitted by the Chicago group. Chicago was selected to host YAPC::NA::2006. Overview Who we are Why Chicago? Dates and Location Facilities Facility Location Facility Layout and Capacity A/V and Internet arrangements Cost Summary Individual Costs: $245 Travel Conference Fees Per Person: $55 Conference: Possible! Accommodations Low-Cost Arrangements Hotels Transportation

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  • Boston 2006 YAPC Bid Tue, 06-Dec-2005 by Jim Brandt

    Below is the bid submitted by the Boston group. NAME SYNOPSIS CRITERIA Estimated Costs Site 1: University of Massachusetts: Boston Campus Site 2: Simmons College Site 3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Readily Accessible Location Public Transportation Facilities UMass Boston Simmons MIT Internet Access from Conference Location Internet Access from Accomodations New Location Affordable

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  • YAPC::NA Voting Details Fri, 02-Dec-2005 by Jim Brandt

    I was previously posting TPF conferences-related information to my personal blog on use.perl.org. Now we have this excellent TPF blog for TPF info, so I'll be posting here. As I said in a previous post all of the bids this year were quite good. To give a little more transparency into the voting process, you can see the anonymous vote breakdowns below: Boston Chicago Vancouver 2840 2980 2690

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