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  • Will Coleda retiring Sat, 06-Jun-2020 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • New Grants Committee Secretary Tue, 19-May-2020 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • March 2020 Votes - Update Mon, 18-May-2020 by Coke

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

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  • Grants: March 2020 Votes Mon, 04-May-2020 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposals March/April 2020 Sat, 18-Apr-2020 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grant Proposal: RakuAST Sat, 18-Apr-2020 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals ( March 2020 Round) Thu, 09-Apr-2020 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Cancellation: blogs.perl.org update Mon, 30-Mar-2020 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grants: February 2020 Votes Sat, 28-Mar-2020 by Coke

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

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  • Grant Proposal: Revising Perl's open and perlopentut manual pages Tue, 25-Feb-2020 by Coke

    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

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  • Grant Proposals January/February 2020 Tue, 25-Feb-2020 by Coke

    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.

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (January 2020 Round) Sun, 16-Feb-2020 by Coke

    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,

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  • Grants: November 2019 Votes Thu, 05-Dec-2019 by Coke

    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

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  • Grant Completed: Future::AsyncAwait Mon, 11-Nov-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grant Proposals: November/December 2019 Mon, 11-Nov-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: Implement Perl Binding for libuv Mon, 11-Nov-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (November 2019 Round) Fri, 01-Nov-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grants: September 2019 Votes Fri, 04-Oct-2019 by Coke

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

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

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  • Grant Proposals Sep/Oct 2019 Sat, 21-Sep-2019 by Coke

    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.

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  • Grant Proposal: Curating Perl 6 Documentation Tue, 17-Sep-2019 by Coke

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (September 2019 Round) Tue, 03-Sep-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Revitalize blogs.perl.org - Status Report Wed, 14-Aug-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposals Jul/Aug 2019 Mon, 15-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Nadim Khemir Wed, 10-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Sebastian Riedel Tue, 09-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Nicolas R Mon, 08-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Jason Crome Sun, 07-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Todd Rinaldo Sat, 06-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Daisuke Maki Fri, 05-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Alberto Simões Thu, 04-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Perrin Harkins Wed, 03-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (July 2019 Round) Tue, 02-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grants: May/Jun 2019 votes Mon, 01-Jul-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Moritz Lenz Mon, 10-Jun-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • TPF Grants Committee: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Mon, 10-Jun-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposals May/Jun 2019 Mon, 10-Jun-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: A Complete Perl 6 Course with Exercises Mon, 10-Jun-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (May 2019 Round) Thu, 30-May-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grants: March 2019 votes Tue, 09-Apr-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Committee - Request for Members Wed, 20-Mar-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposals Mar/Apr 2019 Sat, 16-Mar-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: Create a complete course of the Perl 6 programming language Sat, 16-Mar-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (March 2019 Round) Fri, 01-Mar-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grants: November 2018 votes Fri, 01-Mar-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (January 2019 Round) Sun, 27-Jan-2019 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grant Proposals Nov/Dec 2018 Sun, 16-Dec-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grant Proposal: Improve Perl 6 Networking Support Sun, 16-Dec-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (November 2018 Round) Fri, 30-Nov-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • September 2018 Grant Votes Fri, 30-Nov-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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

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  • Grant Proposal: MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation Wed, 10-Oct-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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.

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  • Grant Proposal: Future::AsyncAwait Thu, 04-Oct-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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. Update: You have until October 17th! Review the proposal below and please comment here by October 10th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Future::AsyncAwait Name: Paul Evans Amount Requested: GBP 4,800

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  • Grant Proposals Sep/Oct 2018 Thu, 04-Oct-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Apologies for delays this month from the original schedule. The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the Sep/Oct round. Future::AsyncAwait MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by October 10th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (September 2018 Round) Sun, 16-Sep-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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 September 30th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through October 7th, and

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  • July 2018 Grant Votes Tue, 11-Sep-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2018 round. My apologies for the delay. There was one proposal this round, which was not approved. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Voting results: Not approved: 5 no votes, 4 abstentions Concerns from the committee included a lack of clarity on whether this was a continuation of an existing project or new development, and issues with the proposed syntax, esp.

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  • Grant Proposals: July/August 2018 Sun, 19-Aug-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August round. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by August 26th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced shortly after.

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  • Grant Proposal: Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Sun, 19-Aug-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August 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 August 26th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that. Perl as piano sheet music/compiler/synthesizer Name: Yang Bo Amount Requested: USD 2,500 Synopsis Write a

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (July 2018 Round) Sun, 29-Jul-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and

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  • May 2018 Grant Votes Sun, 29-Jul-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2018 round. My apologies for the delay. There were two proposals this round, but neither submission was approved. Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 Voting results: Not approved: 4 no votes, 5 abstentions The committee is hesitant to fund a book at this time; there are several books on the market today; how would a freshman effort compare to

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  • May/June Status Thu, 19-Jul-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Apologies for the delay; the GC is now conducting our voting for the May/June round and will post results next week. Thank you for your patience. Please look for the next Call for Proposals before the end of the month for the July/August round.

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  • Grant Completed: Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Wed, 04-Jul-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    I'm happy to note that the Curating and improving Perl6 documentation grant has submitted a final report, and the work has been accepted by the Committee. Thanks to JJ for his work on this project, and also to Mark for acting as grant manager.

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  • Grant Completed: Complete YAML::PP Thu, 28-Jun-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    I'm pleased to announce that the Complete YAML::PP grant is now itself completed, and the work has been accepted by the Committee. Thanks to Tina for her work, and to Mark for acting as grant manager.

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  • Grant Report: Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Mon, 18-Jun-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Zoffix has posted his June Report. Most of the work on constants has been completed; Some bad math on zero-denominator rationals has been fixed. As Zoffix works through these issues, some work may find its way into ecosystem modules instead of core Perl 6. You can read all the details at his June 2018 blogs.perl.com posting Note that Zoffix will be taking the next month off to focus on some

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  • Grant Proposal: Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 Mon, 11-Jun-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. Introduction to Application Development with Perl

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  • Grant Proposal: App::rs - The first reference counting CPAN client Mon, 11-Jun-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of June. App::rs The first reference counting CPAN

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  • Grant Proposals: May/June 2018 Mon, 11-Jun-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the May/June round. Introduction to Application Development with Perl 6 App::rs The first reference counting CPAN client Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by June 16th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (May 2018 Round) Fri, 01-Jun-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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 June 9th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through June 16th, and

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  • Grant Completed: Test2 Manual Fri, 01-Jun-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    I'm happy to report that the Test2 Manual has been accepted as complete by the Committee. Thanks to Chad for seeing this grant through, and to Alberto for acting as grant manager.

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  • Grant Report: Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Thu, 31-May-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Zoffix has already dug in on his grant, making some decent progress in the first month. Taking a test driven approach and implementing tests for the work in branches, he's identified some issues that will cause him to modify the original approach. You can read all the details at his May 2018 blogs.perl.com posting

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  • March 2018 Grant Votes Thu, 26-Apr-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2018 round. There was one proposal this round: Voting results: Approved and funded: 7 yes votes with a score of 31 No specific feedback is available. Next Round We accept proposals throughout the year; our next round of voting would be in May You can submit proposals now. If you want to help with funding and increase our budget, please

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  • Grant Proposal: Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals / Fixing Constraints on Constants Mon, 02-Apr-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Name: Zoffix Znet Amount Requested: USD 1,999 Synopsis The proposal is to perform two pieces of work on the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler along with a third bonus piece: 1. Implement support for type constraints on constants and polish some of the rough edges with and constants initializer calls. 2. Fix several bugs and a race

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  • Grant Proposals: March/April 2018 Mon, 02-Apr-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the March/April round. Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and please comment there by April 7th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (March 2018 Round) Tue, 20-Mar-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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 27th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through April 3rd, and

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  • January 2018 Grant Votes Mon, 05-Mar-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the January 2018 round. There were six proposals in this round. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Voting results: Approved and funded: 5 yes, 1 abstention, 1 no with a score of 15 Some voters expressed concern about the comments/feedback posted on the grant. It is our hope that the requestor will work closely with the community when implementing this grant. Future grants

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  • Grant Proposal: Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Name: John

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  • Grant Proposals: January/February 2017 Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposals for the January/February round. Perl Camp in Democratic Republic of Congo Curating and improving Perl6 documentation MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler List Operators In RPerl Compiler OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler Perl-Based CloudForFree.org Platform Before the Committee members vote on the proposals, we would like to solicit feedback from the Perl community. Review the proposals at their individual links and

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  • Grant Proposal: OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. OS Installation Packages for RPerl Compiler

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  • Grant Proposal: List Operators In RPerl Compiler Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. List Operators In RPerl Compiler Name:

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  • Grant Proposal: MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. MySQL Support In RPerl Compiler Name:

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  • Grant Proposal: Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Curating and improving Perl6 documentation Name:

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  • Grant Proposal: Perl Camp in Democratic Republic of Congo Tue, 13-Feb-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the January/February 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 February 20th, 2018. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the last week of February. Please note that this particular request

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (January 2018 Round) Wed, 31-Jan-2018 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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, consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 February 11th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through February 18th, and conclude

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  • Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering: November 2017 Sun, 19-Nov-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    As part of the Perl 6 core development fund, Jonathan Worthington has completed another 200 hour block of hours, and his report of what was completed follows the break. Many thanks to the TPF sponsors of this and other grants. If you're interested in supporting work like this, please donate: http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ Grant Completion Report: Perl 6 Performance and Reliability Engineering At the end of July, I was granted a 200

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  • Call For Proposals: November 2017 Round Sun, 12-Nov-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has expended its budget for the period ending with 2017. In accordance with the TPF rules of operation grants evaluations are stalled until further notice. I'm expecting that we'll be able to re-open evaluations starting in the January 2018 period. Thanks to all the TPF sponsors that make the grants process possible. Please consider becoming one and donating at http://donate.perlfoundation.org/ If you have further questions, please contact

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  • September 2017 Grant Votes Sat, 07-Oct-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the September 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling Performance Analysis Voting results: 7 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 33 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Start Act Voyager Voyager Voting results: 2 Yes votes, 1 abstention, and 6 No votes This grant is not approved. Concerns were

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  • Grant: Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support - Completed Sat, 07-Oct-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    I'm happy to announce that the GC has voted to accept the completion of the grant http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/04/grant-proposal.html by Samantha McVey

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  • Final Report: Start ACT - Voyager Sat, 07-Oct-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    This is a bookkeeping post regarding the 2014 Grant "Start ACT Voyager". Due to the Grant Committee's rules of operations, this grant was cancelled due to lack of progress in August of 2017.

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  • Grant Proposal: Act Voyager Wed, 20-Sep-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 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 September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Act Voyager Name: Theo van

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  • Grant Proposal: Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling Tue, 19-Sep-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the September/October 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 September 26th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced the first week of October. Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (September 2017 Round) Sat, 09-Sep-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    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, consider submitting a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 September 16th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through September 23rd, and conclude

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  • July 2017 Grant Votes Tue, 29-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the July 2017 round. There was one proposal in this round. Complete YAML::PP Complete YAML::PP Voting results: 8 Yes votes, and 1 abstention with a score of 40 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Tina's previous work in this area and enthusiasm were mentioned. Next Round Our next round will be in September; we've been running a little late in

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  • May 2017 Grant Votes; Part 2 Wed, 09-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Let me start out by apologizing for the delay in this posting, it's highly overdue; the question of whether or not funding was available turned out to be slightly more complicated than anyone anticipated.... As previously posted, one grant was posted in this period: Revitalize blogs.perl.org Voting results were: 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 0, Abstain, No. This resulted in a an approval status, and I'm happy to announce the

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  • Grant Proposal: Complete YAML::PP Mon, 07-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the July/August 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 August 14th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately one week after public comments. Complete YAML::PP Name:

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (July 2017 Round) Tue, 01-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 August 5th UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback through August 12th, and conclude acceptance

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  • May 2017 Grant Votes Tue, 01-Aug-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the May 2017 round There was one proposal in this round, which was approved. I am currently working with the treasurer to verify funding. Voting results: 6 Yes votes, 1 No Vote, and 1 abstention with a score of 24 Big thanks to André Walker for his patience as I become accustomed to the GC workflow. I am very hopeful that funding

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  • Perl 6 IO Grant: May 2017 Report (Complete) Tue, 06-Jun-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Zoffix Znet provided this report on May 29, 2017 The Grants Committee will vote on its completion and payment. If you have feedback or questions, please comment here COMPLETION Report Perl 6 IO TPF Grant This document is the May, 2017 progress report for I believe I reasonably satisfied the goals of the grant and consider it completed. This is the final report and may reference some of the work/commits

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  • Grant Proposal: Revitalize blogs.perl.org Tue, 06-Jun-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has received the following grant proposal for the May/June 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 15th, 2017. The Committee members will start the voting process following that and the conclusion will be announced approximately in one week. Revitalize blogs.perl.org Name: Andr� Walker Amount

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  • Call for Grant Proposals (May 2017 Round) Tue, 23-May-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period has come. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, consider sending a grant application. The application deadline for this round is 23:59 June 2nd UTC. We will publish the received applications, get community feedback and conclude acceptance by June 12th.

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  • March 2017 Grant Votes Thu, 27-Apr-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    The Grants Committee has concluded the voting of the March 2017 round. There were two proposals in this round: Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support… Improving the Robustness of Unicode Support in Rakudo on MoarVM Voting results: 6 Yes votes, and 2 abstentions with a score of 21 This grant is approved, and will be funded. Sam's previous contributions in this area make her likely to succeed in making marked

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  • Perl 6 IO Grant: April 2017 Report Wed, 26-Apr-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Zoffix Znet provided this report on April 19, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the April, 2017 progress report for Timing As proposed to and approved by the Grant Manager, I've extended the due date for this grant by 1 extra month, in exchange for doing some extra optimization work on IO routines at no extra cost. The new completion date is May 22nd; right

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  • Perl 6 IO Grant: March 2017 Report Tue, 04-Apr-2017 by Coke
    in: Grants

    Zoffix Znet provided this report on March 28, 2017 Perl 6 IO TPF Grant: Monthly Report This document is the March, 2017 progress report for Timing My delivery of the Action Plan was one week later than I originally expected to deliver it. The delay let me assess some of the big-picture consistency issues, which led to proposal to remove 15 methods from IO::Handle and to iron out naming and

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