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  • We want you to say that “Perl is Dead” even though it is “Very Much Alive” Sun, 01-Nov-2020 by mdk

    In the last few years, as there has been a decline in the uptake of Perl for new projects, and as we have seen the neutral evolution of a language and turn over of developers there has been a long line of people wanting to declare the demise of Perl. They have of course either misunderstood or exaggerated the situation.

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  • Marketing Strategy for the Next Two Years Tue, 01-Sep-2020 by mdk

    At the August monthly director’s meeting for the Perl Foundation, the marketing team presented a strategy for the next two years. This strategy is a broad look at where the team believes we should focus as the Foundation, the Foundation and community brands/products, move forwards. The strategy can be read, in its current form, in the attached document: The Next Two Years.pdf. It is a living document, by which we

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  • TPF Survey: Marketing and Branding Thu, 13-Aug-2020 by mdk
    in: Marketing

    The Perl Foundation is developing branding and marketing strategies for itself and the software projects and communities it serves. Completing this short survey will give valuable feedback to the marketing committee.

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  • Call for Volunteers Sun, 10-Dec-2017 by mdk

    Help needed for the 2018 TPC::NA The Perl Conference in America, formerly YAPC::NA, has put forward a formal call for volunteers to help out with next year's event. Perl has likely helped you, we could even say it has been helping you to pay your bills? This may be your chance to give back to the community that isn't writing code. TPC::NA 2018 is looking for volunteers to organize the

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  • Booking.com Sponsors the P5CMF Mon, 27-Nov-2017 by mdk

    A Proud History The long time supporters of the Perl community, world-class business ,and a leading employer of Perl programmers worldwide, has added a generous sponsorship to the Core Maintenance Fund. It is a great privilege to announce that they have added one hundred thousand dollars to the initiative. have been supporters of the fund since its inception and have long championed the important work that this brings to

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  • Community Heroes: Liz and Wendy Fri, 18-Sep-2015 by mdk

    Raising Hopes, Raising Joy and Raising Money When you travel to Perl conferences, or talk on Perl channels, you will at some point hear about Liz and Wendy. Many of you reading this will already be familiar with the both of them and perhaps, like me, you will already have a deep respect for them as well. Liz and Wendy have been cornerstones of the Netherlands Perl community and the

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  • Oetiker + Partner Donate 5,000 Dollars to Perl 6 Development Thu, 20-Aug-2015 by mdk

    "Oetiker+Partner":http://www.oetiker.ch have donated 5,000 Swiss Francs to the Perl 6 grant fund. 2015 is turning into a signature year for the development and advancement of Perl 6. Earlier in the year Larry Wall announced that the Perl 6 team were working towards the 'official' Perl 6 Development Release and that they intended to have this ready by Christmas 2015. An important part of this is the grant for Jonathan Worthington

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  • Booking.com Donate $60,000 to Perl 5 Thu, 13-Aug-2015 by mdk

    "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com donates $60,000 dollars to The Perl Foundation for continued support of the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. It is our pleasure to announce that "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com has donated a further sum of $60,000 to the Perl Foundation to aid with further development of the Perl 5 programming language. This donation shows continued support to the Core Maintenance Fund that Booking.com has been a consistent advocate of for many years. Darren

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  • Devel::Cover Grant Report (August) Tue, 03-Sep-2013 by mdk

    In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering August 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 1.07 and 1.08. Version 1.07 was primarily concerned with getting Devel::Cover to work with recent Perl releases: 5.18.1, 5.19.1, 5.19.2 and 5.19.3. The main problem was with 5.18.1 which is a stable, maintenance release of Perl and which was causing

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  • Devel::Cover Grant Report (August) Tue, 03-Sep-2013 by mdk

    In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering August 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 1.07 and 1.08. Version 1.07 was primarily concerned with getting Devel::Cover to work with recent Perl releases: 5.18.1, 5.19.1, 5.19.2 and 5.19.3. The main problem was with 5.18.1 which is a stable, maintenance release of Perl and which was causing

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  • Devel::Cover Grant Report (July) Tue, 03-Sep-2013 by mdk

    In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering July 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover versions 1.05 and 1.06. The releases contain a number of patches and pull requests along with various little cleanups and other small fixes. The rest of the work this month was spent on p5cover. This is the project to get test

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  • Devel::Cover Grant Report (June) Tue, 03-Sep-2013 by mdk

    In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering June 2013. This month I released Devel::Cover 1.04. The release contains a number of fixes from last month, along with performance improvements. The performance improvements are part of work package I started at the end of May and which continued into the beginning of June. They are primarily

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  • TPF Devel::Cover grant report May 2013 Mon, 24-Jun-2013 by mdk

    In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering May 2013. In May Perl 5.18.0 was released. 5.18.0 introduced a new padrange operator and I had failed to note the full implications for Devel::Cover. So, a couple of days after 5.18.0 was released I released Devel::Cover 1.03 which works correctly with the new operator, and contains a

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  • The First Twenty-Five Years Tue, 18-Dec-2012 by mdk

    Introduction Opening Remarks Being asked to write a piece celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary, in essence a Silver Celebration, since the first release of the Perl Programming language was both a joy and a terror. Where would I start, what would I include, what approach should I take? It is a significant prospect as the sheer depth of history can only be matched by the breadth of influence that Perl has

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  • Google Code-In Sun, 04-Nov-2012 by mdk

    Once again we will be attempting to participate in the ""Google Code-In":http://":http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012

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  • Sponsoring MetaCPAN Thu, 25-Oct-2012 by mdk

    It isn't often enough that I get to speak about the way that the Perl Foundation spends the money that is so generously donated to it. Often they are the subjects of the annual reports from Karen and Dan and are presented at the yearly Yet Another Perl Conferences. Most of these funds are used as part of our excellent programmes to improve Perl via direct sponsorship of people such

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  • Perl can help in a PhD Survey Tue, 09-Oct-2012 by mdk

    The Perl Foundation is pleased to be working with and promoting Kevin Carillo's research into newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities. You also can help by taking the time to "fill out this survey":https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=89971&lang=en. Kevin is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. His research topic is about the influence of newcomer experience on contributor behaviour and performance

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  • Devel::Cover Grant Report for August Thu, 13-Sep-2012 by mdk

    Paul Johnson writes: In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering August 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.93. The bulk of this report is taken from my weekly reports, so if you have read them there is little new here. One of the nice things about having this grant and being able to spend more

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  • Devel::Cover Grant Report for July Thu, 09-Aug-2012 by mdk

    In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering July 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.90, 0.91 and 0.92. I wasn't able to spend as much time working on Devel::Cover this month as I had hoped to. The time I did spend was primarily on working through RT and github tickets, resolving those I could and

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  • Devel::Cover Grant Report for June Fri, 20-Jul-2012 by mdk

    by Paul Johnson In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering June 2012. This month I released Devel::Cover 0.88 and 0.89. I looked into "https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=113464":https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=113464 which is a perl bug, but is related to warnings when running Devel::Cover. I supplied a core patch to quieten the warnings which has been applied, but I also changed Devel::Cover

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  • Paul Johnson, Devel::Cover Grant Report for May 2012 Fri, 15-Jun-2012 by mdk

    In accordance with the terms of my grant from TPF this is the monthly report for my work on improving Devel::Cover covering May 2012. This report is essentially the same as my report for the first week, but that will not be the usual case. If you read that report you can safely skip this one. You may recall that recently I submitted a grant proposal to The Perl Foundation

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  • craigslist Charitable Fund Donates $100,000 to the Perl Foundation Tue, 24-Jan-2012 by mdk
    in: Marketing

    The Perl Foundation is proud to announce that the craigslist Charitable Fund is supporting the Perl community with a generous donation of $100,000 toward Perl5 maintenance and for general use by the Perl Foundation. According to craigslist CEO and former Perl Hacker Jim Buckmaster, "craigslist has gloried in and relied upon Perl for most of its software development for more than a decade. craigslist Charitable Fund is honored to recognize

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  • Booking.com Sponsors 
€100,000 to Perl 5 Development Sun, 01-Jan-2012 by mdk

    Booking.com donates again to The Perl Foundation, gives €100,000 to Perl 5 development Booking.com have announced that they have donated a new grant of €100,000 to the Perl Foundation to aid with further development of the Perl 5 programming language. The grant follows Booking.com's $50,000 grant to TPF that was just recently successfully concluded, having contributed to a significant improvement in quality of the Perl 5 core. Booking.com is the

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  • Perlverse: Perl Weekly and Gabor Szabo Tue, 27-Dec-2011 by mdk
    in: Marketing

    In August of 2011 Gabor Szabo started an ambitious project intended to bring a snapshot of the Perl World to the wider community. That project was called "Perl Weekly":http://perlweekly.com/. Gabor had seen an issue in the community, in order to follow the latest news, learn about the latest events or keep up-to-date with important elements of the community you were required to sift through a large number of blogs, news

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  • Holiday Greetings Fri, 23-Dec-2011 by mdk
    in: Marketing

    This year the Perl Foundation have been proud to send out a festive card to celebrate the, broadly Western, holiday season. The list of recipients was garnered from those who have supported the Foundation in the past year in many different ways, excluding those who have selected not to be contacted further. This method however was not wholly effective and I know that we missed a whole bunch of people

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  • Stick it to them...[1] Sun, 18-Dec-2011 by mdk
    in: Marketing

    For some time there has been a square Perl Foundation Onion sticker doing the rounds at conferences and events and we are finally at the point where there are very few of them left. So I thought it was about time we had some new stickers for the organisation so that we can stick them on people and things at the many Perl and non-Perl related events. This is the

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  • Liquid Web Donate to P5 CMF Thu, 22-Sep-2011 by mdk

    Liquid Web are the latest company to donate the significant sum of $10,000 to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund, Liquid Web wish to "assist in the continued development and maintenance of the dynamic and powerful Perl programming language". "Liquid Web, Inc.":http://www.LiquidWeb.com are a rapidly growing managed Web Hosting company, with locations in Michigan and Arizona with a clear commitment to innovation and development. Liquid Web has developed much of

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  • Perlverse: $foo and Renée Bäcker Sat, 03-Sep-2011 by mdk
    in: Marketing

    Series Introduction This is a series of articles on various elements of the Perl community that I like to refer to as the 'Perlverse'. The series is not in a particular order and election to it is entirely subjective and mostly based around my knowledge of the person or item. They are intended to highlight the rich variety of people, companies, projects and events that happen in the Perl world

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  • GSoC - Final Wrap Fri, 02-Sep-2011 by mdk
    in: GSoCMarketing

    This year's Google Summer of Code came to an official close on Monday 29th September 2011. Let me briefly remind you of our students and mentors: André Walker Rework Catalyst component setup code Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim Brian Neil Fraser Making the Perl Core UTF-8 clean Mentored by Florian Ragwitz and Zefram Carlos Ivan Sosa Removing the upgrading necessity of the Dancer script with

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  • Net-A-Porter Champions Web Development Wed, 31-Aug-2011 by mdk

    As announced by Karen Pauley at this year's YAPC::EU in Riga, Latvia, "NET-A-PORTER.COM":http://www.net-a-porter.com, the world's premier online luxury fashion retailer, will donate $10,000 to the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. "NET-A-PORTER":http://www.net-a-porter.com is committed to innovations in web technology and has created a bespoke e-Commerce platform to offer its customers a fast, responsive and interactive user experience. It uses Perl for a number of its programs and makes this donation as

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  • LOVEFiLM: Helping support the community Tue, 30-Aug-2011 by mdk
    in: Marketing

    It has been recently announced that "LOVEFiLM":http://www.lovefilm.com/, Europe's largest subscription service, are supporting the Perl community by assisting with the maintenance of regular programs such as memberships and grants. The people at "LOVEFiLM":http://www.lovefilm.com/ have seen a rapid expansion of both their service and product over the past seven years and they are all proud of its system built upon Perl. Mike Blakemore, Chief Technology Officer at "LOVEFiLM":http://www.lovefilm.com/ states: "Perl underpins

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  • GSoC: Midterm Evaluations Wed, 27-Jul-2011 by mdk

    This year we have six students undertaking projects for the Google Summer of Code those of you who have been following The Perl Foundations 2011 students will know that two weeks ago there was an evaluation period known as the Midterm. This period is when the students, and their mentors, submit reports on the situation so far, this includes making an analysis of the work completed and the general abilities

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  • cPanel Sponsor P5CMF Tue, 19-Jul-2011 by mdk

    It is my pleasure to announce that the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund has attracted sponsorship from cPanel. cPanel approached Karen Pauley, president of The Perl Foundation, during the recent YAPC::NA conference in Asheville and announced their intent to sponsor this fund. Karen was both pleased and delighted at the generosity of cPanel who have decided to sponsor $10,000. cPanel has been developed in Perl and they have been sponsoring

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  • Booking.com Sponsor P5CMF Tue, 19-Jul-2011 by mdk

    It is my pleasure to announce that Booking.com approached Karen Pauley, president of The Perl Foundation, during the recent YAPC::NA conference in Asheville and announced their intent to sponsor the Core Maintenance Fund. Karen was both pleased and delighted at the generosity of Booking.com who have decided to sponsor $10,000. Booking.com have sponsored Perl events and initiatives for many years and have also been host to Perl events at their

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  • Perl 5.14 Wed, 11-May-2011 by mdk

    A new version of Perl, 5.14, was officially released on 14th May following the successful test period, including the testing of release candidates. This is the first release of Perl 5 using the new annual schedule. There are a number of enhancements and alterations in this version, a full list of changes can be found at

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