Grant Applications Results of Voting May 24
Tue, 04-Jun-2024 by
Saif Ahmed
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An unusually busy period for the grants Committee, we have had 4 grants to discuss this round, including two critical Raku Grants, one Dancer2 project, and one on an LLM-based code quality assist. The Grants Committee is lacking in Raku representation and we have had to recruit a temporary member to help us.
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### RakuAST
This project on the syntax tree that underpins the new routines and commands and their parameters are handled during parsing, syntax checking and interpretting.
**Results:** Success.
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### Raku Ecosystem
This project was resubmitted with a new grant amount to allow to fall within the terms of Grants Applications. This complex tool was difficult to understand for the committee so we had additional insights derived from Raku board members.
**Results:** Success.
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### Dancer2 Documentation
Jason Crome, a past Grants Committee member and secretary, proposed this project. Good, upto date documentation is always critical, in any ecosystem, and Dancer2 is a particularly important one for Perl. The grant amount requested was not large, making this an easy application to approve.
**Results:** Success.
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### Perl GPT
A modern language without some involvement with AI is unheard of and Perl is no exception. PerlGPT is an interesting project aiming to improve code quality using an LLM. This project had been submitted previously, and narrowly failed to sufficently convince the grants committee. It was deemed worthy of a revisit and a small amount of preliminary work on the project was approved, to allow an opportunity for the grants comittee to get more clarity on the perceived merit of the project.
**Results**: Unsuccessful
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Comments (1)
Would it be possible for each section of this post to include a link to the original grant proposal blog post?
Also, it would be great to get an explanation of the graphs.
