TPF Programs in 2010
Sat, 01-Jan-2011 by
Dan Wright
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Below is an overview of the programs that were financially supported by The Perl Foundation in 2010. Programs are roughly broken up into 3 categories: Events, Marketing, and Development.
<big>**Perl events**</big>
The Perl Foundation supported four conferences in 2010. Those conferences were: The North American Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC::NA), Frozen Perl, The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, and The Perl Oasis. Each event is expected to be self-sustaining through program fees and donations. However, TPF did provide support to each event in the form of free services. Event organizers were able to pick and choose which services they needed:
* Use of the donate.perlfoundation.org payment gateway for the various events to receive registration fees and sponsorship contributions. Each event received 100% of the amount contributed, any transaction fees were covered by TPF. In the course of a year this works out to over $2,500 in event sponsorship.
* Event liability insurance, which is often required by event venues. The liability policy costs TPF over $1,000 to maintain per year.
* Use of TPF as an established legal entity when required to enter into contracts with event venues and contractors. This freed event organizers from needing to spend time and expenses related to establishing their own organizations for each event.
* Handling all disbursements to venues, caterers, contractors, speakers, etc.. All postage, wire transaction fees, and accounting expenses were covered by TPF, which cost over $500 in 2010.
In 2010, The Perl Foundation provided a $500 sponsorship of the Enlightened Perl Organization's "Send-a-newbie" program for YAPC::EU. TPF also provided a $500 sponsorship for YAPC::NA's "VIP party", an event targeted at first-time YAPC attendees.
<big>**Perl marketing**</big>
In 2010, The Perl Foundation provided $1,000 in free printed marketing materials distributed by volunteers staffing Perl advocacy booths at various non-Perl events through the year.
TPF also paid $1,600 to have professional content continuously written for the perl.com web site through the year.
In 2010, TPF spent $1,800 for trademark applications in Canada, Europe, and Japan. The Perl Foundation now holds trademarks on Perl in both the United States and Canada.
<big>**Perl development**</big>
The Perl Foundation maintained their associate membership with The Unicode Consortium in 2010 at an expense of $1,500. This membership enhances Perl developers' abilities to maintain support of Unicode within Perl. It also gives Perl a voice in contributing to the ongoing development of the Unicode Standard.
Through a development grant made possible by Ian Hague in 2008, TPF paid over $14,000 in grants for the further development of Perl 6 in 2010. At the end of this year, there is $27,000 remaining unallocated in the Perl 6 development portion of the Hague grant. Grants completed this year included:
* Jonathan Worthington's "Rakudo Signature Improvements"
* Solomon Foster's "Numeric and Real Support"
* Travel support for Patrick Michaud to speak about Rakudo and recruit volunteers at conferences.
TPF was awarded a $50,000 grant from Booking.com for "further development and
maintenance of the Perl programming language". TPF has used $25,800 of those funds in the form of monthly payments to David Mitchell for his grant "Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs." This grant will be continued into 2011.
The grants committee paid over $6,000 in grants from community contributions. The following grants were completed in 2010:
* Ricardo Signes' "Archive::Zip bugs" and "Improve Dist::Zilla's Tests, Documentation, and Structure"
* Vadim Konovalov's "Perl Cross-Compilation for WinCE and Linux" and "Tcl/Tk Access in Rakudo"
* Curtis Jewell's "Corporate, Embedded, and Multi-user Perl on Windows"
* Gerard Goossen's "Changing the Perl 5 optree build process into a Abstract Syntax Tree generation and a code generation step"
* Leon Timmermans' "Embeding Perl into C++ Applications"
* Sebastian Riedel's "The Mojo Documentation Project"
* Kieren Diment's "The Perl Survey"
* José Castro and Bruno Martins' "Perlbal documentation"
In 2010, The Perl Foundation in cooperation with The Parrot Foundation sponsored 10 projects in The Google Summer of Code. TPF provided over $1,600 in support for this program, which will eventually be recovered back from Google.
<big>**Looking ahead to 2011**</big>
In 2011, we expect our areas of support to remain roughly the same. We remain committed to supporting Perl events, marketing, and development.
<big>**How you can help**</big>
Improved fundraising is a requirement to maintain the strong support of Perl provided by The Perl Foundation in 2011. If you find value in the work that is being support by TPF, please consider making a donation. To contribute, please visit "https://donate.perlfoundation.org":https://donate.perlfoundation.org
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Comments (4)
Thanks, this is just the sort of information that is nice to see, to understand Where The Money Goes!
As currently written, this post credits me with a grant for Archive::Zip improvement. That grant was actually paid to Alan Haggai, who did all the hard work. I was his grant manager. I mostly pushed paper, and not much of it.
I am very happy to see this information publicized.
Thank you.
Hi Dan,
I just want to echo what Ricardo said. This is a very useful post. I've read about all of the individual items on the TPF blog and elsewhere, but having them summed up at the end of the year is very, very valuable in many ways.
Best regards,
Steffen
Calling Vadim's grants "completed" seems a bit inappropriate in light of http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/03/grants_failure_tcltk_access_in.html - "closed" would be more accurate I think.
