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The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2008.

In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).

You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!

Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by October 31.

As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria

• It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
• We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
• We can afford it (please respect the limits or your proposal should be rejected immediately).

To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals @ perl-foundation.org.

On November 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous round. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public.

Note that accepted but not funded proposals in the previous round do not need to be re-submitted.

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2008.

In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).

You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!

Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by October 31.

As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria

• It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
• We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
• We can afford it (please respect the limits or your proposal should be rejected immediately).

To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals @ perl-foundation.org.

On November 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous round. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public.

Note that accepted but not funded proposals in the previous round do not need to be re-submitted.

ambs writes "YAPC::EU::2008 in Copenhagen ended today. During the conference a lot of people said something like: Perl 5.10 is the best Perl release ever!. I think that who repeated this most was Damian Conway. Given his talks content I can understand why. But it was the only one.

Now, what I can't understand is why http://ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/src/README.html still says that perl 5.10.0 is a testing release, 8 months old.

I discussed this previously in perl 5 porters mailing list, but some months elapsed and no news. It is really important to re-tag that distribution with a stable tag, if it is really the best Perl release ever. Another option is to make 5.10.1 available. I know Rafael has some milestones for 5.10.1. But it might be more important for the Perl community to have 5.10.1 wide spread than to wait for really new cool features.

Why? For instance, because some Linux distributions will not include perl 5.10.x while it is tagged with testing. Also, because we all know that changes from 5.6 to 5.8 were basically from internals (Unicode, especially). But the changes from 5.8 to 5.10 are significally a breath of fresh air. We should make 5.10 the best Perl release ever for all users, and not just those geeks that want to use the new features.

"

YAPC::EU::2008 in Copenhagen ended today. During the conference a lot of people said something like: Perl 5.10 is the best Perl release ever!. I think that who repeated this most was Damian Conway. Given his talks content I can understand why. But it wasn't the only one.

Now, what I can't understand is why http://ftp.cpan.org/src/README.html still says that perl 5.10.0 is a testing release, 8 months old.

I discussed this previously in perl 5 porters mailing list, but some months elapsed and no news. It is really important to re-tag that distribution with a stable tag, if it is really the best Perl release ever. Another option is to make 5.10.1 available. I know Rafael has some milestones for 5.10.1. But it might be more important for the Perl community to have 5.10.1 wide spread than to wait for really new cool features.

Why? For instance, because some Linux distributions will not include perl 5.10.x while it is tagged with testing. Also, because we all know that changes from 5.6 to 5.8 were basically from internals (Unicode, especially). But the changes from 5.8 to 5.10 are significally a breath of fresh air. We should make 5.10 the best Perl release ever for all users, and not just those geeks that want to use the new features.

The Perl Foundation grants committee received 15 proposals during the third call for grant proposals for 2008. These proposals are published for public discussion. You are invited to comment each proposal about its relevance and objectives.

During the month of July we received the following grant proposals:

• Squatting On Everything
• Rufus
• The Perl Survey
• Barcode support in Act
• Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo
• Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince
• Extending BSDPAN
• Improve POE::Component::IRC
• Module Installation Configuration Wizard
• CPAN Stability Project
• Single-file GUI-enabled executable
• Hotel Perl
• Bavl
• Libperl++

Please take some time on reading the proposals carefully and give some feedback on the relevance of the proposals. This discussion period will end about August 10. Starting that date, the GC will begin the voting process. Please comment on each specific grant post or, if you want to give a broad opinion and comparison on the proposed grants, please comment this post. Thanks!

NOTE The committee received one last proposal, but was asked not to make it public.

The Perl Foundation grants committee received 15 proposals during the third call for grant proposals for 2008. These proposals are published for public discussion. You are invited to comment each proposal about its relevance and objectives.

During the month of July we received the following grant proposals:

• Squatting On Everything
• Rufus
• The Perl Survey
• Barcode support in Act
• Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo
• Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince
• Extending BSDPAN
• Improve POE::Component::IRC
• Module Installation Configuration Wizard
• CPAN Stability Project
• Single-file GUI-enabled executable
• Hotel Perl
• Bavl
• Libperl++

Please take some time on reading the proposals carefully and give some feedback on the relevance of the proposals. This discussion period will end about August 10. Starting that date, the GC will begin the voting process. Please comment on each specific grant post or, if you want to give a broad opinion and comparison on the proposed grants, please comment this post. Thanks!

NOTE The committee received one last proposal, but was asked not to make it public.

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2008.

In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).

You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!

Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by July 31.

As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria

• It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
• We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
• We can afford it.

To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals @ perl-foundation.org.

On August 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous round. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public.

Note that accepted but not funded proposals in the previous round do not need to be re-submitted.

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2008.

In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).

You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!

Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by July 31.

As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria

• It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
• We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
• We can afford it.

To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals @ perl-foundation.org.

On August 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous round. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public.

Note that accepted but not funded proposals in the previous round do not need to be re-submitted.

On TPF webblog (check links bellow) are a set of posts with proposals received by the Perl Foundation grants committee during the second call for grant proposals for 2008. Although not usual, the rules of the TPF GC are changing and we hope to make this a rule. Proposals are accepted during one month and after that period, they are posted for public discussion on the Internet. This is important to make GC more aware of the community interest on the project, and to help opening the grants attribution process.

During the month of April we received the following grant proposals:

• Perl 6 Tables
• Solidifying and Extending the Blog Normalize project
• Add Perl support to NetBeans
• Perl on a Stick
• SMOP - Simple Meta Object Programming
• Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module
• CatalystX::Installer Application
• Perl Survey
  
• Revision Control for all CPAN
• Improve POE::Component::IRC
• DBEditor
• Extending BSDPAN

Please take some time on reading the proposals carefully and give some feedback on the relevance of the proposals.

On TPF webblog (check links bellow) are a set of posts with proposals received by the Perl Foundation grants committee during the second call for grant proposals for 2008. Although not usual, the rules of the TPF GC are changing and we hope to make this a rule. Proposals are accepted during one month and after that period, they are posted for public discussion on the Internet. This is important to make GC more aware of the community interest on the project, and to help opening the grants attribution process.

During the month of April we received the following grant proposals:

• Perl 6 Tables
• Solidifying and Extending the Blog Normalize project
• Add Perl support to NetBeans
• Perl on a Stick
• SMOP - Simple Meta Object Programming
• Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module
• CatalystX::Installer Application
• Perl Survey
• Revision Control for all CPAN
• Improve POE::Component::IRC
• DBEditor
• Extending BSDPAN

Please take some time on reading the proposals carefully and give some feedback on the relevance of the proposals.

Archive::Any is a small and nice module by Clint Moore to manage ZIP and TGZ files. It also includes some kind of plugin system to be able to open other archive types as well.

Meanwhile, Clint does not release any new version since November 2006, and there is a critical bug reported since January 2007. A simple bug on a test that makes CPAN to fail installing Archive::Any if Test::POD::Coverage is not installed.

Given this, I am willing to fix this module and release it. But for that, I would like first to ask if anybody knows Clint, so I can contact him first.

ambs writes "Archive::Any is a small and nice module by Clint Moore to manage ZIP and TGZ files. It also includes some kind of plugin system to be able to open other archive types as well.

Meanwhile, Clint does not release any new version since November 2006, and there is a critical bug reported since January 2007. A simple bug on a test that makes CPAN to fail installing Archive::Any if Test::POD::Coverage is not installed.

Given this, I am willing to fix this module and release it. But for that, I would like first to ask if anybody knows Clint, so I can contact him first.

"

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 2008.

In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).

You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!

Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by April 30.

As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria:

• It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
• We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
• We can afford it.

To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org.

On May 1st submitters will be contacted individually regarding whether they will let their proposal details be available for public discussion, as public views of grants proposals is likely to become part of the standard in the future.

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 2008.

In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).

You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!

Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by April 30.

As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria:

• It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
• We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
• We can afford it.

To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org.

On May 1st submitters will be contacted individually regarding whether they will let their proposal details be available for public discussion, as public views of grants proposals is likely to become part of the standard in the future.

The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2008.

In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).

You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!

Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by January 31.

As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria:

• It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
• We have reason to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
• We can afford it.

To submit a proposal, see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal, and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org before January 31.