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2013Q3 Grant Proposals 17 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
For this quarter the Grants Committee just received one proposal, by Peter Rabbitson, for "Advanced environment for CI of Perl projects". Unfortunately the Grants Committee could not accept this propo...
Improving Perl 5 Grant Extended 6 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
I am pleased to announce that Dr Nicholas Clark's Improving Perl 5 grant has been extended by another 400 hours. I would like to thank everyone who commented on his request for an extension for their...
Improving Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 20 31 Jul 2013 | 02:53 pm
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the June period. The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from (Andrew S. Tanenbaum). I guess the sa...
Improving Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 19 30 Jul 2013 | 03:01 pm
Nicholas Clark writes: As per my grant conditions, here is a report for the May period. This month I simplified part of the implementation of pack and unpack, removing about 130 lines of code, and r...
Hague Grant Application 24 Jul 2013 | 12:35 pm
We have received the following Hague Grant application from diakopter. Before we vote on this proposal we would like to have a period of community consultation for 10 days. Please leave feedback in t...
Next Release of Pinto With Key Features - Grant Report #1 22 Jul 2013 | 09:59 pm
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer reported: This past May, The Perl Foundation awarded a grant to fund development of a couple features in Pinto. Pinto is a robust tool for curating a private repository of CPA...
Grant Extension Request - Improving Perl 5 16 Jul 2013 | 10:11 am
Dr. Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Improving Perl 5 grant. This grant started in September 2011 and has been running successfully since then. The requested extension woul...
2013Q3 Call for Grant Proposals 1 Jul 2013 | 04:02 pm
As you might have noticed, TPF has been grating money for some big tasks, like funding Nicholas Clark or Dave Mitchel work on Perl 5. Nevertheless, TPF has a Grants Committee with its own budget, to g...
Tony Cook's Grant is Accepted 1 Jul 2013 | 10:20 am
I am pleased to announce that The Perl Foundation (TPF) has accepted Tony Cook's grant application for Maintaining Perl 5. As always the application was considered after a public consultation and feed...
TPF Devel::Cover grant report May 2013 24 Jun 2013 | 01:54 pm
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 padrang...
