Names: Ilya Belikin, Carl Mäsak, Stephen Weeks Email: Ilya Belikin ([hidden email]), Carl Mäsak ([hidden email]), Stephen Weeks ([hidden email]) Amount Requested: $3000. Ilya: 1320$, for 12h/week. Carl: 1100$, for 10h/week. Stephen: 550$, for 5h/week. Synopsis Two years ago, Juerd proposed the Web.pm module for Perl 6. …
Read More"Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/ has submitted a request for an "Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for his proposal "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancement". A part of the Hague grant process is that submitted …
Read MoreThe Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the first "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Patrick Michaud, the head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort on top of the Parrot VM. Conceptually it is an extension of Patrick's earlier …
Read MoreThe Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the second "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Jerry Gay, core Parrot hacker and 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation hacker. The details of Jerry's grant proposal are below. The work will be to define the …
Read MoreApologies for the long delay in this report, I've had some ongoing health problems over the summer. Allison wrote this report to bring us up-to-date, and then we'll continue with the two-monthly schedule. Parrot releases continue on their monthly schedule. The 0.6.0 release in March reflected major improvements to both …
Read MoreI am pleased to announce that Shlomi Fish has completed his XML::RSS cleanup grant. In his own words, Shlomi has summarised the work he's done and offers his thanks to those who helped him transform XML::RSS into a high quality tool for the community: This is a summary of a Perl Foundation XML::RSS grant, I've been …
Read MoreThe Perl Foundation is pleased to announce two new grant awards. The first is adding new policies to Perl::Critic. The second is improving the Smolder project. Note that the second project involves the TAP::Parser module (which was known as TAPx::Parser at the time the grant application was submitted). This was a …
Read MoreFirst off, let's get the bad news out of the way. Here's Adam's final report on the PPI refactoring editor: It is with some sadness I think I will have to finally draw a line under this effort and consider it over. Without the appearance of a pure-Perl cross-platform (most likely Wx) programmer's text editor on the …
Read MoreHere's Christopher Laco's "Mango" grant application. NAME: Christopher H Laco EMAIL: claco@chrislaco.com PROJECT: Mango AMOUNT: $1500 DURATION: 2-3 Months, starting immediately. SYNOPSIS: Mango is a Web 2.0 Ecommerce Solution built using the Handel and Catalyst frameworks. PREFACE: Since graduating college, …
Read MoreHere's Brian Ingerson's "Port PyYAML to Perl" grant application. Name: Ingy döt Net Email: ingy@ttul.org Project Title: Port PyYAML to Perl Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis: > PyYAML(1) is a pure Python implementation of the YAML 1.1 specification(2). It is considered the highest quality YAML …
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