Speaking at FOSDEM? Here’s what you need to know Thank you to all speakers who have put themselves forward to speak at this year’s FOSDEM. As it’s a virtual event, all talks need to be pre-recorded by the speakers. This is the first time FOSDEM has operated in this way so please be aware that there may be some bumps …

The Perl Foundation is calling for papers for our virtual devroom taking place at FOSDEM on Saturday 6th February 2021. A brief outline of your talk must be submitted by 23 December. The finished talk is not required until January (see below deadlines). Talk subjects The main topic of the room will be …

Final Board Findings Regarding 2019 SOC Incident Shortly after the conclusion of The Perl Conference (TPC) in Pittsburgh, 2019, The Perl Foundation (TPF) received a report alleging a Standards of Conduct (SOC) violation in a video that was posted to TPF’s YouTube account. A complaint regarding a video posted after the …

TPF Board members meet every month and here are the minutes from the July 2020 meeting. Attendees Stuart J Mackintosh Dan Wright Dave Rolsky Curtis "Ovid" Poe Pete Krawczyk Ricardo Signes Makoto Nozaki Nic Evans (admin) Samantha McVey (For the TPRC CAT discussion) TPRC CAT debrief Structure CAT (Community …

I would like to share with you the development of our initiative which has the aim of maintaining healthy and welcoming Perl and Raku communities. The Perl Foundation is supporting the creation of a Community Affairs Team known as the CAT (we like our TLAs). This initiative has developed through many conversations with …

We're excited to announce the Perl and Raku stand at FOSDEM 2020 conference in Brussels on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February. This is a great opportunity to share Perl and Raku with one of the largest meeting of developers and technologists. It also brings us together as a community and helps us engage with …

As I write this I have served my first 100 days as president of TPF. There’s another 631 days to go in this two-year term. This is a role that I relish, and in these two years I want to ensure we focus on initiatives that can be delivered and sustained. And if I am invited to continue my term after two years, and as …

Late this evening we flipped the switch and The Perl Foundation News website (http://news.perlfoundation.org) no longer lives at its long time, MoveableType-based home, and is now a brand new system based on Rapi::Blog, which is a relatively new blogging platform, based on RapidApp, written in Perl, open-source and …

Our nominee to join The Perl Foundation’s Board of Directors as Treasurer is Pete Krawczyk. Prior to making a final decision, our standard policy includes a public comment period. The community is invited to post public feedback or ask questions of Pete on this blog post. We will wait a minimum of two weeks prior to …

Will Braswell continues his unrestricted production of R(estricted)-Perl documentation: "May was yet another busy month for Learning RPerl, section 2.3.6 was huge so I split out all the command-line arguments into a new appendix B. We now have documentation for all of RPerl's 15 phases of operation, 27 …