I am pleased to announce our project in Outreachy. Currently we are looking for an intern. Project registration: Improve the code quality of the Perl backend of Open Food Facts Project Description Improve the code quality of the Perl backend of Open Food Facts Open Food Facts is a Wikipedia for food products: a …

Title Revising Perl's open and perlopentut manual pages for clarity and completeness Synopsis The manual page for one of Perl's most central functions -- open -- has problems. While nobody doubts the page's technical accuracy, head Perl maintainer Sawyer X nonetheless holds it up as an example of documentation in sore …

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 …

In this issue: Conference registration is live! - http://bit.ly/tpcihtickets Venue information - http://bit.ly/tpcihhotel Call for presentations! - https://www.papercall.io/tpcihcfp Call for master-class/tutorial teachers open! - admin@perlconference.us Volunteer-Organizer positions open Call for sponsors! - …

Jonathan writes: This is a status update on my Perl 6 Performance and Reliability grant. First of all, I'd like to explain why there's been so little progress in the latter part of the year. In August, the process that led to the Raku rename started. This was designated as a language issue, and as the responsible …

Approximately 58 tickets were reviewed, and 3 patches were applied 1[Hours] [Activity] 2 0.27 sec #127 research and comment 3 0.12 #14409 review and close 4 0.77 #17071 re-check old suggested commit and make PR #17313 5 1.95 #17145 testing and close 6 0.81 #17154 research and comment 7 #17154 research and comment 8 …

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 …

UV Name: Paul Evans Amount Requested: USD 3,698 (Converted at time of submission from GBP) Synopsis Implement a Perl binding for libuv, wrapping as many of the features and types as is practical and useful for Perl 5. Benefits to the Perl Community The libuv library provides a multi-platform event system, and is the …

In this issue: * About The Perl Conference in Houston * Volunteer-Organizer positions open * Call for sponsors * Call for talk ideas * Contact us About #TPCiH In 2020 we’ll be in Houston, Texas. The Perl Conference in Houston will use hashtag #TPCiH, which follows with previous years taking the first letter of the name …

Future::AsyncAwait Final Report Here is the final report by Paul Evans on his Future::AsyncAwait Grant: This project set out to improve the Future::AsyncAwait module, fixing a number of known bugs and adding missing features. It also aimed to improve documentation and user-awareness of the new abilities that the module …