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Perl, PHP, corporate – continued.

nobody@example.com (Lech) — 2010-03-09T22:44:00-06:00

... although PHP and Pyhon are rising, while Perl is on one level. One more thing – Savio compared PHP and other langs + PHP combbniations ( see here). What if we add Perl? See. Wow. Share and Enjoy: See also: Perl as good as java, python and PHP way above Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued ...

Perlbuzz news roundup for 2010-03-09

nobody@example.com (Andy Lester) — 2010-03-09T10:46:00-06:00

... ( effectiveperlprogramming.com) Call for papers for YAPC::NA 2010 in Columbus. Theme: Modern Perl 5 ( news.perlfoundation.org) Famous Perl One-Liners Explained part 5: Text conversion and substitution ( catonmat.net) The Italians like ack, too ( cattlegrid.info) Bash completion for perldoc ...

$foo TPF Interview

nobody@example.com (Karen) — 2010-03-09T08:51:24Z

Earlier this year Renée Bäcker from $foo magazine interviewed Richard Dice and me to find out our thoughts on TPF in 2009 and our hopes going forward. An English version [pdf] of the interview is available online.

YAPC::EU::2010 Newsletter #02 - Call for Anything

nobody@example.com (peppe) — 2010-03-08T04:52:00-06:00

Un saluto dalla seconda newsletter di YAPC::EU::2010!

SureSpell Teaching more dyslexia help

nobody@example.com — 2010-03-05T20:19:00-06:00

http://www.pjcj.net/presentations/yapc-eu-2005-surespell/slides/images/surespell1.png...

Grant Accepted: Fixing Perl5 Core Bugs

nobody@example.com (Karen) — 2010-03-05T06:31:25Z

I am pleased to announce that David Mitchell's grant application has been successful. I would like to thank all the community members who took time to provide feed-back on this proposal and Booking.com whose generous contribution to TPF has allowed us to fund this grant.

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Grant Update: Archive::Zip Fixes Complete

nobody@example.com (Ricardo Signes) — 2010-03-04T22:33:06Z

Alan Haggai's work on the Archive::Zip library is complete. Numerous onerous bugs have been corrected, and the library can now handle far more kinds of data. A developer release should reach the CPAN soon, hopefully to be followed in short order by a new complete release of the library.

Hague Grant Application: Numeric and Real Support

nobody@example.com (Karen) — 2010-03-04T08:40:05Z

We have received a Hague grant request, submitted by Solomon Foster.

Before the Board votes on this proposal we would like to get feedback and endorsements from the Perl community. Please leave feedback in the comments or send email with your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org.

Project Title:

Numeric and Real Support

Synopsis:

This grant aims to refactor Rakudo's current numeric classes to support the
Perl 6 specification's new Numeric and Real roles, in the process making it
easier to create new numeric classes.

Benefits to Perl 6 Development:

In late 2009, in response to users' and developers' experiences with Rakudo,
the Perl 6 specification was enhanced with the creation of the Numeric and
Real roles. This grant's purpose would be to implement those roles and
refactor Rakudo's core numeric type implementations to work with them,
including Int, Rat, Num, and Complex. Special care will be taken to simplify
adding new classes that fill the Numeric and Real roles, as there are more in
the specification that will need to be implemented at some point. In addition,
the relevant portions of the test suite would be revamped. Straightening this
all out before Rakudo * will present the newcomers to Perl 6 with a clean,
consistent numerical interface instead of the current obsolete hodgepodge.

Deliverables:

D1. Implement Numeric. [S32::Numeric: "Numeric"]
D2. Implement Real. [S32::Numeric: "Real"]
D3. Refactor Int, Rat, and Num to be Real. [S32::Numeric: "Int", "Rat", and
"Num", also S02::Bits and Pieces]
D4. Refactor Complex to be Numeric. [S32::Numeric: "Complex"]
D5. Refactor the trig functions to fit in this scheme. [S32::Numeric:
"Trigonometric functions"]
D6. Add Numeric and Real specific tests to the spectests.
D7. Enhance our current numeric tests to better work in the new system.

Project Details:

D1 and D2 require implementing a the Real and Numeric roles, and possibly
modifying the Spec a bit in the process. Probably the biggest issue here is
working out to what extent Real should implement default versions of its
methods.

D3, D4, and D5 involve refactoring the existing methods for these classes to
fit into the new role-based scheme. Special attention will be given to
facilitating the addition of new numeric types which fill these roles.

D6 would include simple tests -- do the classes belong to their appropriate
roles? -- as well as more complex tests -- can users readily create their own
Numeric class?

D7 would reorganize the existing numeric tests to better take advantage of the
new system, as well as forking role-based versions of those tests.

Project Schedule:

This is envisioned as a two-month project. The first three weeks would be spent
establishing the basic framework and getting the Numeric methods in place for
Int, Rat, Num, and Complex. The second three weeks would be spent working on
the Real methods for those classes. The last two weeks would be set aside for
trig.

I am able to begin work on this project at any time.

Report Schedule:

Blog posts every other week on a new Perl 6 programming blog on Wordpress,
also to be submitted to Perl Planet Six.

Public Repository:

All code, documentation and other relevant files that relate to Rakudo will be
checked into the Rakudo repository. All contributions to the specification and
specification tests will be checked into the Pugs repository.

Grant Deliverables ownership/copyright and License Information:

All work on produced as a result of this grant will be licensed under the
Artistic License Version 2.0. I already have signed the relevant CLA for The
Perl Foundation.

Bio:

After flirting briefly with Pugs back in its very early days, I started
regular experimentation with Perl 6 via Rakudo in late 2008. In mid-2009 I
started contributing, first to the spectests and then in August to Rakudo
itself. Since then I have been the third most active Rakudo committer,
including extensive work on Rat, Complex, and trig support.

I have an MS in mathematics and a BS with honors in mathematics and computer
science, both from the University of Michigan. I have twelve years' experience
as a professional C++ library developer.

Country of Residence:

United States

Nationality:

United States

Amount Requested:

$3000

Okay to publish proposal?:

Yes

Suggestions for Grant Manager:

Jonathan Worthington

YAPC::NA 2010 Request For Sponsorship

nobody@example.com (Josh McAdams) — 2010-03-04T05:18:53Z

From the YAPC::NA 2010 website: "YAPC::NA 2010 is actively searching for sponsorship, if you or your company would interested in being a sponsor please take a look at our Executive Summary or Sponsorship Prospectus."

Closing grant 'Porting pyYAML to Perl'

nobody@example.com (Alberto Simões) — 2010-03-03T21:34:42Z

This was the oldest grant running. Ingy dot net was working intermittently on it presenting some of the results that were promised in the proposal but not them all. TPF and Ingy agreed to close the grant with a half payment for the (half) work done.

Ingy wrote a report on the work done. It can be read at https://www.socialtext.net/yaml/index.cgi?requiem_for_a_grant

2010Q1 Grant Proposals: Results

nobody@example.com (Alberto Simões) — 2010-03-03T20:58:31Z

For this quarter TPF had 7 grant proposals, from which 5 were voted for rejection, one for acceptance, and the final one will be kept for new evaluation in the next round.

The five rejected grants are:
* Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines by Shlomi Fish
* Enhancing CPANHQ by Shlomi Fish
* perl core memory improvements by Jim Cromie
* Enhancing Perl 6 Pattern Matching by Morris M. Siegel
* CPAN Reviews by Alexandr Ciornii

The grant kept for new evaluation in the next round:
* Perl Compiler by Reini urban

And finally, congratulations to Ricardo Signes for his accepted grant:
* Improve Dist::Zilla by Ricardo Signes

These results took in consideration the proposal texts and the work relevance for the Perl community, the proposal authors curriculum and interaction with the Perl community, and the comments and reactions from the Perl community on this blog.