craigslist Fund Donates $100,000 to Perl5

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Jan 242012
 

The Perl Foundation today announced that they have received a donation of $100,000 toward Perl5 maintenance and for general use by the Perl Foundation from the craigslist Charitable Fund.

According to craigslist CEO and former Perl Hacker Jim Buckmaster, “craigslist has gloried in and relied upon Perl for most of its software development for more than a decade. craigslist Charitable Fund is honored to recognize the wizardry and generosity of the Perl community, help ensure the ongoing maintenance of Perl5, and contribute to the future evolution of Perl.” He added, “It was unclear at first how best to give something back to Perl. Fortunately there was more than one way to do it.”

For more information download the PDF Press Releases, or view the news story.

 Posted by Leo Lapworth at 17:55

Perl QA Hackathon 2012: Last call for participation

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Jan 192012
 

The Perl QA Hackathon 2012 is taking place from Friday, March 30th to Sunday, April 1st 2012 in Paris, France. Attendance is free. Attendees work on a wide variety of tools for the benefit of Perl and all who use it. The more people they have present, the more Perl will improve. Projects on the itinerary include the Perl build toolchain and many tools around CPAN.

Registration will close on January 31st, 2012, so signup sooner rather than later.

You can also propose other people who should be invited. As with past years, they aim to fund the travel and accommodation costs for those who cannot otherwise get funding.

Sponsors required

Sponsoring the event is not reserved to organizations and corporations:if you think the Hackathon is useful to the Perl community, but cannot attend yourself, you can still contribute to the success of the event by making a donation. Even small donations will help and would be greatly appreciated.

 Posted by Community Submission at 06:45

MetaCPAN logo competition announced

 Announce, Websites  1 Response »
Dec 172011
 

The MetaCPAN team have announced a competition to design them a logo, the winning entry will get a prize of $400 USD, not to mention having their design used on this great site.

The prize has been provided by the Enlightened Perl Organisation

The deadline is the 13th of January 2012, so make sure to have your laptop with you over the holiday season.

For more information visit http://contest.metacpan.org/ or see the entries so far.

 Posted by Leo Lapworth at 15:59

Booking.com Donate Another €100,000

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Dec 142011
 

Following their donation of $10,000 in the summer, Booking.com have made another donation towards the future development of Perl. This time the donation is for €100,000. Perl Foundation president Karen Pauley and former Perl 5 Pumpking Jesse Vincent are travelling to Amsterdam where they will accept the donation.

More details and a press release will be available on the Perl Foundation web site later.

 Posted by Dave Cross at 14:11

Perl Team Wins W3C competition

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Dec 072011
 

A team from the Brazilian Perl Mongers has won a prestigious Latin America web app competition, Desarrollando América Latina, in association with W3C.

The challenge was to build an application in 30 hours, using open data and open source tools. Of the 47 teams and only one of them used Perl, .

View their entry or read more about the event.

 Posted by Mark Keating at 06:15

Strawberry Perl 5.14.2 has a preview release

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Nov 172011
 

Strawberry Perl, an enhanced distribution for Windows, has a new maintainer, KMX and a new preview release for Perl 5.14.2.

 Posted by brian d foy at 07:28

Perl Weekly reaches 2000 subscribers

 Community Submitted News  5 Responses »
Nov 162011
 

The Perl Weekly newsletter, first sent out on 1st August 2011 to 15 subscribers has since grown steady and on 16th November it passed 2000 subscribers.

Perl Weekly is a curated newsletter sent out once a week, on Monday morning (European time). It contains 10-15 links to the most interesting Perl related news and blog posts of the previous week, each with a few lines of comment that help the reader know what can be expected from the link.

It is especially aimed at people who want to keep an eye on the development in Perl, CPAN and the Perl community in general but who don’t have time to read all the news items, blogs and tweets the Perl community generates.

Subscribe to the Perl Weekly newsletter yourself to find out more.

 Posted by szabgab at 16:44

Perl Nights opens for a public beta

 Community Submitted News  7 Responses »
Nov 062011
 

Perl Nights is a new social networking site for Perl built to emulate the venerable but ageing Perl Monks site, but using aXML and PSGI/Plack.

The full source code to Perl Nights will be available in the Castle Blueprints section once the beta period is over and all features are complete and bug free.

 Posted by Community Submission at 13:18

metacpan.org one year old

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Nov 032011
 

https://metacpan.org/ is a year old today. The site and API have come a long way in just one year and offer a great way to search CPAN either through a browser or the API.

The API is already powering new features in Padre, the Perl IDE as well as an iPhone CPAN app – iCPAN and github meets CPAN website.

There have been a large number of contributors and an ever increase set of features.

Olaf looks back at a few of the more recent updates.

There are still a large number of issues and features which the project wants to add, and they are are always looking for more Volunteers.

Congratulations to all involved.

 Posted by Leo Lapworth at 08:36

PrePAN – Perl code review and discussion site launches

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Oct 292011
 

http://prepan.org/ was recently launched at http://yapcasia.org/2011/ and was announced to the rest of the Perl community by @kentaro.

The site focuses on code review and discussions, with the goal of helping module authors get feedback, suggestions and help before they upload a new module to CPAN.

This is a really interesting idea and is getting lots of use even after having been live for only a couple of days. There are several changes and additions planned for the future, so this is definitely a site to keep an eye on.

 Posted by Leo Lapworth at 16:51
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