Syntax highlighting is now available on search.cpan.org (choose your preferred style from the drop down at the bottom of the page, this is remembered for future visits).
Read more in Mark’s Post
Now that the master CPAN repository is hosted by Perl NOC, the first ring of mirrors can use a new “fast sync” rsync that allows any mirror to get updates within 30 seconds of a file changing in the main repository. To use this new fast sync, you need a username/password to connect to the rsync server on the master server. Send mail to cpan@perl.org to request credentials. Anyone mirroring from FUnet directly should make the switch.
The NOC crew detailed instructions for instant mirroring on the Github wiki.
There are several feed aggregators for Perl, but now there is going to be one less. Since Planet Perl mostly duplicates the efforts of other aggregators, such as Perlsphere, it’s just extra work for the Perl NOC crew to maintain it. Planet Perl was the first long running aggregator, but since it started many others started and survived. Perl NOC announced that Planet Perl going dormant. It’s not exactly disappearing, but it will be in a deep sleep for a long time. If the community ever needs it again, they can easily wake it up.
Mar 212011
The Perl Foundation (TPF) is looking for students and mentors to join in with this year’s Google Summer of Code, which gives students a chance to earn summer money while participating in an open-source project. The Perl Foundation, as in past years, serves as the coordinating organization for Summer of Code projects in the Perl community. Student participation opens on March 28 (see the entire timeline).
There are several ways that you can help:
- Distribute the TPF Summer of Code flyer on your local campuses or to your friends.
- Mention the Google Summer of Code in your blog posts, on Twitter, and anywhere else that might get the word out.
- Add your project to the list of the proposed projects.
- Volunteer as a mentor for one of the proposed projects.
Potential students and mentors can contact Florian Ragwitz (Rafl) or #soc-help on IRC.
CPAN.org, which ran faithfully on FUNET since 1993, has had a long-awaited redesign since it moved its main mirror and website to Perl NOC. This is the start of a big a cleanup for the website on the primary CPAN repository to not only make it more visually appealing, but more useful to the Perl community. This moves gives the community much more control over the workings and relieves the long time CPAN Master Librarian, Jarkko Hietaniemi, a much deserved and long-accrued vacation.
If you’d like to participate, you can fork the cpanorg Github repository then send pull requests.
Mar 182011
The Italian Perl Workshop 2011 is accepting talk submissions.
This year’s theme for the workshop is Two Perls, to present Perl 5 and Perl 6 topics at the same workshop. The theme is, however, just a loose guideline: the workshop is interested in any Perl-related submission.
Mar 172011
http://perlnews.org/ has just launched and will be providing a source for major announcements related to The Perl Programming Language (http://www.perl.org/). Find out more at http://perlnews.org/about/ – or if you have a story submit it http://perlnews.org/submit/.
All stories are approved to ensure relevance.
Thanks
The Perl News Team.
The Call for Papers for the 2011 YAPC::NA in Ashville, North Carolina ends on March 24th. This year, the conference takes place on June 27–29, 2011, and is the first YAPC::NA using a remote organizing team.
If you won’t be submitting a talk but have an idea for a talk that you’d like to hear, you can add it to the Ideas for Talks wiki page.
Mar 162011
PerlRDF are proud to announce the first International Hacking RDF with Perl Hackathon in London, UK from the 28th to the 30th of March 2011. The venue is The London Hackspace.
As noted in the Second YAPC::Europe 2011 Newsletter they are now taking talk submissions
Hope to see you in Riga later this year!
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