Google accepts six summer Perl Projects

 Google Summer of Code  1 Response »
Apr 262011
 

The 2011 Google Summer of Code accepted six of the students from The Perl Foundation:

  1. André Walker – Rework Catalyst component setup code
    Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim
  2. Brian Neil Fraser – Making the Perl Core UTF-8 clean
    Mentored by Florian Ragwitz and Zefram
  3. Carlos Ivan Sosa – Removing the upgrading necessity of the Dancer script with a module
    Mentored by Sawyer X and Franck Cuny
  4. Marc Green – Standardization of core documentation parsing tools
    Mentored by Ricardo Signes and David E. Wheeler
  5. Moritz Onken – CPAN search for the modern web
    Mentored by Clinton Gormley and Olaf Alders
  6. Tadeusz Sośnierz – Pod parser for Rakudo
    Mentored by Moritz Lenz and Carl Mäsak

Each student is paired with at least one mentor in the Perl community who oversees and guides the project through the summer.

2011 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop Call for Presentations

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Apr 232011
 

Presenters are wanted for the 5th Annual Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, to be held at the Carnegie Mellon University on October 8 and 9, 2011. The call for presentations is now open (closes on Wednesday, May 18th).

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop was established in 2006 as a low-cost technical conference for users of the Perl Programming Language. The conference emphasizes real code and immediate, pratical solutions to common issues.

Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1 now available for testing

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Apr 212011
 

The first release candidate for Perl 5.14.0 is available for download from CPAN.

While Perl5-Porters go to great lengths to ensure that new versions of Perl don’t break existing programs, it does happen. It’s really, really important that all unintentional breakages are caught before the final release of Perl 5.14.0.

It is imperative that you test this release candidate with any software written in Perl which you use or maintain. As always, don’t get rid of your old perl before you know your stuff works with the new one.

If no “showstopper” class bugs are found in the next 7 days, Perl5-Porters will release a virtually identical tarball as Perl 5.14.0 on Thursday, April 28, 2011.

Donate to Send-a-Newbie 2011

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Apr 042011
 

The Enlightened Perl Organization‘s Send-a-Newbie initiative is seeking donations to send attendees, new to a large conference, to YAPC::EU::2011 in Riga, Latvia from August 15-17. They accept any size of donation, though large donors (£100+) can choose to have a company logo and link on the site.