Note: The Perl Foundation did not get accepted to this year’s event.
Once again the Perl Foundation will be attempting to participate in the 7th GSoC, which was announced on the 4th February 2012.
The organising team are currently seeking ideas and help with mentors and students, you can join #soc-help on irc.perl.org for more information or follow the links below. Flyers and support material is available on the Perl Foundation’s Press Release Page
The Enlightened Perl Organisation has launched its new Membership site. On this site you are now able to manage your own membership and choose how and when you would like to pay for Ordinary Membership.
You can now also donate online to:
This new site allows individual and recurring payments set to the users choice.
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.
The Perl Foundation is aiming to participate as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2011! Our application must be prepared by 1st November 2011 and if we are successful this will be announced on 9th November 2011.
We would gratefully ask for your help by providing project ideas for this year’s students as soon as possible so that we can gain acceptance onto this program. Tasks can be added after the 1st November but the more tasks we have by that date the more chance we have of succeeding as a mentoring organisation.
The program ideally suits small tasks that can be achieved within a few hours to a few days of work. The students will be at high school/college and be aged between 13 – 18 years.
Please visit this page for information and learn how to submit your tasks here.
The Perl Foundation announced today (30/08/11) that LOVEFiLM is the latest company to show its support for the Perl language and community.
The London Perl Workshop (the United Kingdom’s Perl Workshop) has opened its website and call for speakers. On the website you can login (you’ll need an Act login), register and submit a talk. The workshop will be on 12th November at the University of Westminster’s New Cavendish Campus.
The Theme this year is Industrial Strength Perl, and will focus on the manner in which Perl is used in the commercial world and the strength of Perl for development in an enterprise environment. You can use any aspect of Perl such as Camelia, Rakudo, Raptor, etc. Speakers are invited to talk on any subject that relates to this theme, though we will also accept talks on other subjects.
Vienna.pm have announced $10,000 (USD) of “match funding” for the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund announced this week. For every $1 of funding found they will contribute $1 to a maximum of $10,000, which will leave just 20% of the remaining initial round of funding to be achieved.
The initial funding round will be used to continue funding Dave Mitchell’s work and to fund new work on the core by Nicholas Clark.
The Perl Foundation is looking for companies and individuals to donate to its Perl 5 Core Maintenance fund.
The Perl Foundation has provided a series of grants targeted at improving the Perl 5 core. The original funding as provided by Booking.com is now almost depleted, but The Perl Foundation is committed to raising new funding to help continue and expand this important venture. We are hoping to further fund Dave Mitchell’s work and to fund new work on the core by Nicholas Clark.
Larger sponsors will receive specific mention of their contribution to this fund on the Sponsor’s page under the fund’s section, donations of $1,000 dollars or more will result in the sponsor’s logo being used and the organisation (of choice) being credited on a weekly report. Please visit the page on the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund for more details and how to submit a contribution.
Perl 5.14 has been officially released.
Some of the key changes are:
A big thanks goes to Jesse Vincent (release manager) and all the 150 contributors to this release.
YAPC::NA::2011 in Ashville North Carolina 27-29th June 2011, is looking for BoFs, Hackathons and Training Courses:
The hotel special rates will end in 10 days. The block booking will be released at midnight (US East Coast UTC-5) on the 20th May, use the code TPF when booking online at: http://www.ashevillecp.com/home/.