I wanted to post a quick thanks to the folks helping out with the TPF booth this year. So thanks to ben hengst (notbenh), Jeff Lavallee, Uri, Josh, and all the other folks who took some time to make sure people got answers to their Perl questions. Jeff is a local and actually got permission from his manager to come down for just the day and man the booth.
As reported recently, Adam has made progress with his Perl on a Stick project. In fact, he's made enough progress that we're able to offer 1G USB drives loaded with Strawberry Perl here at OSCON for $15. We have them at the TPF Booth, so stop by and get one.
You can find on use.perl some updates on Adam Kennedy Perl on a Stick grant.
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This is the first release of Strawberry Perl Portable Edition for Mobile Devices and Flash Drives (or whatever the hell it ends up being called).
Firstly, please note this is extremely alpha. In fact it's SO alpha that it's basically just whatever is on my test flash drive, zipped up with no packaging at all.To install, simply unzip it absolutely anywhere you like.
The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2008.
In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).
You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!
Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by July 31.
As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria
- It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it.
- We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals.
- We can afford it.
To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org.
On August 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous round. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public.
Note that accepted but not funded proposals in the previous round do not need to be re-submitted.The Perl Foundation is happy to announce the returning of the Yet Another Perl Conference to it's origin for 2009. The Perl Foundation Conferences Committee has chosen Pittsburgh as the venue for the next North American YAPC.
As has been a trend for the past few years, the votes were very close. We had two great bids from Pittsburgh and Columbus.
Continue reading It's Pittsburgh for YAPC::NA 2009.
Thanks to Karen and Marty Pauley, we now have a Plagger site set up aggregating yapc feeds. Give it a shot and let me know if we're not picking up your blog.
