The Perl Foundation Perl GSoC Today at 19:00 UTC the six successful applicants to represent the Perl Foundation in the Google Summer of Code were selected, approved and informed. I can now let you know who they are: André Walker – Rework Catalyst component setup code Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim Brian Neil [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Perl QA: Some final thoughts
It has been a week since the PERL QA finished and while I was there I wrote about the events of each day. I didn’t, however, do the final day as there were a number of events happening; people were leaving, people debated on what was achieved, people spoke about other events and future years, [...]
A Meeting of Many Camels
QA2011 Hackathon Day One Today marked the first day[1] of the Quality Assurance Hackathon 2011, an event not restricted to but mostly featuring work done in the Perl community. This event has been sponsored by Booking.com, Vienna and French Perl Mongers, YEF and the EPO and is being hosted by Booking.com at their office in [...]
TPF.Perl Badge and Like Button
The Perl Foundation‘s Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/tpf.perl) is gathering a tidy momentum and it is now time for us to produce badges and like buttons that you can use on your websites, blogs etc. The first item is the badge below: The Perl Foundation This is the code that you can cut and paste into your [...]
The Perl Foundation Facebook Page
There is now a (new and official*) page devoted to The Perl Foundation on the social media site, Facebook. If you are a Facebook member and follow the events in the world of Perl you should go and “like” and “share” this page immediately. So I know a few people who will be reading this [...]
Send-a-Newbie 2011
Once again I come to the community and its surrounding fellows, friends and supporters, to ask you to support by the contribution of funds, both great and small, to the annual Send-A-Newbie initiative organised by Mark Keating on behalf of the Enlightened Perl Organisation and the wider Perl Community. This initiative allows, as you can [...]
Sign up to Perl GSoC now!
The Final Countdown… We are into the final week for students to sign up to the Google Summer of Code. The program is accepting submissions from students and mentors until Friday 8th April so now is the time to get involved before it is too late and you suffer from last regrets. But what do [...]
