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Google Code In 2012

Once again we will be attempting to participate in the Google Code-In (http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012) on behalf of the Perl Foundation with the support of the Perl Community. As last year the principal organiser will be Paul Johnson accompanied by Florian Ragwitz, Wesley Johnson and Mark Keating. We are looking for the whole community to help contribute [...]

Google Code-in – Fit the Third

(Please note that the figures used in this article are from 12:00 UTC on Tuesday 27th December and they are pulled from a download of data from the Melange interface, the absolute accuracy is dependent on the people providing the data (very good IME) but will, therefore, not reflect the exact situation at the time [...]

Google Code-in – Fit the First

Yesterday, Monday 21st November, saw the official start at 08:00 UTC of the Google Code-in Student participation. What this meant was that students could sign up to the program and start taking tasks from that point. I thought I would take this opportunity to bring you all up to date on how the efforts are [...]

GSoC – Next year’s flyer

The Perl Foundation Perl GSoC Before we begin I just wish to state that I haven’t gone insane I just have channeled the spirit of Baden Powell and am working in advance so that we can function efficiently later this year. So I am proud to present to you the current working copy of the [...]

GSoC – Progress Report

The Perl Foundation Perl GSoC In the last post I wrote about GSoC and the efforts on behalf of The Perl Foundation I promised to keep you all updated on the events as they transpired. This is the first report of that promise. Honeymoon Over… (So while we all look sideways and shrug to avoid [...]

GSoC – The TPF Accepted Students

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: AndrĂ© Walker – Rework Catalyst component setup code Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim Brian Neil [...]

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 [...]

Student and Mentor sign-ups for GSOC

If you wish to sign up to the Google Summer of Code, on behalf of The Perl Foundation, as either a mentor or a student you can do so now simply go to: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/tpf. The process from there is very simple. 1. Click the “Register” button if you are a student, or the “register as [...]

Google Summer of Code

This year’s GSOC efforts on behalf of the Perlverse are being organised by the magnificent Florian Ragwitz (rafl on irc) on behalf of The Perl Foundation. Rafl is currently seeking ideas, students and mentors for the event and hoping that the community can help with this. Rafl has placed a page on the EPO wiki [...]

B-B-B-ouncing Beta

So they have in fact taken away the Beta, from all their “office” products… http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-is-out-of-beta-yes-really.html No mention of my blog post on this, so there can be only one conclusion…they read my post and decided to get rid of the Beta. So, on that note… Why is it that Google don’t send me high tech [...]