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 [...]
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Google Code In 2012
04 Nov 2012 at 10:09
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Enlightened Perl Organisation, Events, Google, Google Code-in, The Perl Foundation
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Support a Research Project
The Perl Foundation is pleased to be working with and promoting Kevin Carillo’s research into newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities. You also can help by taking the time to fill out this survey. Kevin is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. [...]
More Meat to Market
New Committee Members As announced on the front page of the Perl Foundation, and my pleasure to repeat here, the Perl Foundation Marketing Committee has three new members in the form of: Torsten ‘Getty’ Raudssus Jess ‘Castaway’ Robinson Ian ‘IDN’ Norton This is part of a continuing move to further the goals and aims of [...]
Long Live CPAN Testers
27 Aug 2012 at 13:02
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CPAN Testers, Enlightened Perl Organisation, Shadowcat, The Perl Foundation
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As noted on the Shadowcat News Page over the previous weekend Shadowcat Systems has become the first company to pledge support for CPAN Testers and to make a monthly contribution to the initiative using the signup page on the Enlightened Perl site. Committing to Long Term Support What do I mean by long term pledge [...]
GSoC 2012
Announcements On Saturday 4th February Google confirmed that they would be running the Google Summer of Code for the 8th year and once again the Perl Foundation will attempt to be a participating organisation and is seeking your help. Call for Ideas Once again we will be using the Enlightened Perl Organisation‘s MojoMojo blog to [...]
EPO Site Redesign
30 Dec 2011 at 12:22
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Enlightened Perl Organisation, Google Code-in, The Perl Foundation, Uncategorized
If you haven’t heard already allow me to share with you the fact that the Enlightened Perl Organisation website has had a redesign. The site had a previous design from circa July 2008 which was done at the time as a JFDI placeholder look while awaiting a new design, unfortunately that weekend effort lasted for [...]
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: André Walker – Rework Catalyst component setup code Mentored by Tomas Doran and Eden Cardim Brian Neil [...]
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 [...]
