As some of you may know, if you follow shadowcat_mdk on Twitter, I have some news to be announced later this week, but before that I have some great news to announce about a friend, and fellow community member. Torsten Raudssus, @raudssus on Twitter and Getty on irc, has been made the “Open Source Community [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Perl Foundation’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
More GSOC
As you may know from reading my last post the Google Summer of Code gives students the chance to involve themselves with an open source project and this year the efforts on behalf of The Perl Foundation (TPF) are being run by Florian Ragwitz (Rafl). The first stage of this process (the accepting of the [...]
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 [...]
EPO and the QA Hackathon
For those of you in the know, which would be anyone who is in the perl-qa channel on irc.perl.org or have looked at the wiki (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org/qa2011/wiki) on the QA Hackathon website (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org), or maybe heard on Twitter/Facebook/-insert social media type- the QA organisers, and especially the Herculean efforts of Book and Erica have now secured [...]
Send-A-Newbie
The current state of play YAPC::EU::2010::Pisa is just a week or so away and I thought it would be time to talk about the send-a-newbie initiative once again. (If you are unfamiliar with send-a-newbie visit the website at send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org) As I spoke about previously this initiative was organised last year by Edmund von der Burg [...]
