Posts Tagged ‘TPF’

EPO Site Redesign

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 [...]

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 [...]

YE2011::Days Two and Three

(This is a personal reflection on the second and third day of the YAPC Europe 2011, it is not intended to be a guide to what was on or a significant critique of the event, it is just a personal journal). Day Two Day Two of YAPC was started by Alexei who quickly welcomed us [...]

YE2011::Day One

There are going to be blogs about YAPCEU, already Leon has done a report on his Day One that is far nicer than what I would have written, I just wanted to do an interim report on what I have seen, been doing. I arrived early on Day One and was greeted by the usual [...]

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 [...]

Common Market Policy*

Perl Foundation Homepage Enlightened Perl Organisation Homepage As I have mentioned here many times I am involved with the marketing and promotion of Perl. This started as a need to promote Perl in connection with my company, Shadowcat Systems Limited, and then a growing desire to make sure that the image and information about the [...]

DuckDuckGo Gain an OS Community Manager

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 [...]

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 [...]