The Perl Foundation has various grants. This page tries to provide an unofficial list of the on-going grants.
If you find mistakes or omissions, please comment below or send a pull request. There is a TODO list at the end of the page.
Sources:
- Dan Wright, the treasurer of TPF talking about TPF Year in Review - 2014
- news.perlfoundation.org. Covered 2010.01.01-2014.08.09
- Makoto Nozaki, the head of the Grants Committee
- Alberto Simões the previous head of the Grants Committee
Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund
Overview about the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund Detailed financial information in this Google document.
- 2013.01.19 Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund Status
Title Person Start Latest Amount Status
Fixing Perl 5 Core Bugs Dave Mitchell 2010.02.07 2013.06.10 35,500 done
Improving Perl 5 Nicholas Clark 2011.08.21 2013.10.24 140,000 done
Travel to QA Hackathon 2012 Ricardo Signes 2012.01.31 2012.02.20 900 done
Devel::Cover Paul Johnson 2012.04.03 2014.08.03 20,000 running
Cross compilation of Perl 5 Jess Robinson 2012.05.01 2012.09.03 10,000 running
Travel to QA Hackathon 2013 Ricardo Signes 2013.02.05 2013.04.17 1,200 done
Maintaining Perl 5 Tony Cook 2013.05.19 2014.08.06 46,000 running
Maintaining the Perl 5 Core Dave Mitchell 2013.09.01 2014.08.09 40,000 running
Travel to QA Hackathon 2014 Ricardo Signes 2014.01.29 2014.03.02 1,200 done
Travel to QA Hackathon 2014 David Golden 2014.02.07 2014.03.02 1,200 done
Improving Perl 5 - Nicholas Clark
- Amount: $140,000 (7*400 = 2800 hours * $50)
- 2011.08.21 proposal ($20,000)
- 2011.09.05 accepted ($20,000)
- 2011.10.17 Month 1
- 2011.11.03 Month 2
- 2011.11.18 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2011.12.08 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2011.12.13 Month 3
- 2012.01.08 Month 4
- 2012.02.17 Month 5
- 2012.02.26 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2012.03.29 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2012.04.11 Month 6
- 2012.04.12 Month 7
- 2012.06.03 Month 8
- 2012.06.26 Month 9
- 2012.06.26 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2012.07.10 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2012.07.26 Month 10
- 2012.09.03 Month 11
- 2012.09.17 Month 12
- 2012.10.04 Month 13
- 2012.10.08 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2012.10.21 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2012.12.04 Month 14
- 2013.01.14 Month 15
- 2013.02.05 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2013.02.19 Month 16
- 2013.03.04 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2013.04.22 Month 17
- 2013.04.25 Month 18
- 2013.06.12 Month 19
- 2013.07.16 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2013.07.30 Month 19
- 2013.07.31 Month 20
- 2013.08.06 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2013.10.15 Month 21
- 2013.10.24 Month 22 Status: done
Maintaining Perl 5 - Tony Cook
- Amount: $46,000 (2*260 + 400 = 920 hours * $50)
- 2013.05.19 proposal ($13,000)
- 2013.07.01 approved ($13,000)
- 2013.08.09 Month 1
- 2013.09.02 Month 2
- 2013.09.29 Month 3
- 2013.10.29 Extension Request ($13,000)
- TODO: Is there a report accepting this request?
- 2014.01.29 Month 4
- 2014.02.15 Month 6
- 2014.03.09 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2014.03.12 Month 7
- 2014.04.22 Grant extended by 400 hours ($20,000)
- 2014.05.15 Month 8
- 2014.06.01 Month 9
- 2014.07.08 Month 10
- 2014.08.04 Month 11
- 2014.08.06 Month 12
- Status: running
Fixing Perl 5 Core Bugs - Dave Mitchell
- Amount: $35,500
- 2010.02.07 proposal ($25,000 = 500 hours * $50)
- 2010.03.05 approved
- 2010.04.06 Month 1
- 2010.05.07 Month 2
- 2010.07.08 Month 4
- 2010.08.10 Month 5
- 2010.09.04 Month 6
- 2010.10.14 Month 7
- 2010.11.12 Month 8
- 2010.12.21 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2010.12.28 Month 9
- 2011.01.04 Month 10
- 2011.02.14 Month 11
- 2011.03.20 Month 12
- 2011.04.13 Month 13
- 2011.05.03 Month 14
- 2011.06.16 Month 15
- 2011.07.26 Month 16
- 2011.08.23 Month 17
- 2011.09.26 Month 18
- 2011.09.27 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2011.10.11 Month 19
- 2011.10.17 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2011.11.03 Month 20
- 2011.12.13 Month 21
- 2012.01.30 Month 22
- 2012.03.26 Month 24
- 2012.04.10 Month 25
- 2012.06.03 Month 26
- 2012.06.10 Month 27
- 2012.06.25 Extension request ($20,000)
- 2012.07.10 Extension approved ($20,000)
- 2012.07.13 Month 28
- 2012.09.12 Month 29 and 30
- 2012.10.03 Month 31
- 2012.11.26 Month 32
- 2013.01.15 Month 33
- 2013.03.25 Month 35
- 2013.04.22 Month 37
- 2013.05.10 Month 38
- 2013.06.10 Month 39
- Status: done
Maintaining the Perl 5 Core - Dave Mitchell
- Amount: $40,000
- 2013.09.01 proposal
- 2013.12.11 approved, first report
- 2014.01.14 Month 2 (Nov 2013)
- 2014.01.20 Report 2
- 2014.02.16 Report 1
- 2014.03.18 Report 3
- 2014.04.04 Grant Extension Request
- 2014.04.09 Report 4
- 2014.05.26 Report 5
- 2014.07.08 Report 6
- 2014.07.18 Report 7
- 2014.08.09 Report 8
- Status: running
Devel::Cover - Paul Johnson
- Amount: $20,000
- 2012.04.03 proposal ($20,000)
- 2012.05.02 accepted ($20,000)
- 2012.06.15 May 2012
- 2012.07.20 June 2012
- 2012.08.09 July 2012 report
- 2012.09.13 August 2012 report
- 2013.06.24 May 2013 report
- 2013.09.03 June 2013 report
- 2013.09.03 July 2013 report
- 2013.09.03 August 2013 report
- 2014.04.29 March 2014 report
- 2014.05.27 April 2014 report
- 2014.08.03 May and June 2014
- Status: running
Improving Cross compilation of Perl 5 - Jess Robinson
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Amount: $10,000
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2012.05.01 proposal ($10,000)
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2012.06.05 approved ($10,000)
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2012.09.03 report
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Status: running
Travel to QA Hackathon 2012 - Ricardo Signes
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Amount: $900
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2012.01.31 proposal ($900)
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2012.02.20 approved ($900)
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Satus: done
Travel to QA Hackathon 2013 - Ricardo Signes
- Amount: $1,200
- 2013.02.05 proposal ($1,200)
- 2013.02.25 approved ($1,200)
- 2013.04.17 completed
- Status: done
Travel to QA Hackathon 2014 - Ricardo Signes
Travel to QA Hackathon 2014 - David Golden
Outreach Program for Women
- 2013.03.27 Outreach Program for Women
- 2013.04.22 Outreach Program for Women Moves Forward with €1000 Pledge
- 2013.03.04 Outreach Program for Women 2014
General TPF Grant
- 2010.03.24 Updating the Grant Process
- 2010.05.08 New Grant Rules
- 2010.05.11 New Grant Managers
- 2010.05.12 Running Grants - A summary report
- 2014.02.01 New Secretary Elected for the Grants Committee
- 2014.02.05 Grants Committee Changes
- 2014.02.27 New Rules of Operation
Paid out in 2013: $2,500. Budget for 2014: $16,000 (see the TPF Year in Review - 2014)
(See also the official list of running grants and the list of completed grants).
Total allocated in 2014: $4,800
Title Person First Latest Amount Status
Mojolicious Documentation Sebastian Riedel 2010.12.16 done
Perlbal documentation José and Bruno 2010.08.01 2010.12.14 2,500
Improvements to Dist::Zilla Ricardo Signes
The Perl Survey Kieren Diment 2010.12.03
Embedding Perl into C++ Leon Timmermans 2010.11.07
Test::Builder Michael Schwern 2011.12.03 done
Changing the Perl 5 optree Gerard Goossen 2010.04.05 done
Strawberry Perl Curtis Jewell
wxPerl documentation Eric cancelled
Game with SDL Kartik Thakore 2010.08.01 2011.01.23 1,500 done
Parrot Jonathan Leto 2010.11.04 2011.07.12 1,500 done
Chef David Golden 2012.02.09 2012.08.17 2,000 done
Alien::Base Joel Berger 2012.02.04 2013.05.08 500 done
Spanish POD Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero 2012.05.03 2013.01.03 2,000 done
Debugger Shlomi Fish 2012.08.14 2012.12.10 1,500 done
YACT Torsten Raudssus 2013.04.04 2014.06.29 (3,000) cancelled
Pinto Jeffrey Thalhammer 2013.05.04 2014.06.29 (3,000) cancelled
Perl::Lint Taiki Kawakami 2014.03.15 2014.07.20 800 running
Modern OOP Toby Inkster 2014.05.11 2014.05.31 4,000 running
Start ACT - Voyager Theo van Hoesel 2014.07.16 2014.07.31 6,000 running
Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl - Kartik Thakore
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Amount: $1,500
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2014.07.16 proposal ($6,000)
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2014.07.31 accepted
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Status: running
Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl - Kartik Thakore
- Amount: $1,500
- 2010.08.01 proposal ($1,500)
- 2010.08.20 approved ()
- 2010.09.16 Report #-1
- 2010.10.11 Report #0
- 2010.11.23 Report #1
- 2010.12.13 Report #2
- 2011.01.15 Report #3
- 2011.01.23 Report #4 - final
- Status: done
Parrot Embed Grant - Jonathan Leto
Amount: $1,500 2010.08.01 proposal ($1,500) TODO?? 2010.08.20 approved () TODO?? 2010.11.04 proposal ($1,500) 2010.11.24 approval ($1,500) 2011.12.24 Report #1 2011.01.24 Report #2 2011.02.28 Report #3 2011.04.06 Report #4 2011.04.30 Report #5 2011.06.02 Report #6 2011.07.12 Report #7 - final Status: done
Perl::Lint - Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 - Taiki Kawakami
- Amount: $800
- Repo: Perl-Lint
- 2014.03.15 proposal
- 2014.03.31 approved
- 2014.06.03 start of work
- 2014.07.20 progress
- Status: running
Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Toby Inkster
YACT - Yet Another Conference Tool - Torsten Raudssus
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Amount: $3,000
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2013.05.04 proposal ($3,000)
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2013.05.28 approved
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2014.11.01 Report 1
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2014.02.14 Report 2
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2014.06.29 cancelled
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Status: cancelled
Next Release of Pinto With Key - Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer
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Amount: $3,000
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2013.05.04 proposal ($3,000)
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2013.05.28 approved ($3,000)
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2013.07.22 Report 1
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2013.10.15 Report 2
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2013.11.20 Report 3
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2014.01.20 Report 4
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2014.03.20 Report 5
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2014.06.29 cancelled
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Status: cancelled
Alien::Base Grant - Joel Berger
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Amount: $500
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2012.02.04 proposal ($500)
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2012.02.24 approved ()
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2012.03.25 Report #1
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2012.04.25 Report #2
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2012.05.25 Report #3
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2012.06.24 Report #4
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2012.07.27 Report #5
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2012.10.27 Report #6
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2012.11.30 Report #7
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2013.01.30 Report #8
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2013.05.08 Report #9 (final)
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Status: done
Spanish Localization of the Perl Core Documentation - Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero
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Amount: $2,000
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2012.05.03 proposal ($2,000)
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2012.05.22 approved ($2,000)
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2012.07.04 Report
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2012.08.07 Report #1
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2012.09.07 Report #2
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2012.10.10 Report #3
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2012.10.16 Report #4
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2013.01.03 Report #6
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Status: done
Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger - Shlomi Fish
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Amount: $1,500
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2012.08.14 proposal ($1,500)
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2012.08.28 approved ($1,500)
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2012.09.01 Report
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2012.09.07 Report 1
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2012.09.22 Report 2
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2012.10.18 Report 3
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2012.11.23 Report 4
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2012.12.10 Report 5 - final report
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Status: done
Cooking Perl with Chef - David Golden
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Amount: $2,000
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2012.02.09 proposal ($2,000)
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2012.02.24 approved ()
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2012.03.19 Report #1
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2012.04.23 Report #2
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2012.05.20 Report #3
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2012.08.02 Report #4
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2012.08.17 Completion Report
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Status: done
Changing the Perl 5 optree build - Gerard Goossen
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Amount:
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2010.04.05 final report
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Status: done
Test::Builder 2 - Michael Schwern
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Amount:
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2010.06.27 Update
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2010.09.09 Update
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2011.06.06 Test::Builder 2 is not dead
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2011.12.03 final report
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Status: done
Strawberry Perl - Curtis Jewell
- Amount:
- 2010.03.14 Update
- 2010.05.05 Update
- 2010.06.02 final report
- Status: done
