Unofficial information about The Perl Foundation Grants

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

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

Amount: $10,000
2012.05.01 proposal ($10,000)
2012.06.05 approved ($10,000)
2012.09.03 report
Status: running

Travel to QA Hackathon 2012 - Ricardo Signes

Amount: $900
2012.01.31 proposal ($900)
2012.02.20 approved ($900)
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

Amount: $1,200
2014.01.29 proposal
2014.03.02 approved
Status: done

Travel to QA Hackathon 2014 - David Golden

Amount: $1,200
2014.02.07 proposal
2014.03.02 approved
Status: done

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

Amount: $1,500
2014.07.16 proposal ($6,000)
2014.07.31 accepted
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

Amount: $4,000
2014 05.11 proposal
2014.05.31 approved

YACT - Yet Another Conference Tool - Torsten Raudssus

Amount: $3,000
2013.05.04 proposal ($3,000)
2013.05.28 approved
2014.11.01 Report 1
2014.02.14 Report 2
2014.06.29 cancelled
Status: cancelled

Next Release of Pinto With Key - Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer

Amount: $3,000
2013.05.04 proposal ($3,000)
2013.05.28 approved ($3,000)
2013.07.22 Report 1
2013.10.15 Report 2
2013.11.20 Report 3
2014.01.20 Report 4
2014.03.20 Report 5
2014.06.29 cancelled
Status: cancelled

Alien::Base Grant - Joel Berger

Amount: $500
2012.02.04 proposal ($500)
2012.02.24 approved ()
2012.03.25 Report #1
2012.04.25 Report #2
2012.05.25 Report #3
2012.06.24 Report #4
2012.07.27 Report #5
2012.10.27 Report #6
2012.11.30 Report #7
2013.01.30 Report #8
2013.05.08 Report #9 (final)
Status: done

Spanish Localization of the Perl Core Documentation - Enrique Nell and Joaquin Ferrero

Amount: $2,000
2012.05.03 proposal ($2,000)
2012.05.22 approved ($2,000)
2012.07.04 Report
2012.08.07 Report #1
2012.09.07 Report #2
2012.10.10 Report #3
2012.10.16 Report #4
2013.01.03 Report #6
Status: done

Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger - Shlomi Fish

Amount: $1,500
2012.08.14 proposal ($1,500)
2012.08.28 approved ($1,500)
2012.09.01 Report
2012.09.07 Report 1
2012.09.22 Report 2
2012.10.18 Report 3
2012.11.23 Report 4
2012.12.10 Report 5 - final report
Status: done

Cooking Perl with Chef - David Golden

Amount: $2,000
2012.02.09 proposal ($2,000)
2012.02.24 approved ()
2012.03.19 Report #1
2012.04.23 Report #2
2012.05.20 Report #3
2012.08.02 Report #4
2012.08.17 Completion Report
Status: done

Changing the Perl 5 optree build - Gerard Goossen

Amount:
2010.04.05 final report
Status: done

Test::Builder 2 - Michael Schwern

Amount:
2010.06.27 Update
2010.09.09 Update
2011.06.06 Test::Builder 2 is not dead
2011.12.03 final report
Status: done

Strawberry Perl - Curtis Jewell

Amount:
2010.03.14 Update
2010.05.05 Update
2010.06.02 final report
Status: done

Archive::Zip - Alan Haggai

Amount:
2010.03.04 final report
Status: done

wxPerl documentation - Eric

Amount:
2010.06.23 Update
Status: cancelled

Mojolicious Documentation - Sebastian Riedel

Amount:
2010.05.05 Update
2010.12.16 final report
Status: done

Perlbal Documentation - José Castro Bruno Martins

Amount: $2,500
2010.08.01 proposal ($2,500)
2010.08.20 approved ()
2010.10.29 Report #1
2010.11.26 Report #2
2010.12.14 final report
Status: done

Improvements to Dist::Zilla - Ricardo Signes

Amount: $2,000
2010.02.06 proposal ($2,000)
2010.03.03 approved
2010.03.15 Update
2010.03.27 Update
2010.04.26 Update
2010.05.15 final report
Status: done

The Perl Survey - Kieren Diment

Amount:
2010.03.13 Update
2010.05.20 Update
2010.05.25 Week 2
2010.12.03 final report
Status: done

Embedding Perl into C++ Applications - Leon Timmermans

Amount:
2010.03.28 Report #-1
2010.06.30 Report #0
2010.07.31 Report #1
2010.09.02 Report #2
2010.09.27 Report #3
2010.11.07 final report
Status: done

Hague Grants

  Title                          Person                Start       Latest      Amount Status
  Rakudo Signature Improvements  Jonathan Worthington  2009.09.05  2010.03.03  8,000  done
  Numeric and Real Support       Solomon Foster        2010.03.04  2010.08.04  3,000  done
  Lists, Iterators, and Parcels  Patrick Michaud       2010.07.05  2012.07.31  3,000  running
  Meta-model Improvements        Jonathan Worthington  2010.07.11  2012.07.07  9,000  done
  Perl 6 Tablets                 Herbert Breunung      2010.08.01  2012.04.29    840  running
  Structured Error Messages:     Moritz Lenz           2011.02.23  2012.06.09  1,620  done
  Travel to YAPC::EU             Patrick Michaud       2011.07.06  2011.07.19         done
  Macros in Racudo               Carl Mäsak            2011.09.08  2012.12.02  8,000  running
  Wrap up Perl 5 Interop         diakopter             2013.07.24  2013.09.24 10,000  running

Rakudo Signature Improvements - Jonathan Worthington

Amount: $8,000
2009.09.05 proposal ($8,000)
2010.03.03 final report
Status: done

Numeric and Real Support - Solomon Foster

Amount: $3,000
2010.03.04 proposal ($3,000)
2010.03.23 approved ($3,000)
2010.08.04 final report
Status: done

Perl 6 Tablets - Herbert Breunung

Amount: $840
2010.08.01 proposal ($840)
2010.08.20 approved ()
2010.11.08 First Progress Report
2011.01.25 Early Review
2012.04.29 report
Status: running

Structured Error Messages: Design and Implementation - Moritz Lenz

Amount: $1,620
2011.02.23 proposal ($1,620)
2011.04.04 approved ($1,620)
2012.06.09 closing report
Status: done

Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes - Jonathan Worthington

Amount: $9,000
2010.07.11 proposal ($9,000)
2010.09.01 approved ($9,000)
2011.05.26 Interim Grant Report
2012.07.07 completed
Status: done

Lists, Iterators, and Parcels - Patrick Michaud

Amount: $3,000
2010.07.05 proposal ($3, 000)
2010.08.12 approve ()
2012.07.31 Interim Grant Report
Status: running

Wrap up Perl 5 Interop for Rakudo Perl 6 on MoarVM - diakopter

Amount: $10,000
2013.07.24 proposal ($10,000)
2013.09.24 approved ($10,000)
Status: running

Implementation of Macros in Rakudo - Carl Mäsak

Amount: $8,000
2011.09.08 proposal ($8,000)
2011.11.03 approved
2012.12.02 report
Status: running

Travel to YAPC::EU - Patrick Michaud

2011.07.06 proposal ()
2011.07.19 approved
Status: done

TPF in General

2010.06.12 Donation made to Send-a-Newbie Program (TPF to EPO)
2011.01.01 TPF Programs in 2010
2011.06.28 Vienna.pm Donates Up To $10,000
2011.07.19 Booking.com Sponsor P5CMF
2011.07.19 cPanel Sponsor P5CMF
2011.08.30 LOVEFiLM: Helping support the community
2011.08.31 Net-A-Porter Champions Web Development
2011.09.22 Liquid Web Donate to P5 CMF
2011.12.10 Grant from Booking.Com concludes.
2012.01.01 Booking.com Sponsors  €100,000 to Perl 5 Development
2012.01.24 craigslist Charitable Fund Donates $100,000
2012.10.15 YAPC::NA 2012 Closing Financial Report
2012.10.25 Sponsoring MetaCPAN
2013.01.01 2012 Year End Report
2014.02.18 2013 Year end report

TODO

For each report of the hourly grants, add how many hours the report covered + aggregate to date + left
Update Status: for each grant
Explain each grant type with links.
Add amount to each proposal and each approval line
Cover dates starting from 2008.01.01

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Published on 2014-06-29

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