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:

Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund

Overview about the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund Detailed financial information in this Google document.

  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

Maintaining Perl 5 - Tony Cook

Fixing Perl 5 Core Bugs - Dave Mitchell

Maintaining the Perl 5 Core - Dave Mitchell

Devel::Cover - Paul Johnson

Improving Cross compilation of Perl 5 - Jess Robinson

Travel to QA Hackathon 2012 - Ricardo Signes

Travel to QA Hackathon 2013 - Ricardo Signes

Travel to QA Hackathon 2014 - Ricardo Signes

Travel to QA Hackathon 2014 - David Golden

Outreach Program for Women

General TPF Grant

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

Manual for Game Development with SDL Perl - Kartik Thakore

Parrot Embed Grant - Jonathan Leto

Perl::Lint - Yet Another Static Analyzer for Perl5 - Taiki Kawakami

Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Toby Inkster

YACT - Yet Another Conference Tool - Torsten Raudssus

Next Release of Pinto With Key - Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer

Alien::Base Grant - Joel Berger

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

Adding tests to and refactoring the perl debugger - Shlomi Fish

Cooking Perl with Chef - David Golden

Changing the Perl 5 optree build - Gerard Goossen

Test::Builder 2 - Michael Schwern

Strawberry Perl - Curtis Jewell

Archive::Zip - Alan Haggai

wxPerl documentation - Eric
  • Amount:
  • 2010.06.23 Update
  • Status: cancelled

Mojolicious Documentation - Sebastian Riedel

Perlbal Documentation - José Castro Bruno Martins

Improvements to Dist::Zilla - Ricardo Signes

The Perl Survey - Kieren Diment

Embedding Perl into C++ Applications - Leon Timmermans

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

Numeric and Real Support - Solomon Foster

Perl 6 Tablets - Herbert Breunung

Structured Error Messages: Design and Implementation - Moritz Lenz

Meta-model Improvements and Natively Typed Attributes - Jonathan Worthington

Lists, Iterators, and Parcels - Patrick Michaud

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

Implementation of Macros in Rakudo - Carl Mäsak

Travel to YAPC::EU - Patrick Michaud

TPF in General

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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