Makoto Nozaki

• About: Secretary, The Perl Foundation.

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• Posted At Perl Station to Makoto Nozaki

  So I visited Perl. More pictures to follow.

  Perl train station at night

  

  Perl train station during daytime

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• Posted German Perl Workshop to Makoto Nozaki

  I am just back from German Perl Workshop. The workshop is held every year and I finally had a chance to visit it!

  I had these reasons to go:
  

  • Meet Perl hackers and community members who I have known online for years
  • Talk about TPF
  • Visit Perl, a small town in G…

• Posted Barcelona Perl Mongers Meetup! to Makoto Nozaki

  I had the honor to give a talk at Barcelona.pm Meetup. Perl community rocks as everybody knows; my new friends welcomed me and my family. We felt home, learned new things, enjoyed the nice dinner and it became the most memorable…

• Posted See you at Barcelona.pm! to Makoto Nozaki

  I got a fantastic opportunity to give a talk at Barcelona.pm meetup in August. I'll speak about The Perl Foundation, focusing on grants and donations. For those who love technical talks as much as I do, there will be three more…

• Posted September grant round started to Makoto Nozaki

  We have five proposals to review, including the one from July.

  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/09/september-2015-grant-proposals-1.html

• Commented on RFC: Perl software of the year award
  Thanks all for the feedback. I have opened the discussion with the TPF steering committee and TPF President separately....
• Posted Perl開発の助成金プログラムについて to Makoto Nozaki

  This is a Japanese summary of Grants Committee Charter, How to write a proposal and Grant Benefits.…

• Commented on RFC: Perl software of the year award
  I got this comment by email from Joel Roth. Some forum to showcase interesting perl apps seems like a great idea. I'm aware that most distributions through CPAN are libraries rather than apps. Perl apps don't get much exposure compared...
• Commented on RFC: Perl software of the year award
  I got this comment by email from David Farrell, the Editor of PerlTricks.com. I really like the idea you proposed in your blog post "RFC: Perl software of the year" I like the way it provides a new way to...
• Posted RFC: Perl software of the year award to Makoto Nozaki

  Earlier I wrote this blog post, which in summary says value of a Perl software project, as opposed to a Perl infrastructure project, is difficult to quantify until the software is…

• Posted Grant idea - DBIx::Class re-documentation to Makoto Nozaki

  Peter Rabbitson sent me this idea:

  I can not think of anything qualifying as doesn't have to be a huge Perl project* However, I have an idea which unquestionably will benefit the Perl community immensely, yet has a remarkably low barrier to entry (mainly one thing - patience). I p…

• Posted Grant idea - OData to Makoto Nozaki

  Alex aka ASB gave me this proposal:

  We (the Perl community) currently do not have a CPAN module that handles OData (cf. odata.org). There seems tob e an attempt to do it here: OData::Clie…

• Commented on Grants for applications (vs. Perl infrastructure)?
  Thanks Dave. It's not easy to find (which I'll fix) but the open source license is required: - - - http://www.perlfoundation.org/grant_benefits All software developed under a TPF Development grant must be released under a publically available license that is free...
• Posted Grants for applications (vs. Perl infrastructure)? to Makoto Nozaki

  Somebody asked me:

  Is the Foundation mainly interested in grants to help fund work on Perl's own infrastructure -- the language itself, key modules, and other community projects -- or would it also be open to considering funding open-source applications created with Perl, bu…

• Posted Grant idea - pack and unpack on streams to Makoto Nozaki

  Merijn Brand gave me this proposal. As it’s too long for our grant ideas list, I am posting here.

  Currently, pack and unpack work on a string, which means that you have to move forward in the data-string yourself, if the full data-format is not known in advance, but de…

• Commented on Bounty for fixing CPAN modules
  As a start, I have made a list of ideas I gathered and also added a link to BountySource. Feedback will be welcomed! http://www.perlfoundation.org/grant_ideas...
• Posted Grant ideas to Makoto Nozaki

  I made a list of grant idas. Nothing fancy but it's just a start.

  Share grant ideas. Use the ideas. Improve Perl.

• Commented on RFC: Limiting grant duration
  Although the proposal is not a bad idea to help mitigate the effects of this problem, it seems to me we need a better understanding of why this is happening in the first place. Right. It's in our agenda to...
• Posted RFC: Limiting grant duration to Makoto Nozaki

  I am thinking about adding this to the grants operation rules:

  If the grant does not finish within three times of the proposed duration or within two years, the grant will be considered a failure.

  First of all, it should be noted that it won't affect mo…

• Commented on Grants Committee 2014
  And thank YOU for being a part of the effort!...
• Posted Grants Committee 2014 to Makoto Nozaki

  I have posted a formal version of the Grants Committee 2014 report.

  Here is another, a bit less formal and more personal version.

  Here I am

  I took over the position of the Grants Comm…

• Posted September grant round is just around the corner to Makoto Nozaki

  The Grants Committee evaluates grant proposals every two months (rules 1.1). We accept grant proposals all the time, and in this round, we will evaluate proposals which we get between July 15th till September 14th. I will post a CFP…

• Posted Want to help the Perl community? Here's how. to Makoto Nozaki

  Please respond by tomorrow (Aug 15th).

  Grants Committee Looking For Volunteers - The Perl Foundation

• Posted July 2014 Grant Proposals to Makoto Nozaki

  We have received two proposals for this round. Take a look and give them feedback. Your input is important for us to determine how to use the community money.

  If you have a grant idea but missed this round…

• Commented on Grants Committee Budget
  Thanks. I wish there were a Like button!...
• Posted Grants Committee Budget to Makoto Nozaki

  I don't know the Grants Committee ever published the annual budget. I see reasons to do so and not to do, but let's do it. Transparency is a good thing.

  Conclusion first. The Grants Committee's budget for 2014 is $16,000.

  Here is how it works.

  Rule #1…

• Posted Grants Cancellation to Makoto Nozaki

  As announced in the official blog (link), three grants have been cancelled. All of them have been stalled for some time.

  It is neither a pleasant nor easy decision for us to cancel grants regardless of a reason.…

• Posted $4,000 grant approved to Makoto Nozaki

  The Grants Committee approved and funded the grant proposal "Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl" in the previous round.

  This is our first time to fund a grant which exceeds $3,000 since ="http://n…

• Commented on Improving the grant program (1) Grant Limit
  We are disclosing the budget--wait for my post....
• Commented on Improving the grant program (2) Bi-monthly Grant Cycle
  Dear jjn1056, Apologies I missed your comment. The limit is per grant, not per person. This is defined in the Grants Committee Charter as: "(The committee is not able to enter) any contract or agreement worth more than $10,000" http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants_committee_charter...

Comment Threads

• Gábor Szabó - גאבור סבו commented on Grants Committee 2014 first half

  Toby, no. I mean covering all the grants, not only the "General TPF Grant". With details.

  Makoto, thank you for your work. Yes, having the information in a more accessible way would be nice.
  

• Olaf Alders commented on RFC: Perl software of the year award

  I like it, particularly as it would make it easy to highlight a single project as an example of a project done well. Working on these sorts of things can be a thankless job, so actively selecting a project to show some appreciation seems like a very nice idea to me.

• BooK commented on RFC: Perl software of the year award

  I think it would probably be best if the software in question was NOT just a CPAN module. I.e. it should be a complete program, not only a library (or a set of libraries). That restriction (program versus library) does not prevent it to be distributed on CPAN (notable examples, exiftool, ack).

  I imagine there could be several categories: command-line, GUI, web application...
  Then I suppose (contradicting my first paragraph) that there could be a "library" category. :-)

• mocnii commented on RFC: Perl software of the year award

  One example of CPAN library getting Application of the year award (outside of Perl community) is MySQL::Sandbox (work of GMAX - MySQL expert and long time Perl programmer).
  Why: MySQL Sandbox is a flexible tool that helps to install, test, and dispose of MySQL versions quickly and painlessly. It has been available since 2005, and it is kept up-to-date …

• BooK commented on RFC: Perl software of the year award

  And if the award needs a name, I think we can forget camels and butterflies for a moment, and call it the Onion Clock, or maybe the Clockwork Onion.