On Saturday 22 December 2007, Tom Metro wrote: > I recently listened to some (old) Perlcast news segments by Randal > Schwartz and each time he mentioned the TPF grants - talking about what > grants were recently awarded and how to apply for them. > > I wasn't aware that anyone could propose projects to be funded by TPF > and that they funded small projects. I had the impression that they were > there to fund core Perl development. Probably because that's how it > started out. > > Anyone on the list tried applying for one? >
Well, I'm on the list so I'm taking the liberty to reply. Yes, I tried to apply to some grants. Sometimes I sent applications for more than one grant, hoping to get one of them. I also received two grant applications: 1. One for XML::RSS cleanup. Here's the final summary: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/05/xmlrss_cleanup_grant_completed.html This grant turned out to be very successful. 2. One for writing a parser for MediaWiki syntax - http://use.perl.org/~Shlomi+Fish/journal/34570 . This was much less successful. While I did start to write a parser, and have some tests code and core modules' code, it still covers only a very small subset of the desired functionality. Add to that that my grant manager has neglected to contact me about the grant often, and it has been heavily neglected. ----------------- Hope it helps. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ I'm not an actor - I just play one on T.V. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
