On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:04:29PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the inaugural Perl 6 Microgrants program. > Best Practical Solutions (my company) has donated USD5,000 to The > Perl Foundation to help support Perl 6 Development. Leon Brocard, > representing The Perl Foundation's grants committee, will work with > me to select proposals and evaluate project success. We'll be making > USD500 grants to worthy Perl 6 related efforts. We're hoping to fund > a range of Perl 6-related projects over the life of the grant > program. Accepted grants might be for coding, documentation, testing > or even writing articles about Perl 6. The program isn't tied to any > one implementation of Perl 6 -- We're interested in seeing proposals > related to Pugs, Perl 6 on Parrot, Perl 6 on Perl 5 or any other Perl > 6 implementation. Generally, we're interested in seeing projects > that can be completed in 4-6 calendar weeks. > > Submitting a grant proposal > --------------------------- > > To submit a grant proposal, please email us at perl6- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following information: > > * A two to three paragraph summary of the work you intend to do > * A quick bio - Who are you? Is there opensource work you've done > that we should have a look at? > * A brief description of what "success" will mean for your project - > How will we know you're done? > * Where (if anywhere) you've discussed your project in the past > * Where you'll be blogging about your progress. (Twice-weekly blog > posts are a requirement for getting your grant money) > > We'll be accepting proposals on a rolling schedule. We expect to pay > out these first 10 grants over the course of the summer. Depending on > how things go, we'll then either find more money for more grant > programs or we'll wind up the program and move on to other endeavors. > > We're really excited to get rolling. Submit your proposals early and > often. Don't let somebody else beat you to the punch ;)
I'd like to suggest an idea for *someone else* to submit a proposal for: As part of the work on DBI2 I want to create a Perl API that closely matches the JDBC API. I need a tool that can parse the java .h files that that define the JDBC API, e.g., http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libjava/java/sql/Statement.h?revision=120621&view=markup and generate roughly equivalent Perl 6 (roles etc). Some knowledge of Java would be helpful to get a reasonable initial mapping of concepts from Java to Perl, but that's bound to evolve over time - hence the need for a tool to do, and redo, the translation. [ I'd probably then use the tool to also generate implementation code that bridges the Perl6 JDBC with the Perl5 JDBC module on CPAN. That would give Perl6 a working JDBC API. (The next step might be to parse the Java code of the JDBC test suite and translate that to Perl6...) ] There are two parts to this: a Java parser (good enough for at least the JDBC .h files), and a Perl6 code (role) generator. They could be combined, but I'd like the Java parser to be reusable by others. Here's a related idea: write a tool that reads BNF grammar, such as http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/syntax.html http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/grammars.html and writes a parser in Perl 6 for that grammar. Anyone interested in those ideas? Tim. p.s. The .h files for JDBC can be found here http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libjava/java/sql/ http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libjava/javax/sql/ p.p.s. The funding for these could come from the DBI Development fund (which hasn't been used for anything yet) and so not impact the donation from Best Practical Solutions.
