June 30, 2005 - Google Summer of Code Projects Announced

The Perl Foundation is proud to announce 8 funded projects under Google Inc's Summer of Code program.

Name: Curtis Rawls
Title: Compiler/Optimizer Improvements to Parrot

Name: Josh McAdams
Title: BitTorrent Peer Library For Perl

Name: Brent Royal-Gordon
Title: WWW:Kontent - A Perl 6 Content Management System

Name: Curtis Hall
Title: Refactor Pirate so that the intermediate code emitter is
independent of the Python parse tree (AST).

Name: David Buchman
Title: Perl "Megadistro"

Name: David Rusek
Title: Open Sourcing Perl/Java Integration

Name: Gary Jackson
Title: Extended Type Inference System for Perl 5

Name: Alexandre Buisse
Title: A Generational, Thread-Aware GC for Parrot

Further details on each of these projects will be forthcoming shortly.

All projects will be carried out during July-August 2005, with mentors from the Perl community providing technical assistance.