• 2011.10.14 in #12 TPF 2011Q4: Call for Grant Proposals
  Alberto Simões announced the call for proposals of The Perl Foundation grant committee. The dead-line is 15 of November.
• 2012.02.04 in #28 2012Q1 Grant Proposals
  Alberto Simões announced 3 grant proposals that were submitted to TPF. Please check them and comment on them.
• 2012.05.03 in #41 2012Q2 Grant Proposals
  Alberto Simoes publish The Perl Foundation grant proposals. They are waiting for your feedback!
• 2012.06.03 in #45 Stealing from Python
  Alberto Simoes brings up some language constructs and built-in subroutines from Python that he would like to see in Perl.
• 2012.08.21 in #57 Building C and C++ libraries with Perl
  I am not sure why the harsh words - people can make mistakes - but the linked article is useful.
• 2012.08.24 in #57 YAPC::EU::2012, what I missed
  Alberto Simoes seemed to have a bad day. Or three.
• 2012.08.27 in #58 YAPC::EU::2012, the good parts
  by Alberto Simoes
• 2012.10.26 in #66 PtPW 2012 recorded in Video
  If you are interested in improving your Portuguese, there is a good opportunity for doing so with the presentation recorded at the Portuguese Perl Workshop.
• 2013.02.11 in #82 About the Grants Committee
  Alberto Simões reports that, and wonders why, there has been no grant proposal submited to the Perl Foundation in the last six months.
• 2013.03.31 in #88 2013Q2 Call for Grant Proposals
  Alberto Simoes called for a the new round of grant proposals. In case you have ideas for projects, but don't have time to do them, you can add them in the comment section allowing people with time, but without projects to submit grant proposals.
• 2014.10.17 in #169 Language Identification, Neural Networks and Perl
  Alberto Simões has published a module related to a not yet published article. The module, Lingua::Identifier can be already found on CPAN.
• 2015.03.08 in #189 CPAN PR-Challenge: March Report #2
  Alberto describes his work for a PR on Exobrain. I've added one idea to our central ideas list: check whether any of the dependencies should have a minimum version specified. I was bitten by this issue just this week — easy to do if you regularly upgrade your Perl and re-install CPAN.
• 2015.05.23 in #200 CPAN PR-Challenge: May Report
  A short not on his progress. I wish more people were blogging about what they have been doing in the CPAN PRC.
• 2015.09.14 in #217 Ressurrecting Perl.pt
  Prompted by YAPC::EU, the Portuguese Perl Mongers now have a new web site, which is generated by Perl 6.
• 2016.01.29 in #236 Grant Report: Test::Simple/Stream Stabilization
  Looks like Test::More and friends are close to being upgraded to a newer engine.
• 2016.03.17 in #243 PRC 2016 - First Three Months
  A very personal report from Alberto, about the first three months of 2016, with respect to the Pull Request Challenge, but also life.
• 2016.05.14 in #251 Test-Simple + Test-Stream (now Test2) grant complete
  Test2 has been delivered, and this is the associated report that went back to the Perl Fundation.
• 2016.07.04 in #259 PRC 2016 - Second Trimester
  In which Alberto expresses his disappointment for having almost no response for his pull requests. The talk about drive-through contributions was mentioned in a comment.
• 2016.09.27 in #271 PRC 2016 - Third Trimester
  Apparently the Pull Request Challenge is still going on, we just rarely hear about it. Thank to Alberto we can take a peek into his contributions to Algorithm-GooglePolylineEncoding, Module::Install, and Catalyst::Controller::Validation::DFV.
• 2017.05.03 in #302 Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report
  Chad Granun has made a brief progress report on the Test2 documentation.
• 2017.10 in #327 Grant Update: Test2 Manual by Chad Granum
  
• 2017.11.22 in #331 Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report
  Alberto passes on an update from Chad, for his work on Test2, being done under a TPD grant.
• 2019.04.17 in #404 Arango::DB
  Alberto shares the history of module Arango::DB.
• 2023.12.06 in #646 Day 6: Arango::Tango, the new mammal in town
  

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