by Karen Pauley

It provides a full-time internship for someone in an underrepresented group to work on one of the projects listed on the information page. Application dead line is October 17th.

by Mark Fowler (MARKF)

It's never too early to start preparations!

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

Under the hood BooK talks about the various Git-related modules he wrote.

by Randal Schwartz (MERLYN)

Also the most prolific author of Perl books. (If you are already on that page, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast!)

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

by Alberto Simões (AMBS)

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.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

If you sign up and create 4 pull-request, you can get a cool T-shirt.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

What is it and how to label all of your GitHub projects for Hacktoberfest? It is easy. brian provides the Perl script for it.

by Marc Lehmann (MLEHMANN)

Including Leftpad.

by Jonathan "Duke" Leto (LETO)

As Jonathan wrote me: Many people have been waiting for this for over a year.

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

Oalders is picking up modules related to libwww-perl, including WWW::Mechanize. He uses github-mergevelocity to see how quickly pull-request have been merged and is encouraging all of us to help. So go and help him!

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

Plack 1.0041 has been released to CPAN. This release includes a breaking change in 1.0040, which was a bug fix to swap the meaning of %D and %T in access_log format. Since it is a popular middleware and in fact enabled in many environments, you have to make sure you put the right value before upgrading it.

by Dave Mitchell

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

Running Bash or Ubuntu on Windows is a nice new feature. Running Perl on top of it might be challenging.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

by Carl Mäsak

by Bryan St. Amour

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great modules released last week;
MetaCPAN weekly report;
StackOverflow Perl report.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

3-5 min lightning talk? 20 min? 50 min?