Eric Wilhelm writes: The Perl Foundation is participating in Google Summer of Code 2010 and will begin accepting applications from students on the 29th.
Piers Cawley talks about why he's back to programming in Perl after spending five years working with other languages.
Jesse Vincent writes that the final development release of Perl 5.11.3 before the freeze has been made generally available.
Schwern has completed gitPAN, the complete CPAN archive onto github. Now you can access anything in CPAN in all it's gory/beautiful detail!
In case you hadn't noticed Perl has quite a tradition of running web advent calendars. This year we are blessed with quite a few. Have a look and enjoy with Mince Tarts...
A new site has launched for Perl hackers to blog about Perl and related things - blogs.perl.org. It's great to see a modern-looking blogging platform site for the Perl community, which has been stuck with the mid-90s design of use.perl until now. As well as a nice clean design, the new site also offers some useful features that are missing on use.perl, such as syntax-highlighting for code blocks, and embedding of images into posts. Hopefully people will shift to the new site quickly, and eventually Google results for random Perl-related searches will end up on a site that gives a better impression of the Perl community.
Ranguard writes: Well, it's taken me 6 weeks of evenings and the odd weekend, but I'm proud to say the new www.perl.org site has just gone live. This is a complete redesign and content review. Hopefully it's cleaner and easier for people to actually get the information they are after.
From Gabor Szabo: Padre 0.50 Released. I am happy to announce this round version number of Padre (the Perl IDE). Does that mean we are half-way to the 1.0 release? Will people think that a 1.00 release can't be good so they need to wait for the 2.03 release to start using Padre? We'll see if we need to play with version numbers to communicate something or if we can just steadily increase at every release.