Perl Weekly #644 - Perl Sponsor?
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Published: 2023-11-27 08:09:23

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Originally published at [Perl Weekly 644](https://perlweekly.com/archive/644.html)


Hi there,

<strong>Do you or your company sponsor Perl directly or indirectly?</strong>

As we all know, <a href="https://www.perlfoundation.org">The Perl and Raku Foundation</a>, is the parent organisation responsible for the development of <strong>Perl</strong> and <strong>Raku</strong> programming languages. They are also the single point of contact for any donations, whether individual or corporate. Without a doubt they are doing great service promoting <strong>Perl</strong> and <strong>Raku</strong> programming languages. I have personally seen how they support annual conferences around the globe.

<strong>Why am I talking about it today?</strong>

I run <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org">The Weekly Challenge</a> project primarily focus on <strong>Perl</strong> and <strong>Raku</strong> but open to all programming languages. It was started on <strong>25th March 2019</strong>. It has been going on un-interrupted ever since, thanks to the strong <strong>350+</strong> members of <strong>Team PWC</strong>. We were lucky enough to have solo sponsor, <a href="https://perl.careers">Perl Careers</a> run by <strong>Peter Sergeant</strong> since <strong>July 2019</strong> without break. Initially we had weekly prize sponsorship but later it was changed to monthly sponsorship. The best part was, I didn't have to move a finger to find the sponsor. <strong>Pete</strong> was generous enough to come forward and continued supporting the project for such a long time.

<strong>Is it time to look for new sponsor?</strong>

Well, we are not expensive to sponsor, honestly speaking. The prize money has been <strong>50 USD</strong> since the beginning. Although I have been looking for new sponsors for sometime but never done anything about it. It is just not my cup of tea. Because of this, I put the code move on hold for such a long time. Ideally I wanted to move the code base to pure <strong>Perl</strong> solution instead of currently <strong>Hugo</strong> which is based on <strong>Go</strong>. I also wanted to move away from <strong>GitHub pages</strong> hosted solution to a proper hosted solution that we can manage ourself. I could have requested <strong>TPRF</strong> for financial help but again I am not competent enough to make formal request. As we are growing very fast every week, it is getting out of hand to manage the contributions by the team member. <strong>GitHub</strong> takes lot longer to process the data as some of the team member complained about it too. I wish we had our own repository to manage the contributions.

<strong>Any help or suggestions are most welcome.</strong>

Last but not the least, please do remember all those affected by the recent conflicts in your daily prayer. Enjoy rest of the newsletter.

  --
  Your editor: Mohammad S. Anwar.


## Announcements

  
### [This Week in PSC (124)](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/11/this-week-in-psc-124.html)

Please checkout the weekly update by Perl Steering Council.

  
### [This week in PSC (125)](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/11/this-week-in-psc-125-2023-11-23.html)

Bonus updates, two in a week, thank you Perl Steering Council.

  
### [German Perl/Raku Workshop 2024](https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2023/11/german-perlraku-workshop-2024.html)

Official announcement to submit papers for GPRW 2024.

  

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## Articles

  
### [Turn off tainting in brewed Perl](https://www.hodgkinson.org/2023/11/21/turn-of-tainting-in-brewed-perl/)

Have you played with tainting on/off? Nice discussion how Perl behaves in each scenario.

  
### [An Option for Syntax Highlighting on blogs.perl.org](https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2023/11/an-option-for-syntax-highlighting-on-blogsperlorg.html)

Fun work if you are frequent blogger on bpo.

  
### [Curated list of Perl modules](https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2023/11/curated-list-of-perl-modules.html)

One of the many great CPAN Testers, Ron, shared the curated list of Perl modules.

  

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## The Weekly Challenge
<a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/">The Weekly Challenge</a> by <a href="http://www.manwar.org/">Mohammad Anwar</a> will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of <a href="https://perl.careers/">PerlCareers</a>.
  
### [The Weekly Challenge - 245](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-245)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks: "Sort Language" and "Largest of Three". If you are new to the weekly challenge, why not join us and have fun every week? For more information, please read the <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/faq">FAQ</a>.

  
### [RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 244](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/recap-challenge-244)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Count Smaller" and "Group Hero" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

  
### [Counting the Smallest Embiggens the Group Hero](http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/perl/2023/11/26)

Clever use of map and grep to get the desired result. Well done and thanks for sharing.

  
### [244](https://deadmarshal.blogspot.com/2023/11/twc244.html)

Very compact and cute solutions. You must check it out. Thanks for your contributions.

  
### [The Smaller Hero](https://raku-musings.com/smaller-hero.html)

Quality post with the most creative title every week. Keep it up great work.

  
### [Let me count the ways](https://dev.to/boblied/let-me-count-the-ways-pwc-244-count-smaller-583l)

So many variations and ideas. Plenty to keep you all busy. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day](https://jacoby.github.io/2023/11/20/we-can-be-heroes-just-for-one-day-weekly-challenge-244.html)

Thanks for reviewing CPAN module and sharing the details. Keep it up and well done.

  
### [And then a hero comes along](https://github.com/manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club/tree/master/challenge-244/ianrifkin#readme)

Bloggng style is 2 way communication and I love it. Well done.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 244](https://www.braincells.com/perl/2023/11/perl_weekly_challenge_week_244.html)

Raku one-liner, very impressive. Please keep us entertained every week.

  
### [Smaller Heroes](https://github.com/manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club/blob/master/challenge-244/jo-37/blog/Blog.md)

In depth analysis and discussed solutions. Highly recommended.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 244: Count Smaller](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-244-count-smaller.html)

Simple and straight forward solutions both in Perl and Raku, no gimmicks. Thank you.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 244: Group Hero](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-244-group-hero.html)

Showing off the power of Raku built-in features. Perl is not far off either. Well balanced solutions. Keep it up great work.

  
### [THE WEEKLY CHALLENGE - 244](https://egroup.kolouch.org/nextcloud/sites/lubos/2023-11-20_Weekly_challenge_244)

Love the innocent comparison of Perl and Python. Well done.

  
### [grep and filter everywhere!](https://fluca1978.github.io/2023/11/20/PerlWeeklyChallenge244.html)

Compact solutions in Raku and bonus in Python too. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 244](https://wlmb.github.io/2023/11/20/PWC244/)

Use of CPAN module is clever move to get a compact solution. Well done.

  
### [Count… just a little bit smaller…](https://packy.dardan.com/2023/11/20/perl-weekly-challenge-count-just-a-little-bit-smaller/)

Musical background to this week solution. Very interesting, keep it up.

  
### [The smallest hero](http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge)

Scalable and Do It Yourself styled solutions. Great effort, keep it up.

  
### [The Weekly Challenge #244](https://hatley-software.blogspot.com/2023/11/robbie-hatleys-solutions-to-weekly_24.html)

Clever approach to solve the task. You must checkout yourself.

  
### [Counting Your Heroes](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2023/11/The_Weekly_Challenge_244__Counting_Your_Heroes.html)

Rust is very impressive, I must admit. You should check it out yourself. Highly recommended.

  
### [Weekly Challenge 244](https://dev.to/simongreennet/weekly-challenge-244-jim)

This is incredible, one-liner in Python. Simply the best. Thanks for sharing.

  

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## Rakudo

  
### [2023.47 FOSDEM devving](https://rakudoweekly.blog/2023/11/21/2023-47-fosdem-devving/)



  

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## Weekly collections

  
### [NICEPERL's lists](http://niceperl.blogspot.com/)

<a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2023/11/cdlxxi-17-great-cpan-modules-released.html">Great CPAN modules released last week</a>;<br><a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2023/11/dxcix-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.

  

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## The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
  
### [Starting the Site Checker project](https://site-checker.code-maven.com/starting-the-project)

The <a href="https://site-checker.code-maven.com/">site checker</a> is a new project of mine. If you have a web site, let me know what would you need to make this useful for you!

  
### [First version of the Code Maven Static Site Generator](https://ssg.code-maven.com/first-version)

I've started to rewrite the code behind the Perl Maven and Code Maven sites to be a static site generator.

  
### [Rust Maven](https://rust.code-maven.com/)

The Rust Maven web site contains all the new Rust-related articles and Rust-related slides. If you are interested in Rust sign up to my <a href="https://rust.code-maven.com/subscribe">newsletter</a>!

  

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## <a href="https://perl.careers/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly">Perl Jobs by Perl Careers</a>

  
### [Perl Programmer Opportunity - Join a Prominent Tech Publishing Powerhouse in the Philippines](https://job.perl.careers/71g)

Our UK-based client is a global leader in the enterprise technology publishing industry, providing audiences worldwide with stimulating perspectives and unique news on enterprise tech that matters today and tomorrow. They are currently seeking a passionate and exceptional Perl programmer based in the Philippines to join their team.

  
### [Adventure Awaits! Senior Perl roles in Malaysia, Dubai and Malta](https://job.perl.careers/57v)

Clever folks know that if you’re lucky, you can earn a living and have an adventure at the same time. Enter our international client: online trading is their game, and they’re looking for Perl People with passion, drive, and an appreciation for new experiences.

  

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