The Perl Foundation participates in Google Summer of Code 2020. This page lists project ideas for Perl, Raku and its related projects.

• Perl Open Food Facts architecture and code quality
• Perl DBD::MariaDB Prepared Statements, Async, Test Suite
• Perl PSGI protocol for HTTP::Tiny
• Raku Pod6 rendering on GitHub/GitLab
• Raku Documentation tooling 2.0
• Raku Community modules
• Raku Data analysis library
• Raku Module inspection utility
• Raku gRPC
• Raku Add missing encodings to MoarVM
• Raku Native unsigned integers
• Raku AST Analysis

Each project idea lists the mentors with their contact information at the end.

We encourage you to get in contact with the mentors and the Perl / Raku community as early as possible. Talking with the mentors about the projects you are interested in is the fastest way to get a good understanding of the project. And that is the most important step for a good application and successful project.

If you are a student and have a project idea not listed above, feel free to contact the organization administrators and just ask!

Google offers some very good documentation for Summer of Code. If you haven't already you should really head over to it. Make sure you don't miss

• How it works
• the FAQ
• and the Student Guide

In general the Raku community is most active on IRC. Just drop by on the #raku Freenode channel and say Hello!

If you prefer email, head over to the mailing lists. The perl6-users mailing list is the one you probably want to use.

Here's a list of Perl mailing lists, with this Perl specific list for beginners. Perl has its own IRC hosting site, with this list of channels. #perl-help is the best place for beginners.

• JJ Merelo ([email protected] / GitHub)
• Makoto Nozaki ([email protected])
• Patrick Böker ([email protected] / GitHub)

• 2019

We have a dedicated guide for people interested in mentoring a Perl or Raku project: Perlyglot Mentors Guide.