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MetaCPAN is the search engine for Perl — used by thousands of developers every day to find, understand, and evaluate CPAN modules. We're a volunteer-run open source project and we also host infrastructure for other Perl Toolchain projects.
We rely on sponsors and donations to keep everything running. We use OpenCollective to manage contributions — please donate if you can. Regular contributions help us budget, but any amount makes a difference.
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Our Sponsors
These companies help keep MetaCPAN running.
Bytemark Hosting is the UK's "geek hosting outfit of choice" because its programmer & network-engineer team have built it that way since 2002, with their own tools, software and technical expertise. They understand web applications and network infrastructure equally, and host names such as Bostik, dopplr.com and Britain's largest mystery shopping company, Retail Eyes. Their hosting starts at only £15 per month and runs to multi-site managed setups for customers with the fussiest demands of reliability and failover.
Datadog supports MetaCPAN by providing monitoring and log analysis.
Deriv is one of the world's largest online brokers. Deriv offers CFDs and other derivatives on forex, indices, cryptocurrencies, commodities, and synthetics to millions of registered users across the globe.
More than that, Deriv heavily relies on CPAN (and bring back a lot to it in return!) with its backend code being written in modern Perl and some great names being part of the company.
Elastic is the company behind the Elasticsearch open source search and analytics engine, along with Logstash, Kibana (which lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data), and Beats (lightweight agents for sending data to Logstash or Elasticsearch).
Fastly provides us CDN services, so we are faster around the world.
Geolytica -- Ground truth at the speed of life. A DaaS and SaaS company offering places data and geocoding based on geo data from the open web. We've used Perl since 2004 and still do at over 50% of our codebase.
iban.com provides enterprise-grade Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for payment validation, Verification of Payee (VoP), and data retrieval, including comprehensive services for validating International Bank Account Numbers (IBAN), Bank Identifier Codes (BIC), and other global banking details. They offer an easy-to-integrate API to help businesses reduce failed payments and associated bank charges.
Liquid Web Inc. is a privately held, managed web hosting company founded in 1997. The company owns and operates three data center facilities located in Lansing, Michigan in addition to having a software development office and a data center in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. In 2014, the company also launched development space in Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as extending hosting operations to Europe (attaining space in Amsterdam, NL). It has established itself as a leader in the professional web hosting market with an unwavering dedication to providing the best hosting products customer service available. With a client-base that spans beyond 120 countries, the company has assembled a world class Heroic Support staff and a proactive Sonar Server Monitoring team, professionally educated and easily accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The rapidly expanding web host has been recognized amongst INC Magazine's 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for eight consecutive years, beginning in 2007.
OpenCage operates a highly-available, enterprise level geocoding API based on open data sources like OpenStreetMap. Need geocoding? Visit OpenCage's comprehensive geocoding buyer's guide. OpenCage uses Perl extensively, and is proud to have sponsored MetaCPAN for many years.
The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) has supported MetaCPAN in many ways over the years, including covering disk space costs, sponsoring MetaCPAN's participation in the Outreach Program for Women in 2014, and funding a year of managed hosting support through Digital Craftsmen.
Our Supporters
These organizations also contribute to MetaCPAN.
1Password provides free team accounts for open source projects.
Fastmail is a commercial hosted email service founded in 1999, which has established a reputation for technical leadership in the hosted email space, with a focus on security, privacy, and reliability. It is run by Fastmail Pty Ltd, an Australian company based in Melbourne. From their early days they've been users and supporters of Perl, and several of their developers are CPAN authors: BRONG, ROBN, RJBS, WOLFSAGE and ROBM (one of the founders). In late 2015 they acquired pobox.com, another hosted mail company and longtime user and supporter of Perl.
GitHub provides free organization accounts for open source projects.
mySociety is a not for profit group pioneering the use of online technologies to empower citizens to take their first steps towards greater civic participation. We work across four interlinked practice areas: Transparency, Democracy, Climate and Community, each underpinned by research, sector building through TICTeC and appropriate commercial work via SocietyWorks.
Past Sponsors
We are also grateful to our past sponsors who have supported MetaCPAN over the years.