The name Parrot came from an April Fool's joke which announced a hypothetical language, named Parrot, that would unify Python and Perl [REF].
The Parrot Foundation was created in 2008 to hold the copyright and trademarks of the Parrot project, to help drive development of language implementations and the core codebase, to provide a base for growing the Parrot community, and to reach out to other language communities [REF].