Hi all, I am glad to report that eight GHC related projects have been selected for this years GSoC. Chitrak Gupta - Help Hadrian - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4778106259243008 Alanas Plascinskas - Depecating Exports - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4906802404130816 Simon Jakobi - HI Haddock - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4975710121230336 Abhiroop Sarkar - SIMD Improvements - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5641742712307712 Ningning Xie - Dependently Typed Core Replacement in GHC - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5851493949767680 Andreas Klebinger - Codegen of Conditional Constructs - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5953351515111424 Shayan Najd - Native-Metaprogramming Reloaded - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6085694691213312 Zubin Duggal - Making GHC Tooling friendly - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6509299262554112 I am sure that some names will already be familiar but please look out for questions and patches from these eight students over the next few months. Looking forward to seeing everyone on the mailing list and in #ghc! Cheers, Matt