Re: [Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code 2012 Announced

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

 2. Advertise the projects on haskell-cafe, reddit, twitter, Google+

Does anyone know if the GSOC trac is in use this year? (or will be?). I started advocating for an extension to cabal to specify Setup.hs build dependencies last year, with this ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1602 I think the idea still has merit :) If anyone has comments, that would be a great place to put them (to clarify anything I've overlooked, point out shortcomings, suggest implementations, etc...). --Rogan

 3. Profit.

* The students tend to not know what makes a good GSoC project and often aim for something too difficult, like writing a new project from scratch instead of contributing to an old one. Contributing to widely used libraries or infrastructure usually results in

 * a larger benefit for the community, and  * the students sticking around.

My guess is that the student tend to stick around after the project is done if they contribute to infrastructure projects, as they'll see their stuff get used and will get feature requests/bug reports that will make them continue working on the project.

-- Johan

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carol Smith Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM Subject: Google Summer of Code 2012 Announced To: Google Summer of Code Announce

Hi all,

We're pleased to announce that Google Summer of Code will be happening for its eighth year this year. Please check out the blog post [1] about the program and read the FAQs [2] and Timeline [3] on Melange for more information.

[1] - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-summer-of-code-2012-is-... [2] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc201... [3] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012

Cheers, Carol

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