It is that time of year again. The Google Summer of Code is upon us!

Sign Up Information

If you are a student and want to sign up to make $5,000 for hacking on the code you love over the summer or are willing to help out as a mentor, now is the time to act. Please sign up by adding your name to the list at: 

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/People2011

Our main wiki entry for the Summer of Code 2010 is now online:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/Soc2011

If you are interested in applying as a student, here are some guidelines:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/StudApply2011

The official deadline for student applications with Google is April 8th, but if you are interested please add your name to the People2010 page above, as soon as possible.

Interested in helping out, but not sure how?

There are a number of ideas that we've been collecting for projects available through the trac

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/report/1

and which have been collecting over time in a reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/top/

Unfortunately, reddit doesn't let you comment on topics after they become archived, and most of the topics in the haskell_proposals reddit have been.

While the reddit is a great place to discuss proposals, we had to choose one mechanism to supply Google with our ideas officially, so please submit proposals to the trac once you have hashed out something you like to work on, or which would be an appropriately beneficial project for a summer worth of work.

Helping Out Darcs 

Haskell.org is going to continue to act as an umbrella organization covering darcs for the Summer of Code once more. If you are interested in helping them out, they also have a page full of project ideas as well:

http://wiki.darcs.net/GoogleSummerOfCode

Again, please submit proposals as tickets to the trac if you can think of something you'd like to work on.

More Information

Here are a bunch of relevant links that may be able to answer your questions:

Google's Summer of Code Homepage
Google's Summer of Code 2011 FAQ
Google's Summer of Code 2011 Timeline
Google's Summer of Code Wiki Knowledge Base

Of course, you can always feel free to email me or inquire on irc.freenode.net #haskell-soc or with the darcs folks over on #darcs for more information. If you don't have an IRC client, you can get there from: http://webchat.freenode.net

Thank you all very much and we look forward to another successful Summer of Code!

-Edward Kmett