The Google Summer of Code will be running again this year. Once again, haskell.org has the opportunity to bid to become a mentoring organisation. (Although, as always, there is no guarantee of acceptance.)
Google is now accepting applications:
Indeed. Since I am (perhaps by default) the GSoC org admin for haskell.org once again this year, and will shortly need to list our mentors on our application form, I am now soliciting volunteers to be mentors. Please email me directly. The mentoring group has two main jobs: * To look after students and their projects if/when they are accepted. If you have suggested, or feel strongly about, or have experience relevant to a particular project (currently on the trac[1], or reddit[2] - if not, then add it!), please consider volunteering to mentor it. This requires a commitment of maybe up to five hours a week (but often less) during the student coding phase (23rd May - 17th Aug). Having multiple mentors for a single project area is no problem - it just means more backup for students. * To review and rank student proposals. This requires a commitment of several hours across the review period (roughly 23rd March - 15th April), and also some enthusiasm for generally promoting projects that will benefit the Haskell community as a whole. The reviewers include all those who are willing to look after students for the summer. Of course there is no guarantee that your project will actually get student participation, but if you don't play at this stage, you definitely won't get one! Regards, Malcolm [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/