NOTE: This message was originally posted to the subreddit in question (and has been slightly modified), where I was told that I should post the question on haskell-cafe. See http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/847by/ask_relevance_to_go... I'm currently researching the possibility of applying for the Google Summer of Code[1] and (by way of dons's post[2]) have found myself perusing the Haskell Proposals subreddit for project ideas. As an accepted MS CS student, I've spent my undergraduate life annoying professors by using a slew of different programming languages -- most recently, Haskell. While not altogether unfamiliar with the language, I rather doubt (or at least try to honestly question) how useful a contributor I'd be to some of the larger projects that have been posted (e.g., the Immix garbage collector[3] or loop unrolling[4]), despite some of their acceptances as tickets on the Summer of Code Trac[5] and my deep interest in compiler & language theory. There are projects that match other interests of mine and (in my approximation) my experience level, but they also tend to be smaller. For example, the reddit-alike[6] or wiki-embedded Haddock[7]. So, background sap-story notwithstanding, I suppose my general question is: with respect to the aforementioned Summer of Code post, is this subreddit meant to be a place for appropriate SoC projects? It doesn't feel quite like it is, but I would be excited to work on some of those that I indicated. The telltale sign for a project's worthiness seems to be that a ticket is already opened on the Trac that spells out the appropriateness, but this is limiting. More obviously, to test the fitness of a project, should the idea be opened as a ticket for the cursory review of others? Should someone who wants to do Summer of Code work be at any particular level of experience ("dive into GHC's backend" versus "use Haskell to hack on a project")? Intuitively, 1 summer's worth of work could probably be found in any corner of code that meshes with any student's expertise and interests -- even a reddit-alike can actually be a lot of work. But the catch (for me) is that when familiarity is relatively low, it's hard to come up with such ideas. I realize that applications are competitive against other students, so the range of acceptable submissions would depend more on the other applicants, but I think it's also important to address haskell.org's ethos with regards to who they're looking for. If there's a more appropriate place to post this question (ha! singular) I'm more than happy to transplant it. [1] http://code.google.com/soc/ [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7zfog/anybody_done_the_google_s... [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/7wjsc/implement_the_immix... [4] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/7z1uf/implement_loop_unro... [5] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/Soc2009 [6] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/7u48x/a_simple_redditlike... [7] http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/comments/7qnwq/haddock_with_embedd...