Malcolm.Wallace:

Gentle Haskellers,

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.)

If you have ideas for student projects that you think would benefit the Haskell community, now is the time to start discussing them on mailing lists of your choice. We especially encourage students to communicate with the wider community: if you keep your ideas private, you have a much worse chance of acceptance than if you develop ideas in collaboration with those who will be your "customers", end-users, or fellow-developers. This is the open-source world!

And I'll just note that since December we've been running a proposal submission site here, where you can vote and comment on ideas, http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/top/ A great place to suggest ideas! -- Don