
Google Summer of Code As many of you will already know, Google is running its "Summer of Code" project again this year, and haskell.org is once again going to apply to be a mentoring organisation. Are you a student who would like to earn money for hacking in Haskell? Or are you a non-student who has a cool idea for a coding project but no time to do it yourself? Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code Add yourself to the list of interested people! There are some ideas still there from last year. Add new ones! Google will start accepting student applications in just over a week's time, but now is the time to start using our own wiki to match up interesting ideas with interested people. The official timeline is as follows: March 12: Mentoring organization application deadline March 14: List of accepted mentoring organizations published March 14: Student application period opens March 24: Student application deadline Interim Period: we review and rank student proposals April 9: List of accepted student applications published Interim Period: Students learn more about their project communities May 28: Students begin coding; Google begins issuing initial payments July 9: Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; July 16: Google begins issuing mid-term payments August 20: Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; August 31: Final evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing final payments Regards, Malcolm

Hi Malcolm,
Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code
It appears that you need to be logged in to edit the page, and I couldn't find/guess any appropriate passwords. How do we log in? Thanks Neil

On 06/03/07, Malcolm Wallace
Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code
We should probably remove projects that were succeessfully completed last year, along with the lists of interested students on every project. -- -David House, dmhouse@gmail.com

David House wrote:
On 06/03/07, Malcolm Wallace
wrote: Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code
We should probably remove projects that were succeessfully completed last year, along with the lists of interested students on every project.
I did some general tidying up in the Trac yesterday, including closing some of the projects that were done last year. I'd urge others to go and take a look too; I didn't do a complete sweep. Cheers, Simon

On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:40 , Simon Marlow wrote:
David House wrote:
Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code We should probably remove projects that were succeessfully completed last year, along with the lists of interested students on every
On 06/03/07, Malcolm Wallace
wrote: project. I did some general tidying up in the Trac yesterday, including closing some of the projects that were done last year. I'd urge others to go and take a look too; I didn't do a complete sweep.
I think that it would be good if we this year would make a short(ish) list of the projects that we think are the most important, and let the students focus on applying for those. My impression from last year is that there were lots of project proposals, most of which could not be considered important enough to be one of the projects we pick, no matter how good the students were who wanted to do them. /Björn

Bjorn Bringert
On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:40 , Simon Marlow wrote:
David House wrote:
Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code We should probably remove projects that were succeessfully completed last year, along with the lists of interested students on every
On 06/03/07, Malcolm Wallace
wrote: project. I did some general tidying up in the Trac yesterday, including closing some of the projects that were done last year. I'd urge others to go and take a look too; I didn't do a complete sweep.
I think that it would be good if we this year would make a short(ish) list of the projects that we think are the most important, and let the students focus on applying for those. My impression from last year is that there were lots of project proposals, most of which could not be considered important enough to be one of the projects we pick, no matter how good the students were who wanted to do them.
I really like this idea. I think we have some strategically important things that people could work on. peace, isaac
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Bjorn Bringert
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David House
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Isaac Jones
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Malcolm Wallace
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Neil Mitchell
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Simon Marlow