Haskell.org is pleased to announce that we received 7 funded student slots from Google for this year's Summer of Code. Of the 30 proposals we received, the mentoring group chose the following 7: * GHC API Improvements by Thomas Schilling, mentored by Simon Marlow * Dynamically Loaded Plugins for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler by Maximilian Conroy Bolingbroke, mentored by Sean Seefried * Haskell API Search as an interface to Hackage by Neil Mitchell, mentored by Niklas Broberg * Language.C, a standalone parser/pretty printer library for C99 by Benedikt Huber, mentored by Iavor S. Diatchki * Cabal 'make-like' dependency framework by Andrea Vezzosi, mentored by Duncan Coutts * #1560 Efficient maps using generalised tries by Jamie Brandon, mentored by Adrian Charles Hey * Data parallel physics engine by Roman Cheplyaka, mentored by Manuel M. T. Chakravarty Slightly fuller details at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/haskell/about.html Congratulations to these students! Before coding begins officially at the end of May, there is a "community bonding period", where the students and community are encouraged to interact and further refine the work that will be done. To those students that did not get funding: do not be disheartened. Almost all of the proposals were good, and we had some difficult choices to make. What's more, since this is Open Source, you can continue to work on your projects anyway! Many of them will be useful to the community. In fact, Google have said that if any GSoC applicant manages (in the judgement of the mentors) to complete their project by the end of the summer, despite not receiving a funded place, they will send you a goodie-bag of Google swag (including a standard Google T-shirt, not the special GSoC one). Regards, Malcolm