Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running
again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again
this year, then we need volunteers:

First,
* suggestions for suitable projects
(in the past this was organised using a reddit)
* an administrator to co-ordinate the application to Google
(I have done it for the last three years but am very willing
to hand on to someone else)

Google will accept applications from organisations in the period 8th -
12th March 2010, approx 1900UTC.

If haskell.org is accepted again, students can apply between 29th
March - 9th April.
More volunteers will be required:

* to review student applications and choose which to accept
* to supervise the accepted students

Both of these roles are called "mentor" in the Google system. Putting
together a good team of mentors before applying as an organisation is
helpful towards us being accepted into the programme.

Regards,
Malcolm

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malcolm.wallace:
> Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running
> again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again
> this year, then we need volunteers:
>
> First,
> * suggestions for suitable projects
> (in the past this was organised using a reddit)
> * an administrator to co-ordinate the application to Google
> (I have done it for the last three years but am very willing
> to hand on to someone else)
>
> Google will accept applications from organisations in the period 8th -
> 12th March 2010, approx 1900UTC.

Here are the top rated Haskell project ideas from reddit:

[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/top/?t=all[/url]

Cafe'ers : Please add more! Vote! Comment!

-- Don
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I would happily participate as a mentor again and I am willing to step up as
administrator if you want to get it off your plate.

-Edward Kmett

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Malcolm Wallace <
[email]malcolm.wallace@cs.york.ac.uk[/email]> wrote:

> Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running
> again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again this
> year, then we need volunteers:
>
> First,
> * suggestions for suitable projects
> (in the past this was organised using a reddit)
> * an administrator to co-ordinate the application to Google
> (I have done it for the last three years but am very willing
> to hand on to someone else)
>
> Google will accept applications from organisations in the period 8th - 12th
> March 2010, approx 1900UTC.
>
> If haskell.org is accepted again, students can apply between 29th March -
> 9th April.
> More volunteers will be required:
>
> * to review student applications and choose which to accept
> * to supervise the accepted students
>
> Both of these roles are called "mentor" in the Google system. Putting
> together a good team of mentors before applying as an organisation is
> helpful towards us being accepted into the programme.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
>
>
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I'd be willing to mentor again. I think it's really important that we think
hard about coming up with projects which improve the core Haskell tool chain
this year.

Cheers,
Johan

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Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running
> again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again
> this year, then we need volunteers:
I'd be happy to mentor again as well. It's important to bear in mind
that the total number of mentors plays a small role in slot allocation,
but far more important is to maximize the amount of high-quality
applications -- the more students we encourage to submit proposals, the
more proposals we will be able to fund:
[url]http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/studentallocations[/url]

Cheers,
Sterl.
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I'd also be happy to mentor. Where is the official place to collect
project ideas? We used trac previously, are we still using it or are
we now on Reddit?

Thanks, Neil

2010/2/1 sterl <s.clover@gmail.com>:
> Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>>
>> Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running again this year. *If haskell.org people would like to take part again this year, then we need volunteers:
>
> I'd be happy to mentor again as well. It's important to bear in mind that the total number of mentors plays a small role in slot allocation, but far more important is to maximize the amount of high-quality applications -- the more students we encourage to submit proposals, the more proposals we will be able to fund: [url]http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/studentallocations[/url]
>
> Cheers,
> Sterl.
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd also be happy to mentor. Where is the official place to collect
> project ideas? We used trac previously, are we still using it or are
> we now on Reddit?


Is there a way to prune the reddit list? Some of the projects (like 'text')
are already done. Also, voting doesn't work well for reddit as we're still
seeing votes from last year.

-- Johan

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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd also be happy to mentor. Where is the official place to collect
>> project ideas? We used trac previously, are we still using it or are
>> we now on Reddit?
>
> Is there a way to prune the reddit list? Some of the projects (like 'text')
> are already done. Also, voting doesn't work well for reddit as we're still
> seeing votes from last year.
> -- Johan

You can prune them personally with 'hide', and I suppose the subreddit
moderator can delete expired entries.

--
gwern
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2010/1/31 Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace@cs.york.ac.uk>:
> Both of these roles are called "mentor" in the Google system. *Putting
> together a good team of mentors before applying as an organisation is
> helpful towards us being accepted into the programme.

Having experienced being a student on the SoC program, I'd be happy to
try my hand at reviewing applications and supervising projects (in
particular, compiler-related ones).

Cheers,
Max
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Hi Gwern,

Please update: "haskell-src-exts -> haskell-src" **Unknown**

This project was an unqualified success. haskell-src-exts is now one
of the most commonly used Haskell libraries, achieved the goals in the
project proposal, and is an essential piece of Haskell infrastructure.
I couldn't be more pleased with how this project turned out.

Thanks, Neil
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