Hi, I have a handful of projects (steadily increasing) lined up for GSoC 2014. Of course at this stage they haven't been accepted, since student allocations are still a few weeks away, however there are enthusiastic students waiting in the wings.
I would be grateful for help mentoring these projects. I'm looking for mentors who have a good history of Clojure involvement, and/or relevant experience in the project areas. I'm looking for 2-3 mentors per project, including myself. GSoC provides $500US per student/project for mentors, which will be split evenly between them. There's a trail of information about mentoring here<http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Google+Summer+of+Code+2014#GoogleSummerofCode2014-Mentors>. The timeline for this year is here<https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014>. About 1-5 hours a week is needed during the project period (May-August). If you're interested, you can do one of: - email me - respond to this post - request to be a Clojure mentor on Melange<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014>, noting which project you're interested in GSoC FAQ<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page> Here's a brief summary of the projects lined up (with students). Note the mentor requirements indicate what the mentor should know by May, when the project starts proper. Dynalint: Improved runtime errors and identification of undefined behaviour for Clojure and ClojureScript Goals - extend Dynalint - get it working on ClojureScript and extend Required for mentor - Familiar with most standard Clojure idioms - Familiarity with Clojure standard library Typed Clojure Beginner Tutorial, Annotations & Error Messages Goals - small tutorial for core.typed - annotations for external libraries - work on identifying bad error messages in core.typed + improvements Required for mentor - experience with or willing to learn basics of Typed Clojure, enough to observe the student's progress Typed Clojure Core Annotations Goals - annotate all remaining namespaces included in the Clojure jar Required for mentor - Familiarity with Clojure's core library - basic Typed Clojure knowledge (how to annotate and check some namespaces) Typed Clojure: Heterogeneous operations & Dotted Polymorphism Goals - extend and improve Clojure's heterogeneous operations eg. assoc-in/update-in - express heterogeneous operations on the type level eg. Assoc, Merge, Dissoc - extend dotted polymorphism to handle the common pattern "variable arguments increase by 2" (like assoc) Required for mentor - Good knowledge on the heterogeneous operations Typed Clojure currently provides (not particularly internals) - Familiarity with local type inference<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/lti.pdf> - Familiarity with dotted polymorphism<http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/esop09-sthf.pdf>(like the type for clojure.core/map) Typed Clojure: Occurrence Typing Goals - improve on the existing occurrence typing implementation - better proposition compacting - implement "aliasing" propositions (these two local bindings are aliased, therefore they have the same type) - investigate how paths interact with aliases (bindings `a` and `b` are aliased, we update `a` via (number? (-> a :a :b :c)), we now should update `b`) Required for mentor - Familiarity with occurrence typing<http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp10-thf.pdf> - Familiarity with local type inference<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/lti.pdf> Typed ClojureScript Annotations Goals - annotate core ClojureScript libraries - annotate some external libraries Required for mentor - Familiarity with Typed Clojure types - Familiarity with ClojureScript, the core libraries and idioms Typed ClojureScript Implementation Goals - a useful implementation of Typed ClojureScript Required for mentor - Familiarity of Clojure & ClojureScript - Familiarity with ClojureScript compiler/analyzer - Some experience with static analysis ---------------------------------- Please get in touch if you need more information. Thanks, Ambrose -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
