On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 16:40 +0000, Ian Price wrote: > Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes: > > > Hello. I'm pleased to announce the upcoming Guile 100 Programs > > Project. > > > > The Guile 100 Programs Project is an opportunity to show off your > > Guile skills in exchange for a small honorarium. > > > > Each week, on Monday, I'll announce a coding project and ask for > > volunteers. On Wednesday, a volunteer will be chosen at random from > > all entrants. The volunteer will have two weeks to complete the task. > > If judged to have completed the task correctly, he or she will receive > > a honorarium of 100 USD. > > > > The task will either be a Scheme script, a bug fix on an existing > > project, or a C code with Guile bindings. > > Cool idea. The Guile community is kinda small, and so it'd be nice to > see some of our quieter members incentivised to hack more openly. > > > The first two tasks to be announced will likely be > > > > Mar 11, 2013 - Implement a version of the commands `cat' and > > `echo' in Scheme. > > > > Mar 18, 2013 - Implement a reduced functionality version of the > > command `ls' in Scheme. > > Heh, reimplementing coreutils in Scheme has been a plan of mine for a > while, as part of justifying my Iteratees library, but that has taken a > sideline to newer and shinier projects. >
Maybe another new project, say, rewrite GNU with Guile, include part of HURD, heh? I even get the name, GoG, GNU on Guile. ;-P
