I have posted a GNU Guix project idea to SciRuby Foundation: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sciruby-dev/CZt75MuUxhg
Basically a student can work on - Add JRuby support to Guix - Add rbx support to Guix - Add all testing frameworks to Guix (e.g. cucumber) - Add all web development frameworks to Guix (e.g. RoR) - Add Sciruby and related modules to Guix - Provide support to Travis-CI (probably through Docker) - Provide general Docker support - Integrate with IRuby notebook and nyaplot Guix has support for containers built-in, so we can even live without Docker. If you are interested, sign up with the SciRuby mailing list (sorry they use Google groups). Also I encourage other packagers to post project ideas to relevant organisations (R, SciPy anyone?). Pj.