gtener: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:36, Malcolm Wallace > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> * A GUI interface to Darcs > >> (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17); > > > > I wonder whether darcs ought to apply to be a GSoC mentoring > > organisation in its own right this year? It would be good to attempt to > > get a couple of dedicated slots for darcs only (in addition to any that > > haskell.org may get). > > > >> * Optimization of containers > >> (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1549). Would > >> benefit every Haskell user very quickly. > > > > This was Jamie Brandon's GSoC project last year, and although that is > > not yet in wide use, I suspect there is very little extra effort needed > > to get it out there into the average Haskell user's hands. > > > >> * XMonad compositing support > >> (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1548). > > > > Maybe XMonad should also think about whether to apply to GSoC in their > > own right as a mentoring org? As a project, it seems to have a lot of > > life independent of the Haskell community. > > > > By the way: I think it may be worthwile to contact Google to point out > the recent growth of Haskell community. I don't know on what basis > they assign the slots, but it may be beneficial to do so.
In the past it has been based on scale of mentors, proposals and students. If we're under-allocated, that can sometimes be addressed, however. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
