Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-06 Thread Kevin Tew
I'm working on distribute places. The first version should hit git later today as racket/place/distributed. The abstraction over places is working pretty well. The abstraction over threads is planned but not started yet. Kevin On 03/05/2012 08:12 PM, Eduardo Bellani wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-05 Thread Eduardo Bellani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 +1 on this. On 03/02/2012 12:34 PM, Ray Racine wrote: > I'd like to see more foundational libraries along the lines of > say. > > - An Actor/Isolate high level message passing library over Places > And Threads. All the necessary low-level primitives

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-05 Thread Nevo
Hi all! I don't quite follow how Racket web app framework has grown for some period, so not sure this may look appropriate as an potential GSoc idea. Currently there's open PaaS platform named cloudfoundry ( www.cloudfoundry.com). It's a real cloud platform and developers could use the supported

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 02:39:20PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote: > An hour and a half ago, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Two parts to this -- the editor, and a message/event/state > > maintenance system. > > > > YOu don't actually *need* a server as long as clients can > > communicate. > > > > Timest

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
An hour and a half ago, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Two parts to this -- the editor, and a message/event/state > maintenance system. > > YOu don't actually *need* a server as long as clients can > communicate. > > Timestamp the messages in an unambiguous fashion, possibly something > like a pair (lo

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:02:27PM -0500, Stephen Bloch wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > > > We are currently putting together an application as a mentoring > > organization for the Google Summer of Code 2012, which is a summer > > program in which Google pays studen

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2012-03-01 23:02:27 -0500, Stephen Bloch wrote: > I don't actually have a github account, but I wanted to mention the following > idea both to current Racket developers and to potential student programmers. > Could somebody add it to the wiki for me? Done. Thanks for the suggestion. Let me k

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Ray Racine
I'd like to see more foundational libraries along the lines of say. - An Actor/Isolate high level message passing library over Places And Threads. All the necessary low-level primitives appear to be in place to do something interesting and powerful here. - Message passing system should suppor

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
A few minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: > FWIW, what I had in mind is something lower-tech where we rely on > the users doing the shared editing to help us out when conflicts > happen (perhaps coordinating via chat, perhaps using a token they > explicitly pass around or something). The problem wit

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Robby Findler
FWIW, what I had in mind is something lower-tech where we rely on the users doing the shared editing to help us out when conflicts happen (perhaps coordinating via chat, perhaps using a token they explicitly pass around or something). Robby On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 9

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Eli Barzilay
9 hours ago, Stephen Bloch wrote: > > I don't actually have a github account, but I wanted to mention the > following idea both to current Racket developers and to potential > student programmers. Could somebody add it to the wiki for me? > > Summary: a DrRacket plug-in to enable real-time colla

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Robby Findler
I would be happy to be a mentor for that one. It is a good project for GSoC, I think. Robby On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Stephen Bloch wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > >> We are currently putting together an application as a mentoring >> organization for the Goo

Re: [racket] Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas

2012-03-02 Thread Stephen Bloch
On Mar 1, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > We are currently putting together an application as a mentoring > organization for the Google Summer of Code 2012, which is a summer > program in which Google pays students to work on open source/free > software projects. > > As part of the app