From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7ECBC0B for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:26:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.janestcapital.com (www.janestcapital.com [66.155.124.107]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0PKQD89010710 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:26:14 +0100 Received: from [192.168.250.206] [209.213.205.130] by janestcapital.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-9.10) id A2641094; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:26:12 -0500 Message-ID: <45B91263.4010800@janestcapital.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:26:11 -0500 From: "Yaron M. Minsky" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: The OCaml Summer Project References: <45B8E03F.7040802@janestcapital.com> In-Reply-To: <45B8E03F.7040802@janestcapital.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45B91265.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 ocaml:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 ocaml:01 encouraging:01 succesfully:01 encouraging:01 functioning:98 2007.:98 wrote:01 functional:02 silently:02 One quick follow-up: the email address I gave was actually not functioning at all until about 10 minutes ago, and all messages sent to it have been silently eaten by our spam-filter. I apologize. Emails should go through now. y Yaron M. Minsky wrote: > I am pleased to announce the OCaml Summer Project. The project is aimed > at encouraging growth in the OCaml community by funding students over > the summer to work on open-source projects in OCaml. At the end of the > summer, we will fly all of the students who have completed their > projects succesfully out for a meeting in New York, where people will > present their projects and get a chance to shmooze with other members of > the OCaml community. > > The project is being funded and run by Jane Street Capital. As people on > the list likely know at this point, we make extensive use of OCaml here > at Jane Street, and are excited about the idea of encouraging and > growing the OCaml community. > > If you'd like to learn more about the project, you can look at our > website here: > > http://osp2007.janestcapital.com > > We'd love to have professors tell their students about the project, > since we hope it will do some real good in terms of increasing interest > in functional programming. > > Please direct any questions or suggestions you have to > osp@janestcapital.com. > > y > > (p.s., we had a few DNS problems over the last day or so, so if you have > trouble reaching the site, it should get resolved when caches expire > later today.) >