Re: [Caml-list] GSoC preparedness

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

Thanks for starting this discussion.

I've been considering the idea of preparing an OCaml GSoC application
for Summer 2016. (It's too early to tell but I'm considering
volunteering as a mentor for 2016, while I already know very well that
this would be impossible for 2015.)

The previous effort led by Sylvain Le Gall and Cristophe Troestler was
in 2011. You can find what they collected here:
  https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/gsoc-team/index.php/Main_Page

I will try to collect some nice GSoC ideas for OCaml and add them to
the wiki page.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe the way it works (though I could be wrong) is that an open-source
> organization that signs up is supposed to have projects that concerns its
> codebase or related components. That means either the toolchain or some
> related tool like a debugger or perhaps something like Merlin. Perhaps it
> could even extend to a library that can be shown to be extremely useful to
> the community -- something like Lwt or Batteries.
>
> It would be harder to make the case for something that's purely an
> application on top of OCaml, though I do believe that is possible once an
> organization is more established with GSoC, for example Xen getting Mirage
> into GSoC -- Anil would probably know more about that kind of thing.
>
> Again, I could be wrong about this, so if anyone has better information,
> please correct me.
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> What you've written implies that all projects should regard the OCaml
>> compiler itself. Is that the intention? Or could this support projects using
>> the OCaml language for other purposes? What other purposes? General tools of
>> use to the OCaml community, or just anything that happens to be implemented
>> in OCaml.
>>
>> Thanks for providing a place to collect these ideas.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey everyone
>>>
>>> Another year has gone by, and Google Summer of Code is upon us again.
>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we're ready to participate this year
>>> either (sign up dates for mentoring organizations are Feb 9th to the 20th).
>>> After seeing some comments on reddit, I have taken the liberty of
>>> establishing 2 pages on the ocaml.org wiki:
>>>
>>> - GSoC ideas (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/GSoC-ideas): this
>>> is a list of ideas for projects that students could do. It needs to be
>>> filled up and then maintained, so that by next year at least, we actually
>>> have something to show google.
>>>
>>> - GSoC Application
>>> (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/GSoC-application): a hastily filled
>>> out application covering the questions google expects answered. This should
>>> also be maintained so that it's pretty much ready to go.
>>>
>>> Please fill out these pages as much as you can -- particularly the ideas
>>> page. I haven't listed any project ideas myself, but I tried to write some
>>> guidelines for the kinds of things that could be used as projects.
>>>
>>> -Yotam
>>
>>
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