Re: [Caml-list] GSoC preparedness

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>]

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My experience with GSoC is that they look for a combination of breadth and preparedness, as well as selecting a few smaller organisations that are different every year.  I prefer mentoring in these internship programs for projects that use OCaml as a means rather than an end, as the language will improve just by more people using its ecosystem and tools.  It's usually counterproductive to expect interns to dive in and fix core compiler bugs, whereas a larger percentage could very valuably get started on things like OPAM, js_of_ocaml or Mirage.

Mirage/Xen will definitely be putting in an application this year again, and anyone interested in doing an OCaml related project is very welcome to mail me a suggestion or add it directly to:
https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects <https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects>

It would be great to see an OCaml application as well, of course, although it might be time better spent organising a page that is maintained on an ongoing basis rather than just for the purposes of GSoC.

best,
Anil

> On 6 Feb 2015, at 15:51, Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Again, I could be wrong about this, so if anyone has better information, please correct me.
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> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com <mailto: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.
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> Thanks for providing a place to collect these ideas.
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> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com <mailto: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 <http://ocaml.org/> wiki:
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> - GSoC ideas (https://github.com/ocaml/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.
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> - GSoC Application (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/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.
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> 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.
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> -Yotam
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