From cdsmith at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 05:27:20 2019 From: cdsmith at gmail.com (Chris Smith) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 00:27:20 -0500 Subject: [Haskell & FP in Education] FYI: Haskell.org accepted to Google Summer of Code Message-ID: Hey everyone, You may or may not have seen the news that haskell.org was accepted to Google Summer of Code again this year. This is both a great opportunity for university students to tackle nontrivial projects in Haskell, and a chance to mentor and work with students to build tools for functional programming in education. As maintainer of the CodeWorld project, I've had excellent experiences over the past several years in Summer of Code and Summer of Haskell (the program run by haskell.org in years when they were not accepted to Summer of Code). I'd encourage anyone in the Haskell community who has an active open source education project at any level to think about whether you have the bandwidth and opportunity to mentor student contributors this summer (it is a non-trivial commitment, but even when it hasn't gone great, I've never regretted the time investment), and also to publicize the opportunity to your students at the university level. Details at http://summer.haskell.org. Students start submitting proposals March 25, but successful students have usually spoken to and fleshed out ideas with mentors by the time they submit, so it's good to start working on this early. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: