[Haskell & FP in Education] FYI: Haskell.org accepted to Google Summer of Code

[Chris Smith]

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.
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