[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Google summer of code

[Isaac Jones]

Bjorn Bringert <bringert at cs.chalmers.se> writes:

> On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:40 , Simon Marlow wrote:
>
>> David House wrote:
>>> On 06/03/07, Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again:
>>>>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code
>>> We should probably remove projects that were succeessfully completed
>>> last year, along with the lists of interested students on every
>>> project.
>>
>> I did some general tidying up in the Trac yesterday, including
>> closing some of the projects that were done last year.  I'd urge
>> others to go and take a look too; I didn't do a complete sweep.
>
> I think that it would be good if we this year would make a short(ish)
> list of the projects that we think are the most important, and let
> the students focus on applying for those. My impression from last
> year is that there were lots of project proposals, most of which
> could not be considered important enough to be one of the projects we
> pick, no matter how good the students were who wanted to do them.

I really like this idea.  I think we have some strategically important
things that people could work on.

peace,

  isaac