[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Google Summer of Code 2009

[Don Stewart]

Malcolm.Wallace:
> Gentle Haskellers,
> 
> The Google Summer of Code will be running again this year.  Once again,
> haskell.org has the opportunity to bid to become a mentoring
> organisation.  (Although, as always, there is no guarantee of
> acceptance.)
> 
> If you have ideas for student projects that you think would benefit the
> Haskell community, now is the time to start discussing them on mailing
> lists of your choice.  We especially encourage students to communicate
> with the wider community: if you keep your ideas private, you have a
> much worse chance of acceptance than if you develop ideas in
> collaboration with those who will be your "customers", end-users, or
> fellow-developers.  This is the open-source world!
> 

And I'll just note that since December we've been running a proposal
submission site here, where you can vote and comment on ideas,

    http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/top/

A great place to suggest ideas!

-- Don