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

[Johan Tibell]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Malcolm Wallace
<Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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!
>
> The timeline is that Haskell.org will apply for GSoC membership between
> 9-13 March, and if we are successful, students can submit applications
> between 23 March - 3 April.

Google is now accepting applications:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html