[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Google Summer of Code Projects

S. Alexander Jacobson alex at alexjacobson.com
Wed May 24 16:22:07 EDT 2006


Is there a link to the project descriptions somewhere.  They look 
really interesting.

-alex-

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

>
> We are very pleased to announce that nine Haskell projects have been
> selected to receive funding to the value of $45k under Google's 2006
> Summer of Code program. A wide range of projects will be worked on,
> contributing to the community important tools and libraries. The
> students have until August 21 to complete their projects, and receive
> their grants.
>
> The Haskell.org team of mentors would like to thank Google for
> recognizing the importance of supporting the Haskell language and
> community.
>
> This year was extremely competitive, with over 110 Haskell project
> submissions. Of these, 38 projects received high scores and willing
> mentors, and 66 received positive reviews overall. We hope that many of
> the unsuccessful projects will be worked on nonetheless.
>
> The following projects were successful. Congratulations to these students!
>
>  * Fast Mutable Collection Types for Haskell,
>    Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho,
>    Mentor: Audrey Tang
>
>  * Port Haddock to use GHC,
>    David Waern,
>    Mentor: Simon Marlow
>
>  * A model for client-side scripts with HSP,
>    Joel Björnson,
>    Mentor: Niklas Broberg
>
>  * GHCi based debugger for Haskell,
>    José Iborra López,
>    Mentor: David Himmelstrup
>
>  * HaskellNet,
>    Jun Mukai,
>    Mentor: Shae Erisson
>
>  * Language.C - a C parser written in Haskell,
>    Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom,
>    Mentor: Manuel Chakravarty
>
>  * Implement a better type checker for Yhc,
>    Mathieu Boespflug,
>    Mentor: Malcolm Wallace
>
>  * Thin out cabal-get and integrate in GHC,
>    Paolo Martini,
>    Mentor: Isaac Jones
>
>  * Unicode ByteString, Data.Rope, Parsec for generic strings,
>    Spencer Janssen,
>    Mentor: Don Stewart
>
> We wish the students good luck and good hacking!
>
> The Haskell.org Team.
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