Re: [Caml-list] GSoC preparedness

[Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>]

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I believe the way it works (though I could be wrong) is that an open-source
organization that signs up is supposed to have projects that concerns its
codebase or related components. That means either the toolchain or some
related tool like a debugger or perhaps something like Merlin. Perhaps it
could even extend to a library that can be shown to be extremely useful to
the community -- something like Lwt or Batteries.

It would be harder to make the case for something that's purely an
application on top of OCaml, though I do believe that is possible once an
organization is more established with GSoC, for example Xen getting Mirage
into GSoC -- Anil would probably know more about that kind of thing.

Again, I could be wrong about this, so if anyone has better information,
please correct me.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
wrote:

> What you've written implies that all projects should regard the OCaml
> compiler itself. Is that the intention? Or could this support projects
> using the OCaml language for other purposes? What other purposes? General
> tools of use to the OCaml community, or just anything that happens to be
> implemented in OCaml.
>
> Thanks for providing a place to collect these ideas.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone
>>
>> Another year has gone by, and Google Summer of Code is upon us again.
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we're ready to participate this year
>> either (sign up dates for mentoring organizations are Feb 9th to the 20th).
>> After seeing some comments on reddit, I have taken the liberty of
>> establishing 2 pages on the ocaml.org wiki:
>>
>> - GSoC ideas (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/GSoC-ideas): this
>> is a list of ideas for projects that students could do. It needs to be
>> filled up and then maintained, so that by next year at least, we actually
>> have something to show google.
>>
>> - GSoC Application (
>> https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/wiki/GSoC-application): a hastily
>> filled out application covering the questions google expects answered. This
>> should also be maintained so that it's pretty much ready to go.
>>
>> Please fill out these pages as much as you can -- particularly the ideas
>> page. I haven't listed any project ideas myself, but I tried to write some
>> guidelines for the kinds of things that could be used as projects.
>>
>> -Yotam
>>
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