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 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 > 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 >> > >