[Swift-devel] [gt-dev] Google Summer of Code 2010 - Please contribute project ideas (fwd)

[wilde at mcs.anl.gov]

Ben, sorry I missed this message; Borja just pointed it out to me.

Both ideas sound interesting, and the first would be uniquely in your interest camp. Im very interested in also enhancing the imperative control structures, and then comparing the functional vs. imperative approaches.

Regarding the second one: Ive made recent progress in calling Swift from within R, in an R-ish manner (ie you dont see any Swift); since R is rather functional and also of great interest to the analytics community, perhaps we can coordinate a joint SoC effort around that.

I hope to get other Swift SoC projects on the table soon.

- Mike





----- "Ben Clifford" <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:

> This has been good before. I'm probably still interested in mentoring
> 
> (seeing as it pays out beer money and a tshirt to the mentor) 
> language-related projects:
>  * actually implementing map/fold like operators 
> would be one, if it was likely to be accepted as a contribution into
> the 
> production codebase (which I'm not sure what the feel is for that); 
> 
>  * a prototype haskell (or other functional language) implementation
> in 
> order to explore that space (with no intention that this would become
> 
> production code - intention would be to give more practical experience
> for 
> fuel in long-winded debates about whether SwiftScript would be better
> 
> implemented inside some other langauge)
> 
> -- 
> http://www.hawaga.org.uk/ben/
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:40:52 -0600
> From: Borja Sotomayor <borja at borjanet.com>
> To: gt-dev <gt-dev at lists.globus.org>
> Subject: [gt-dev] Google Summer of Code 2010 - Please contribute
> project ideas
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Globus has participated in Google Summer of Code
> (http://code.google.com/soc/) for the last two years, giving us the
> opportunity to work with talented students, expand our community, and
> develop cool projects that would have otherwise languished on a
> wishlist
> somewhere (see http://tinyurl.com/globus-gsoc09 for details on last
> summer's projects, and http://tinyurl.com/globus-gsoc08 for the 2008
> projects).
> 
> We will be applying again this year to be a mentoring organization in
> Summer of Code, and a big part of the application is preparing a
> strong
> list of student projects. I am writing to encourage members of the
> Globus community to add cool and interesting project ideas to the
> following wiki page:
> 
> 	http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010_Ideas
> 
> You will find more information on GSoC and detailed instructions on
> how
> to add a GSoC project idea in the above URL. Even though new project
> ideas are preferable, past GSoC mentors should feel free to re-offer
> any
> idea that was not developed last year (see last year's list:
> http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas)
> 
> The GSoC deadline for mentoring organizations is March 12th, but we
> would like all project ideas to be added by March 10th so we can have
> time to polish them up, ask committers for clarifications, etc.
> 
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reply to this
> thread.
> 
> Cheers!
> -- 
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