Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-03-10 Thread Johan Tibell
What's the status on this? Have we applied as organization? Do we have enough mentors? Cheers, Johan On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: I would happily participate as a mentor again and I am willing to step up as administrator if you want to get it off your

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-03-05 Thread iquiw
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: I think I would use the module system for namespacing rather than using function prefixes. Like so: import Text.Html as E import qualified Text.Html.Attribute as A E.html ! [A.class_ my-class] (... more combinators

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-03-04 Thread Johan Tibell
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk wrote: Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again this year, then we need volunteers: First, * suggestions

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-03-04 Thread Johan Tibell
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:48 AM, iquiw iku.iw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Johan, On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a proposal for a project I'd be willing to mentor: = A high-performance HTML combinator library using Data.Text = Nice project! I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-03-04 Thread Johan Tibell
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:48 AM, iquiw iku.iw...@gmail.com wrote: I think I would use the module system for namespacing rather than using function prefixes. Like so: import Text.Html as E import qualified

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-08 Thread John Van Enk
I'll just toss this idea out there: I want to be able to pick a runtime to compile against. Some Ada compilers allow me to specify a runtime to use with a --RTS flag. This, of course, also means we'd need to write more runtime variants. I dropped this on the haskell_proposals reddit for safe

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Gwern Branwen wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:34 +0100, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gwern, Please update: haskell-src-exts - haskell-src **Unknown** This project was an unqualified success.  

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampa...@credit-suisse.com wrote: Gwern Branwen wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:34 +0100, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gwern, Please

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Edward Kmett
You can add me to the list of voices that were unwilling to use it before the summer-of-code project due to the random incompatibilities caused by the huge supply of extensions it supported out of the box, but who were happy to switch to it after the changes were made to make them configurable.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Niklas Broberg
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: You can add me to the list of voices that were unwilling to use it before the summer-of-code project due to the random incompatibilities caused by the huge supply of extensions it supported out of the box, but who were happy

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Niklas Broberg niklas.brob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at a loss as to what criteria is actually used to judge success here. It seems to me a bit like the eternal discussion between basic research and applied research. Just because something

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Niklas Broberg
There may be an eternal discussion on it, but it seems pretty clear to me which side SoC comes down on: http://code.google.com/soc/ I'm really not sure what you're getting at. How do the points you list not relate to my project? And how does my analogy contradict any of those points? If the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-05 Thread Malcolm Wallace
If the goal is to have more source code [..] created and released for the use and benefit of all, how does my project fail to achieve this? Also, it is worth pointing out that from Google's point of view, they are most interested in whether the programme yields students who stick around and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-04 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:34 +0100, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gwern, Please update: haskell-src-exts - haskell-src **Unknown** This project was an unqualified success.  haskell-src-exts is now one

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Gwern, Please update: haskell-src-exts - haskell-src **Unknown** This project was an unqualified success. haskell-src-exts is now one of the most commonly used Haskell libraries, achieved the goals in the project proposal, and is an essential piece of Haskell infrastructure. I couldn't be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-03 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:34:34 +0100, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gwern, Please update: haskell-src-exts - haskell-src **Unknown** This project was an unqualified success. haskell-src-exts is now one of the most commonly used Haskell libraries, achieved the goals in the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-02 Thread Neil Mitchell
I'd also be happy to mentor. Where is the official place to collect project ideas? We used trac previously, are we still using it or are we now on Reddit? Thanks, Neil 2010/2/1 sterl s.clo...@gmail.com: Malcolm Wallace wrote: Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-02 Thread Johan Tibell
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also be happy to mentor. Where is the official place to collect project ideas? We used trac previously, are we still using it or are we now on Reddit? Is there a way to prune the reddit list? Some of the projects

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-02 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: I'd also be happy to mentor. Where is the official place to collect project ideas? We used trac previously, are we still using it or are we now

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-02 Thread Max Bolingbroke
2010/1/31 Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk: Both of these roles are called mentor in the Google system.  Putting together a good team of mentors before applying as an organisation is helpful towards us being accepted into the programme. Having experienced being a student on the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-01 Thread Edward Kmett
I would happily participate as a mentor again and I am willing to step up as administrator if you want to get it off your plate. -Edward Kmett On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wall...@cs.york.ac.uk wrote: Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-01 Thread Johan Tibell
I'd be willing to mentor again. I think it's really important that we think hard about coming up with projects which improve the core Haskell tool chain this year. Cheers, Johan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-01 Thread sterl
Malcolm Wallace wrote: Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again this year, then we need volunteers: I'd be happy to mentor again as well. It's important to bear in mind that the total number of

[Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-01-31 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again this year, then we need volunteers: First, * suggestions for suitable projects (in the past this was organised using a reddit) * an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-01-31 Thread Don Stewart
malcolm.wallace: Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again this year, then we need volunteers: First, * suggestions for suitable projects (in the past this was organised