Hey everybody,
The Perl Foundation is one of the mentor organisations at Google's
Summer of Code (GSoC) this year [1]. Students have until April 3 to
find a project and mentor, and to write up a project proposal on which
- if accepted - they will work from mid-May to mid-August. Since
that's not a lot of time to find out about all the projects on offer,
I've put up a short page on the Trac wiki [2] linking to our most
important online resources, aimed at students trying to get a quick
idea about what Parrot is, what's being worked on, and how they can
contribute through this programme. I think Parrot has a chance to
attract a wholly new group of languagesmiths and virtual machine geeks
into the Perl community, especially as Perl 5 knowledge isn't
necessary to work on it, and I'd love to see a bigger fuss made about
it at the GSoC.
My understanding of where Parrot is at the moment is pretty vague,
though, so please let me know - or edit yourselves - any mistakes,
missing or unnecessary information on that page. I'd like to link to
this page from TPF's GSoC projects page [3], as there's much more
space here to go into greater detail on project ideas and mentor
interests. Being able to link directly to Trac tickets or the roadmap
might be helpful too.
cheers,
Gaurav
[1] http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc
[2] https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/GSOC2009
[3] http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc_2009_projects
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