Howdy Nat, Welcome to the Parrot community, we take your interest in doing a GSoC project very seriously. I fully support that you should write a few different proposals, if you have more than one good idea for a GSoC project.
Here is some specific feedback on your rough draft: The timeline is not detailed enough. Please write a sentence (or a few) for what you hope to do each week. Could you finish the rest of "Project Details" ? It stops mid-sentence. Are you familiar with version control? I think the deliverables section should describe that you will have a separate code repo that will then get merged. The best way to go about this is probably a git branch of the parrot git mirror (which i need to get running again, long story...), but you could also use a Subversion branch. Could you also specify the very specific things that Parrot will enjoy in the "Benefits" section? This proposal is a great start! Working on it a bit more will make it really shine. Feel free to ask question in #parrot or #soc-help on irc.perl.org. Duke On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Nat Tuck <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey All, > > My name is Nat, or Chandon on IRC. I'm a graduate student at the University > of Massachusetts Lowell, and I'd like to do a Google Summer of Code project > for Parrot this year. > > After looking at the project ideas list, the Immutable Strings project that > Whiteknight blogged about seemed, not quite as simple as it looks at first > glance, but still simple enough to easily get done over the summer. > > After talking to Whiteknight a bit and reading the list archives, it looks > like I might have been a bit slow as other people seem to have had had the > same thought. > > In any case, here's a rough draft of an application for the Immutable > Strings project: > > http://pandion.ferrus.net/gsoc/proposal-immutable_strings.txt > > In talking to people on IRC, it looks like there might be a more interesting > (but much more complicated) project opportunity in getting threads to work > with Parrot. I plan to write up a proposal for that and post it here as > well. > > Thoughts? > > -- Nat > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > > -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto [email protected] http://leto.net _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
