On 1/30/21 12:11 AM, JJ Merelo wrote:
Hi,
You probably know that GSoC is an annual event where Google provides
grants for students to help develop new stuff in open source
organizations. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/>
We participated a couple of years ago, and got a lot of help for the
documentation and other stuff. Last year our application didn't get
through, so let's try again this year.
We participate under the umbrella of the Perl Foundation, so it's Perl
or Raku projects, or any other open source project that's written in any
of these languages.
in this phase, where we prepare the application, we need project ideas.
https://github.com/perl-foundation-outreach/gsoc-2021-ideas
<https://github.com/perl-foundation-outreach/gsoc-2021-ideas> Follow the
template in the main directory to propose something you'd be comfortable
tutoring. Tutoring happens through summer, and it's ideally done by 2-3
people per project so that some can do the summer-y thing while the
others help.
What I want from you
- Propose project ideas that can take a student (possibly with no prior
idea of Raku) a summer to work on. It can be part of the core, but also
modules you're working already with or some you want to work with.
- Help as mentors. Mentors get their own T-Shirt and the appreciation
from the whole community, and little in the way of monetary emoluments,
but the Perl Foundation gets 2500€ (or $, don't remember exactly) per
project, so you help not only further the goals of the project you're
mentoring, but also the community at large.
I've mentored in a couple of occasions, and it's an overall nice
experience, plus you get to help Raku and also maybe yourself with some
project you're familiar with. Getting involved is a win-win, for you and
the community at large.
Anything else you need to know, please ask.
Cheers
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JJ
Hi JJ,
Not something I can tutor on, but something I really,
really need fixed: the excessive compile time not
found it Perl 5.
$ ls -al GetUpdates.pl6
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 todd users 356600 Jan 30 01:34 GetUpdates.pl6
$ raku -c --stagestats GetUpdates.pl6
Stage start : 0.000
Stage parse : 17.851
Stage syntaxcheck: Syntax OK
Molasses slow
Here is Perl 5
$ ls -al GetUpdates.pl
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 todd users 208173 Apr 26 2019 GetUpdates.pl
$ time perl -c GetUpdates.pl
GetUpdates.pl syntax OK
real 0m0.305s
user 0m0.243s
sys 0m0.029s
Lightning fast
Many thanks,
-T
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