[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Kow
Hi, (carefully avoiding your name :-P) On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 16:08:18 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Tomorrow, I will discuss with the first half of my student project students (3 students) about what exact topic they will pursue. My idea is to let them start a Grapefruit-based darcs GUI.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-23 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2009 16:18 schrieb Eric Kow: Hi Wolgang, Hmm, wrong again. ;-) On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:53:23 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: What do you mean with “something which will make it much easier for third parties to write a GUI in the future”? Kari's example of

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-21 Thread Eric Kow
Hi Wolgang, On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:53:23 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: What do you mean with “something which will make it much easier for third parties to write a GUI in the future”? Kari's example of GUI-friendly optimisations might be one thought. More generally, I was thinking of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-20 Thread Malcolm Wallace
That is correct. The haskell.org mentors decided to spend the money on hosting the haskell.org and community.haskell.org web sites and services, to benefit the whole community rather than just themselves. Hmm, mentoring a project also benefits the whole community and not just the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 05:10 schrieben Sie: Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: I’ve put myself as a potential mentor on the old Haskell SoC ticket (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17). However, one or two years ago I was told that mentoring is a very time-consuming

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-19 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Unless Google's changed things, the organization gets 500$ for each project. What the Darcs organization does with that, who knows. Yes, who knows. The Haskell organization didn't give a cent to the mentors, as far as I know. Am I wrong here? That is correct. The haskell.org mentors

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 12:37 schrieb Malcolm Wallace: Unless Google's changed things, the organization gets 500$ for each project. What the Darcs organization does with that, who knows. Yes, who knows. The Haskell organization didn't give a cent to the mentors, as far as I

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 10:54 schrieb Eric Kow: The first is to work towards a sort of graphical interface for darcs (as has been suggested on this list). I suspect that we what we will likely do with this idea is to refine it into something that may either be part of a GUI (like a