= Haskell.org's Google Summer of Code 2008 Project =

This wiki is for organizing our participation, keeping track of the projects, tasks, and publishing news.

Potential mentors and student applicants can (and should) suggest projects using the links below.
However, don't forget that, once you find something you are interested in, you will also need to
apply directly to Google.

To edit pages, if you don't already have a trac login, you will need to register one. (See buttons top right)

For real-time discussion, join the IRC channel #haskell-soc  on irc.freenode.net:6667.

== Project ideas! ==

 * [report:1 Project ideas] 
 * [../newticket Add a project idea] - (be sure to sign in first)

== News ==
 * 2008-05-26: Coding starts:  [wiki:progress2008 Ongoing progress reports]
 * 2008-04-21: We have received 7 funded student slots from Google: [wiki:Students2008 accepted proposals]
 * 2008-04-01: Ranking in progress...
 * 2008-03-24: Student applications to Google have opened (deadline 2008-03-31)
 * 2008-03-17: haskell.org has been accepted as a mentoring organisation
 * 2008-03-10: haskell.org has applied to be a mentoring organisation
 * 2008-02-25: Google announces they will be running Summer of Code again in 2008.

= Students: =
Want to earn $4500 for 3 months work hacking in Haskell?  Go
to our [report:1 ideas page], browse around, and [wiki:StudApply2008 write up a proposal] for something
you would like to work on.  You must be available to work basically
full-time for the months of June to August (inclusive).  Proposals are
competitive against other students.  For each of the last two years, nine were funded.  Your
deadline for application is 31st March 2008.

== Starting Points ==
 * [http://code.google.com/soc/2008 Google Summer of Code 2008 Home]
 * [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html Google SoC 2008 FAQ]
 * [http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/WikiStart Google Summer of Code 2007 Wiki Knowledge Base]

== Organization ==
 * [wiki:People2008] - People interested in the project.
 * [wiki:StudApply2008 Student application template] for haskell.org projects

= Mentors and Anyone else: =
Got any good ideas for coding projects, but no time to work
on them yourself?  [../newticket Add it into the database!]

Or do you feel you could be either a primary or backup mentor for a student
project in an area of your interest, even if it isn't a project you
defined yourself?  We need willing members of the community to foster
the new student talent, so sign up on the [wiki:People2008] page if you
would like to be involved.  Obviously you will need Haskell coding
experience, but also be able to advise on time management, strategies
for gaining a userbase and keeping them happy, ways of interacting with
the wider Haskell community, and so on.

== Notes ==

We have a list of stale proposals from previous years:

 * [/trac/summer-of-code/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&priority=&type=proposed-project&order=priority Stale proposals - summary]
 * [/trac/summer-of-code/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&verbose=1&priority=&type=proposed-project&order=priority Stale proposals - full descriptions]

Take a look and if your favourite project is on the list then change it's
priority and add a comment giving an explanation.

Tickets <= #86 were proposals from 2006.  ome of those ideas are still good,
but some might have been completed already. Tickets t: #1102 <= t <= #1131 were
proposals from 2007. Items from #1429 upwards are new for 2008.  

Add some more!  (We have disabled anonymous ticket creation to
stop spam, so you will need to register a login.)

Students can often find it difficult to pitch a proposal just right for the time available.  Mentors (or anybody else with experience) should add comments to proposals, like: off-topic, too easy, too hard, too vague. Please also give suggestions for improvement, helping to tighten-up and clarify what would be cool about the project.

We will probably try to have a backup mentor for every project in the final allocation, so feel free to put yourself down for a proposal, even if you might not be confident enough to be lead mentor.