[Unison-hackers] GSoC for unison?

[Benjamin C. Pierce]

Sounds like a good idea.  

I tried to add myself to the wiki, but apparently this requires an account.  Feel free to add me as a potential mentor for unison-related projects.  

Best,

    - Benjamin

On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Christophe and I are trying to coordinate OCaml community efforts to be
> accepted as mentor organization for this year GSoC.
> 
> I think unison team can get some precious help from student through this
> kind of summer project. If some of you are willing to be sponsors, add
> your name to the mentors list:
> https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/gsoc-team/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> Maybe the unison project can run its own GSoC mentoring organization,
> but I think we can benefit from a partnership.
> 
> If we have enough mentors and proposals, this will ease Google
> acceptance of our mentor organization.
> 
> Cheers
> Sylvain
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler at umons.ac.be> -----
> 
> Dear OCaml developers,
> 
> Google Summer of Code has been announced and we think that the OCaml
> Community should participate to this event. We have setup a project on
> the OCaml Forge to coordinate our effort.
> 
> We invite all students and would-be mentors to visit our wiki:
> https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/gsoc-team/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> - If you are willing to be a mentor, you can make proposal (this will
>  only be "draft" proposal, until one student pick it) and put the
>  name on the mentor list:
>  https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/gsoc-team/index.php/Main_Page#Contact
> 
> - Students that would like to join can contact mentors of draft
>  proposals or make new one and discuss them with possible mentors:
>  https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/gsoc-team/index.php/GSoC2011/Applying
> 
> The first step we will have to pass is to have Google accept the OCaml
> Community as a Mentoring organization.  To reach this goal, ideas are
> welcome.  Some documents are available on this topic here:
> http://www.google-melange.com/  We also have put online a first
> version of our answers to Google questions (to be completed) :
> https://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/gsoc-team/index.php/MetaOrganization
> 
> Best regards,
> C. Troestler and S. Le Gall
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
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