I can tell you the tools that I'm investigating: A) From what I can tell, there's no standard (E)BNF parser generator for clojure. There are a few projects trying to fill the gap (thinking of fnparse <https://github.com/joshua-choi/fnparse>), but nothing standard that I've found. Could be an interesting project. B) I'm also investigating Genetic algorithms, which would be a good fit for clojure. There's actually a thread here, from 2 days prior, titled "*Request for review: GAHelloWorld*". He's exploring the topic as well and it looks like fun.
Good-luck, and HTH :) Tim Washington twash...@gmail.com 416.843.9060 On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Brian Gruber <br...@iheardata.com> wrote: > I know in the past there's been interest in the Clojure community in > participating in Google's Summer of Code program. LispNYC has been a > mentoring organization for SoC a number of times, and though we missed the > last couple of years, we're gearing up to participate again in 2011. Right > now we're looking for project ideas and I want to make sure that the Clojure > community is involved. > > For those not familiar with this program, each year since 2005 Google has > sponsored students from all over the world to work on open source software > during their summer break. Rather than work directly with Google however, > students work with a mentoring organization, like LispNYC. Students give > their project proposals to us, we rank them, and Google grants us funding > for the top n projects, where n is a number decided by Google. The program's > primary goal is to get students involved with open source, and I can think > of few projects more apt for this purpose than Clojure. > > I'm making a personal appeal to the Clojure community for project ideas > because I think it's an ideal place for a young developer to get introduced > to the open source and lisp communities. The Clojure community is one of the > friendliest and welcoming of these kinds of groups. Furthermore, the state > of Clojure as a rapidly maturing but still quite young platform means more > opportunity for students to make a substantial contribution they can be > proud of. > > We're interested in project ideas of all types: fun projects and practical > projects; projects for Clojure newbies and projects for Clojure mavens. Is > there a library you wish existed for Clojure? Support missing for your > favorite IDE? A feature that's been missing from your favorite Clojure > project? Or maybe if you hack on clojure.core you have ideas for projects > that involve changes to the language itself. Whatever your idea is, we want > to hear it. > > You may be wondering why I'm talking about a summer program in February; > the answer is that the organization application period is the first week in > March. If you'd like to contribute a project idea, please use the form at > http://lispnyc.org/soc/idea. If you have any questions, please participate > in the discussion on our mailing list ( > http://www.lispnyc.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/summeroflisp-discuss/) or in > #summeroflisp on freenode. We're also starting to look for mentors, so if > you're interested in that, please let me know. > > Thanks, and here's looking forward to a great summer. > > /brian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
