Andrei Varanovich wrote:
One question to more experienced GSoC'ers. I do understand that this is important to find mentors in advance. As soon as I think nowadays it is critical for the programming language ecosystem to handle BigData [1], have a proposal to implement HDFS [1] support for CloudHaskell [2] with some MapReduce abstractions. What would be the "right" way to communicate with potential mentors? I looked at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ and it seems there is not so much going on there. Or, perhaps, this mailing list is just OK?
I think that Johan Tibell's advice applies to students as well: if you have a project idea, then
1. Write a proposal that will make people cheer and swoon. In particular, it should be useful to a lot of people from the Haskell community and you should demonstrate why you're capable of completing it, for instance by finding a very good scope for the project or maybe because your first name rhymes with Simon.
2. Advertise it on the mailing list and/or reddit and/or Google+, so that people can read it and give feedback. Incorporating said feedback is a good idea.
3. If the proposal piques everyone's interest, I'm sure that someone will volunteer to be a mentor.
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