Google Summer of Code

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/3/11 3:48 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Trass3r brought it up and I think it's a very good idea. D is lacking
> some man power. The mentoring deadline is 11th of March. There are
> important and interesting projects students may work on.
>
> I'm writing this post seeking answers to
> 1. What's the "official" D stand on this matter?
> 2. Are there already students who have time and would like to join? What
>     are you interested in?
>
> The first question is currently the more important one. The organization
> administrator has to submit an application until the above deadline.
> The purpose of the second question is to get some feedback whether it
> would be worthwhile to submit an application. Because later on students
> need to propose/join a project.
>
> Jens
>
> PS
> The FAQs on http://code.google.com/soc/ is very helpful.

Thanks for this idea. I plan to submit an organization application. As 
of now I'm unclear whether Digital Mars would be the best organization 
to apply, as opposed to an unincorporated "d-programming-language.org" 
entity. I'll discuss this with Walter. All, please chime in if you have 
related experience.

We have a number of good projects to work on:

* XML library

* Networking library

* IDE

* Lexer/parser generator

* Containers

* Encryption/hashing

* Thrift bindings

* ...


Andrei