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Arc Summer of Code?
21 points by kennytilton 6055 days ago | 7 comments
Is the Arc team applying to be a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code?

  http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
If not, the Lisp NYC Social Club has been covering the Lisp family for a few years, Arcers will be welcome:

   http://www.lispnyc.org/soc.clp
Let us know.


6 points by eds 6055 days ago | link

That would be really awesome. I might be interested in Google Summer of Code if I could work on Arc.

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6 points by kennytilton 6055 days ago | link

Cool. pg, if you are reading this plz let me know if we should advertise to Arcers or if your group will be doing so. You would get more student projects allocated as an Arc-specific mentoring organization, btw. Lisp-NYC only got a few projects from Google last time, and Arc students would be competing against students for other Lisps for the allocation.

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4 points by kennytilton 6055 days ago | link

In the meantime, interested Arcers who qualify under the Google rules are free to conjure up projects they think will be attractive to whichever group ends up mentoring Arcers, and/or watching the Lisp NYC space for project ideas provided by us and/or mentors outside our group. In the end the student applies to Google who forwards to the right group for assessment which the group returns to Google who then finally decides. Hope that's clear. :)

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2 points by bzg 6049 days ago | link

Any update on this? Has Arc applied for the GSOC?

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1 point by kennytilton 6044 days ago | link

I have no idea what pg et al are up to, but google says the list of approved mentoring orgs gets announced here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ tomorrow. If you do not see an Arc group, talk to Lisp-NYC (er, assuming we get approved -- if not, look for any group in the Lisp family).

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2 points by kennytilton 6043 days ago | link

Lisp-NYC has in fact now been approved and would welcome Arc proposals. Again, I have no idea if pg et al have also gotten involved.

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1 point by eds 6045 days ago | link

Are there still no updates on GSOC? I really would like to know.

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