Hi all!<div> I don't quite follow how Racket web app framework has grown for some period, so not sure this may look appropriate as an potential GSoc idea. Currently there's open PaaS platform named cloudfoundry (<a href="http://www.cloudfoundry.com" target="_blank">www.cloudfoundry.com</a>). It's a real cloud platform and developers could use the supported frameworks/runtimes/tools to create/deploy a cloud app in a very fast way without the need of caring the underlying infrastructure setup. At this moment, Ruby/Java/Scala/Node.js are officially supported, although PhP/Python are also added by thirdparty company. Cloudfoundry source is in <a href="https://github.com/cloudfoundry" target="_blank">https://github.com/cloudfoundry</a> and it provides a MicroCloud env (a VM) to facilitate the development of in-house app. So this looks like a place for Racket to go since it does have a modern well designed web framework as well as a powerful language. </div>
<div> As a quick reference, here're how Python and PHP work in case you cannot find them from the official page.</div><div> <a href="http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20386327-php-support-in-cloud-foundry">http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20386327-php-support-in-cloud-foundry</a></div>
<div> <a href="http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20382447-python-support-in-cloud-foundry">http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20382447-python-support-in-cloud-foundry</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>
Nevo<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 March 2012 06:21, Asumu Takikawa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asumu@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">asumu@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
We are currently putting together an application as a mentoring<br>
organization for the Google Summer of Code 2012, which is a summer<br>
program in which Google pays students to work on open source/free<br>
software projects.<br>
<br>
As part of the application, we are currently collecting project ideas<br>
for our "ideas page" that gives applying students ideas for projects<br>
that can be completed in 12 weeks. If you have any ideas along these<br>
lines, please contribute to our wiki page:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/plt/racket/wiki/SoC-Ideas-2012" target="_blank">https://github.com/plt/racket/wiki/SoC-Ideas-2012</a><br>
<br>
Feel free to add ideas even if you don't have time to mentor a student.<br>
Please add each idea separately and follow the template on the page.<br>
<br>
The deadline for our application is Fri, March 9. If you have any<br>
project ideas, please add them by then. Thanks.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Asumu<br>
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