[racket-dev] Google Summer of Code

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:33 AM, David Van Horn wrote:
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>> On 2/15/12 8:27 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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>>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote:
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>>>> On 2012-02-14 09:58:12 -0800, John Clements wrote:
>>>>> I sent an e-mail to Asumu about a week ago that sneakily tried to get him to take responsibility, and it sounds like he might be on it. If not, I'll take the lead. Asumu?
>>>>
>>>> I'm still up for it. The application process starts on the 27th but we
>>>> should do some preparation for it.
>>>>
>>>> First of all though, are people interested in this? If we're accepted,
>>>> any students we get are paired up with mentors, so we'll need some
>>>> people to volunteer for that. Probably not too many though.
>>>
>>> Call for names on dev and user.
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>> I'm happy to volunteer.
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>>>> The mentor's responsibility is to get their student up to speed with the
>>>> codebase/language&  community, check up on progress (once or more a
>>>> week), and formally evaluate the student.
>>>>
>>>> Other things we'd need:
>>>>  * an ideas list (the github page should do, with some modifications)
>>>>  * organization admin (I could do this, or anyone else more
>>>>    appropriate) and backup admin.
>>>>  * people willing to review student applications
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>>> Call for ideas. Set up public code review system as for Chrome.
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>> I'd like to have Android programs that speak the 2htdp/universe protocol and support World-style programming.  I have a quick mock-up of both; I can play simple games where one player is running a BSL client on a laptop and the other player is running a Java client on their phone.  I can make this more concrete if you'd.  Google has supported me in the past by supplying phones.  This seems like a good fit.
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> Looks like a perfect fit. Start recruiting students. Or should we organize it as a co-op?

We don't recruit students until we get approved by Google, I think.
And what do you mean by co-op?

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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu