June 02, 2005
Lisp NYC's Summer of Code
The Lisp NYC user group got themselves listed as a sponsor for Google's Summer of Code.
They have a list in-progress of ways you can spend your summer coding Lisp and earning $4500, in case, as wmf says, you were too lazy to start a company:
- Create a Common Lisp interface to Posix and support it on several Lisp implementations.
- Port CMUCL's metaobject protocol implementation to SBCL.
- Create an implementation of SSL in Common Lisp.
- Create a Common Lisp library that implements the Jabber chat protocol.
- Work on merging GCL, the GNU Common Lisp implementation, into GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.
- Improve the compiler optimizations in SBCL.
- Improve Closure, a web browser written in Common Lisp. Perhaps integrate JavaScript functionality. The first JavaScript implementation was written in Lisp.
- Translate a popular Python or Perl library into Common Lisp.
- Robocup: team strategy modifications based on input, either GA or macro based mods in real-time.
- Author a non-trivial CLRFI, possibly cross-platform multi-threading.
- Author a comphrensive HowTo: HowTo [not get] sued given the recent "advancements" in IP and copyright law
- Additions to electronic music generation software, see MuSIG.
- What percentage of functions of ANSI Common Lisp are used by production applications? Can it be broken down into the 80/20 rule?
- Upgrade a Common Lisp system such that it's streams compete with those of Java in features and performance.
- Add an interesting cross-platform feature to Slime. MOP support? Make it as easy to use as Visual Studio?
- Make Wikis impervious to today's automated spamming technology while still maintaining openness. Captchas vs community? Document how it may become upsurped.
- Cross Emacs'es Eshell with Tramp: make eshell work on remote hosts.
- Implement a Common Lisp MUD that is argeeable to agents but with robust security (not a trivial task), must also be able to use a Jabber for a client front-end.
- Create a portable, cross-platform user-runnable installer, possibly by combining ASDF and defsystem.
- Design a higher-math curriculum that would interest [non math oriented] computer-science students.
- Implement a self-hosted indexing and display system for the Lisp Resource Kit's many different forms and levels of content, including video.
Posted by jjwiseman at June 02, 2005 05:29 PM
The list at lispnyc's page is now considerably less insane.
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