Re: Summer of Code 2008> From: Heow <heowb...@gmail.com>
> Guys,
What about the gals??? (Ellen Lewis/Golden might be reading this thread.)
> LispNYC is an official Google Summer of Code 2008 mentoring
> organization and is now accepting proposals for anything involving
> Lisp-based technology:
> http://lispnyc.org/soc.clp
I have all sorts of ideas for useful/valuable Web-based services,
using a mix of PHP and Common Lisp as appropriate. But I've been
unable to find anyone else interested in my ideas, so I haven't
been able to get any funding for implementing my ideas.
* Lexicons First-Class Global Lexical Environments for Common Lisp.
Mentorship and sponsoring by Ron Garret.
Hey Ron, congratulations in not only stirring up interest here in
c.l.l but getting the number one spot in lispnyc!!
* cl-typesetting: Improved math typesetting. Add ability for
cl-typesetting to handle mathematics using Knuth's algorithms in
TeX Requires knowledge of TeX/LaTeX and typesetting. Difficulty
level 4
It's 
that TeX is still advertised as the state of art in math
typesetting, when in 1975, *before* TeX, I created a better way to
lay out math in MRPP3 (using what I called "overlays", named after
clear-plastic overlays stacked on top of each other, used with
overhead projectors, basically transparent sections of text and/or
graphics which can be nested into larger objects, much as panels
are nested in Java awt/swing except that MRPP3 kept track of the
measurements of each overlay/panel in a bottom-up methodology so
that the toplevel overlays could then be printed correctly within
flowing text). Too bad Knuth didn't collaborate with me to combine
my "overlays" with his finely-tuned font&kerning to get something
both easy to use (like MRPP3) and locally pretty (like TeX). Note
that MacSyma implemented something similar to a subset of MRPP3 in
laying out 2-d mathprinting. Later (around 1987) I ported MRPP3 to
Lisp, whereupon it became MRPP4, used to display formulas in CAI
Calculus.
* Write an interpreter or compiler for the latest version of
Javascript. Integrate it into the Closure web browser.
Hey, that's something *I* have on *my* list of things to do if
anybody ever shows interest. In particular, the Lisp emulator for
JavaScript would run in VT100 full-screen-stdio mode on Unix just
as well as it runs on native GUI such as MS-Windows or Macintosh,
unlike regular JavaScript in MS-InternetExplorer and
Mozilla-FireFox which runs *only* on native GUI.
* Write a Common Lisp plugin for Firefox, so that Lisp can be used
instead of Javascript for client-side scripting. Difficulty level
4.
I'd like that done too! Of course it would run on VT100 too if I
had my say about it.
* Storage engine for various databases. The Idea would be to produce
a lib that is incorporated into other projects. to handle
efficient storage on disk of data.
Efficient in what way? Normally for efficient multi-user access, we
use a relational database such as MySQL or MS-Access, and connect
to it from Java or PHP or some other language.
Mentors
Sign up with Google and you'll also be added to the mentor
discuss-list.
I'd be glad to mentor some student, if he/she would be working on
something I want to be accomplished, such as the items I mentionned
above. Let me click on the link and see if I'm allowed to offer to
mentor...
Google Summer of Code Mentor Organization Participant Agreement
IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS PARTICIPANT AGREEMENT CAREFULLY AND
COMPLETELY BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION FOR GOOGLE SUMMER OF ...
Ugh!!! One huge run-on paragraph of legalese, no paragraph or
section breaks, no line breaks except running line-overflow.
Section numbers right in the middle of a line whereever they
randomly occur, such as:
form as applicable. You will be given the appropriate form and
instructions for sending the completed document to Google as part of
the Application process. 1.6 Release of Claims. Independent of any
consideration accruing to you hereunder, you hereby release Google
from, and agree not to sue Google for, any claim or cause of action,
See that 1.6 right in the middle of the line?
publicity or personality, or any other claim or cause of action based
on or related to your participation in the Google Summer of Code
Program. 1.7 No Obligation to Use. Google is not obligated to make any
use of any code, or to exercise any of the rights granted to Google by
this Agreement. 2. MENTOR ORGANIZATION OBLIGATIONS 2.1 The Mentor
Organization agrees: (a) To provide a publicly published list of
project ideas that participating students will choose a project from
to work on for the duration of the Program (b) To make available a
See a mix of toplevel (2.) mid-level (1.7, 2.1) and low-level (a, b)
headings all flowing in that huge paragraph instead of stood out at
left margin at various levels of indentation?
(By clicking the button below, you agree to the above and to the Terms
of Service)
I agree
<http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/tos.html>
"Mentor Organizations" are defined as individuals, groups,
organizations and/or businesses engaged in the development and
distribution of free and/or open source software. ...
..
6. To make available alternate mentor or mentors ready to take over
for the aforementioned Mentor(s) in the event s/he is unable to
continue providing guidance to the accepted student applicant;
I have a problem: If an *individual* may define him/herself as a
"Mentor Organization", but that *individual* later becomes unable
to continue providing guidance, how can that *individual* be
expected to **make** some *other* person take over that role as
mentor??
Organizations based in Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and
Myanmar (Burma), with whom we are prohibited by U.S. law from engaging
in commerce, are ineligible to participate.
Hey, Myanmar has gotten on the no-commerce list, as a result of
recent tortuing of their citizens? This is good news, that our
goverment has taken that action! I didn't know it until just now!
Link that you currently have selected
Linkname: I agree
Method: POST
Enctype: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Action: http://code.google.com/soc/mentor.html
Please sign in in order to use the Mentoring interface.
Linkname: sign in
URL:
http://www.google.com/accounts/Logi...tp://code.googl
e.com/soc/mentor.html&followup=http://code.google.com/soc/mento
r.html
So it appears I won't be allowed to sign up as a mentor unless and
until I reveal to Google one of my e-mail addresses, at which point
Google will sell my e-mail address to spammers who will flood that
e-mail address with spam so that later if Google Lisp managers or
my student (whom I'm mentoring) send me e-mail I won't see it
because it'll be mixed with tens of thousands of spam, like this:
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(above all spam that arrived within the past 19 hours, below all older spam)
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^^^^ (what's grand total in that column?)
Exercise for any Lisp newbie: Write a program to parse that
columnar layout, convert each string decimal integer in that marked
column to actual integer, add the integers from that column, then
convert total back to decimal string for output.
(No fair writing the program in FORTRAN or COBOL where parsing
columnar format would be trivial. It's almost trivial in Common Lisp.)
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