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The [https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/?csw=1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)] is an annual program funded by Google to allow hundreds of students around the world to participate in free or open source software.

GSoC is open to students using all kinds of technologies and each year we like to see many projects written in/for the Haskell programming language.

Some possibly useful links:

* haskell.org: [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/report/1 summer of code trac]

* reddit: [http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals haskell proposals]

* Johan Tibell: [http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/03/writing-good-google-summer-of-code.html writing good gsoc], [http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/03/summer-of-code-project-suggestions.html gsoc suggestions]

* Gwern: [http://www.gwern.net/Haskell%20Summer%20of%20Code Retrospectives 2006-2013]

== Accepted GSOC2015 projects ==

* A Strict language pragma for GHC - Adam Sandberg Eriksson [https://github.com/adamse Github account]
* [https://gist.github.com/Alllex/439480b7e80303f19ddc STM Data Structures Implementation] - Alex Semin 
* [https://gist.github.com/AjayRamanathan/c84a4641836700a2547b Implementation of Layered Gramamar of Graphics] - chinu [https://github.com/AjayRamanathan/Plot Github repository] 
* Implementing Version Comparison for Cabal Packages - Craig Roche [https://github.com/cdxr Github account]
* Improving Hackage Discoverability - D. Zack Garza [https://github.com/dzackgarza Github repository], [http://dzackgarza.com/mockup/main.html Mockup]
* [http://darcs.net/GSoC/2015-Darcsden Darcsden improvements] - Daniil Frumin [https://github.com/co-dan Github account]
* [https://gist.github.com/hdgarrood/0a389937149453c69e03 Pursuit enhancements] - Harry Garrood [https://github.com/hdgarrood Github account]
* Improvements For HBLAS And Adding LAPACK Bindings. - JuejiYang
* [https://gist.github.com/Jubobs/7a9298eeaf02bcefbc35 A standalone functional parser for CommonMark] - Julien Cretel [https://github.com/Jubobs Github account]
* [http://mpickering.github.io/gsoc2015.html Refactor program with HLint suggestions] - Matthew Pickering [https://github.com/mpickering Github account], [https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a928338441f119fa911151c0db0ceaa72c51e0c4/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f3759586f5666742e676966 Demo]
* Replication back-end for acid-state - Max Voit
* [https://gist.github.com/spinda/b261167303515cc8a1d9 Native Haskell Type Encoding for LiquidHaskell] - Michael Smith [https://github.com/spinda Github account]
* Exhaustiveness Checker for PureScript - Nicolas Del Piano [https://github.com/nicodelpiano Github account]
* [https://gist.github.com/nkartashov/e46fd146b1df2d79aaf3 Fast splittable pseudorandom number generator for System.Random] - Nikita Kartashov [https://github.com/nkartashov Github account]
* [https://github.com/sumitsahrawat/gsoc/blob/master/2015/ihaskell.pdf Interactive widgets in IHaskell] - Sumit Sahrawat [https://github.com/sumitsahrawat Github account]
* Improvements to yesod-devel - urbanslug [https://github.com/urbanslug Github account]
* [https://gist.github.com/fugyk/37510958b52589737274 Implement nix-like package management features in cabal] - Vishal Agrawal [https://github.com/fugyk Github account]
* Haddock improvements - Łukasz Hanuszczak [https://github.com/mrhania Github account]

=== Achieved Goals ===

==== Refactor program with HLint suggestions ====

My project was refactoring programs with hlint suggestions. I'm
counting it as a success but I am waiting for a new release of HSE and
hlint before making an announcement. We can apply almost all
suggestions from hlint.

Here is a demo of it working -
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a928338441f119fa911151c0db0ceaa72c51e0c4/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f3759586f5666742e676966

==== Interactive widgets in IHaskell ====

My project "Interactive widgets in IHaskell" was completed successfully. We'll be having a public announcement with an online demo on try.jupyter.org soon.

==== A Strict language pragma for GHC ====

Johan Tibell writes: I'm very happy with Adam's work strict Haskell. StrictData is already in HEAD and will be part of 8.0. Adam is working (as his studies permit) of finish the rest. Perhaps if we're really lucky we'll have the Strict pragma as well in 8.0.

=== Did Not Achieve Goals ===

==== Implementation of Layered Gramamar of Graphics ====

Last commit was made on 30 June 2015 and the README says

    Working on a implementation of layered grammar of graphics. Work in progress,
    Nothing to see here, Move on.

It may be that this work has been subsumed here https://github.com/cchalmers/plots but I am not sure how to confirm this.

== Accepted GSOC2013 projects ==
From [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/haskell haskell.org]:

* [http://blog.jlneder.com.ar/search/label/darcs Better record command for darcs]
* [http://gsoc2013cwithmobiledevices.blogspot.com.ar/ Communicating with mobile devices]
* [http://bsrkaditya.blogspot.com/ Enhancing Darcsden]
* Extending GHC to support building modules in parallel
* Improve Haddock Markup and Capabilities
* [http://ofan.me/cat/gsoc.html Haskell Qt Binding Generator and semi-automated C++ ffi wrapper] (blog not live yet)
* [http://cabal-summer.blogspot.com Improve the feedback of the cabal-install dependency solver]
* [http://parenz.wordpress.com/ interactive-diagrams and a paste site with the ability for dynamic rendering of diagrams]
* [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Records/OverloadedRecordFields/Plan Overloaded record fields for GHC]
* Parallelise 'cabal build'
* [https://github.com/jbracker/haskell-chart Port Charts to use Diagrams]

== Accepted GSOC2011 projects ==
From [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/haskell haskell.org]:

*[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/serras/50001 Alejandro Serrano : Improve EclipseFP]
*[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/pastorn/14001 Alexander Göransson: Simplified OpenGL bindings]
*[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/anklesaria/60001 Anklesaria: Interpreter Support for the Cabal-Install Build Tool]
*[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/jaspervdj/15001 Jasper Van der Jeugt: Convert the text package to use UTF–8 internally]
*[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/refold/31001 Mikhail Glushenkov: Build multiple Cabal packages in parallel]
*[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/owst/18001 Owen Stephens: Darcs Bridge]
*[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/mornfall/26001 Petr Ročkai: Darcs: primitive patches version 3]

Projects from other organizations related to haskell:

*[http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/lazard/8001 David Lazar: Formal Executable Semantics of Haskell]