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The 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: summer of code trac

reddit: haskell proposals

Johan Tibell: writing good gsoc, gsoc suggestions

Gwern: Retrospectives 2006-2013

Accepted GSOC2015 projects

A Strict language pragma for GHC - Adam Sandberg Eriksson Github account
STM Data Structures Implementation - Alex Semin
Implementation of Layered Gramamar of Graphics - chinu Github repository
Implementing Version Comparison for Cabal Packages - Craig Roche Github account
Improving Hackage Discoverability - D. Zack Garza Github repository, Mockup
Darcsden improvements - Daniil Frumin Darcsden accoun - Blog post
Pursuit enhancements - Harry Garrood Github account
Improvements For HBLAS And Adding LAPACK Bindings. - JuejiYang
A standalone functional parser for CommonMark - Julien Cretel Github account
Refactor program with HLint suggestions - Matthew Pickering Github account, Demo
Replication back-end for acid-state - Max Voit
Native Haskell Type Encoding for LiquidHaskell - Michael Smith Github account
Exhaustiveness Checker for PureScript - Nicolas Del Piano Github account
Fast splittable pseudorandom number generator for System.Random - Nikita Kartashov Github account
Interactive widgets in IHaskell - Sumit Sahrawat Github account
Improvements to yesod-devel - urbanslug Github account
Implement nix-like package management features in cabal - Vishal Agrawal Github account
Haddock improvements - Łukasz Hanuszczak 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

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.

As of 2015-11-14 both language extensions (StrictData and Strict) are merged in GHC Head (in time for GHC 8.0).

STM Data Structures Implementation

Alex's excellent work is here and is soon to be uploaded to hackage.

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 but I am not sure how to confirm this.

Improvements For HBLAS And Adding LAPACK Bindings

The last contribution by the student to the repo seems to be 2 May 2015.

There is this but it's hard to judge from it what the contribution is.

Accepted GSOC2013 projects

From haskell.org:

Better record command for darcs
Communicating with mobile devices
Enhancing Darcsden
Extending GHC to support building modules in parallel
Improve Haddock Markup and Capabilities
Haskell Qt Binding Generator and semi-automated C++ ffi wrapper (blog not live yet)
Improve the feedback of the cabal-install dependency solver
interactive-diagrams and a paste site with the ability for dynamic rendering of diagrams
Overloaded record fields for GHC
Parallelise 'cabal build'
Port Charts to use Diagrams

Accepted GSOC2011 projects