Re: [MirageOS-devel] [GSoC'17] Interested in CoHTTP

[Mindy <mindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/14/2017 08:04 AM, Haiyu Yang wrote:

> Hi all,
> My name is Haiyu and I am really interested in contributing MirageOS 
> this summer.
Hi!  I'm Mindy, one of the co-administrators (with Lars Kurth) for this 
round of GSoC and Outreachy.  It's great to hear that you're interested 
in MirageOS!
> I don't know if this is late or early, but I think it's always good to 
> get in contact with the community. I particularly interested in the 
> CoHTTP project. Is it still available right now?
cohttp is pretty active at the moment!  You might want to speak with 
Rudi Grinberg, who's lately been doing a lot of needed work in that 
project, to get a bit more guidance on where to start looking.
> Actually, I learnt Standard ML on MOOC and Haskell in college, but no 
> serious experience with OCaml. And I have some experience with OS and 
> HTTP protocol. I think this project would be fun for me.
If you're looking for resources on OCaml, I can recommend "Real World 
OCaml" which got me started from a similar background; it's available 
for free at https://realworldocaml.org .  I've also heard lots of 
recommendations of "OCaml from the Very Beginning", which has several 
chapters available for free at http://ocaml-book.com/ .
> To be honest, I'm not quite clear about the overall process of GSoC 
> application. Is it very competitive? Do I need move fast to have some 
> work done right now?
We're fortunate to have had a lot of interest this year!  For us the 
number of GSoC and Outreachy positions available depend on the overall 
level of interest in the Xen project, so the level of competition is 
difficult to gauge from our little corner.  Student draft proposals for 
GSoC should be submitted between 20 March and 3 April (deadline 16.00 
UTC), so it's probably a good idea to get started soon.
Thanks,
Mindy

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