[CCC DEV] GSoC coming up

[Matt Jadud]

> Sorry if any of this has already been asked, but I couldn't reach the
> mailman archives.

Hi Xo Wang,

I've been working on the archives these last two days. I'll finish
that tonight no matter what. I'm moving things from one URL (https) to
another (http), and broke the archives. Because I'm a prof, my day is
interrupted by other things (like classes), so I haven't finished the
move.

:D

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Xo Wang <xo at geekshavefeelings.com> wrote:
> This is my first post here. Hi again! I saw that you guys applied to GSoC,
> and I just wanted to express that I'd really like to be a student if you
> guys are accepted. I've been an user of Arduino for a while now. Though I'm
> more of a PIC guy, I enjoy Processing and Wiring/Arduino immensely for
> prototyping smaller projects.

That's awesome. Of course, we don't know if we'll be a mentoring
organization yet, but this is the right place to be if we are
accepted.

> I was wondering what sorts of proposals Plumbing is looking at, and if any
> would fit those interested in low-level stuff. I have done a lot of work
> with low-level C/C++, PIC and x86 asm, and various embedded tasks,
> especially DSP and RTOSes on microcontrollers.

I think the answer is "yes." The Plumbing tools are written in
occam-pi, which on small platforms runs on top of the Transterpreter
(transterpreter.org). It is a small, portable virtual machine for
CSP-based programming languages. We imagine that there are project
opportunities up-and-down the software stack---that is, projects in
the interpreted space of user-code and libraries as well as work that
might be done within the VM itself.

That's a quick answer, anyway. We're certainly excited to find out
what our status is tomorrow. We'll certainly announce through this
list and other channels if Google thinks our project looks awesome
enough to support.

Cheers,
Matt


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>
> Thanks,
> Xo Wang
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