The deadline for GSoC applications is fast approaching. I’d totally forgotten about it until the obligatory CoC thread, so I hadn’t given it the slightest bit of thought until the last couple of days.

Now that I remember it exists though, I really want to enter. Despite my recent, um, problems with anything resembling writing a program, and the fact that to date I have not written a single program exceeding about five hundred lines. I have to start somewhere, I suppose? A GUI for darcs, written in Haskell, is probably not the best place, though. But it would be fun!

Pros

• Something to do
• Might actually *gasp* do something useful
• Helping darcs
• CV++
• Money :v

Cons

• Difficult
• Requires attention span
• Takes time
• Hindering darcs with half-arsed contributions

So, will I apply? Ideally I’d say I’ll consider it. Really though, inertia means I probably won’t. Maybe next year.

edit: Obviously I don’t absolutely positively have to do a darcs GUI. It’s just something that caught my eye. Also Boost.SafeInt, which looks pretty easy, but if it’s as easy as it looks to me then someone with actual C++ knowledge would’ve done it in about an afternoon, so it’s probably not.

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