New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>
>> Yes, of course. I was hoping that Emanual (who is apparently
>> interested in this topic, or at least in improving Elisp)
>> can be the one.
> ...
> You need to reach out to the young guys studying math at
> universities today, one thinks all they do all day is math but
> almost _all_ of them are into computers as well, how many will
> use Emacs I don't know but this is the person you want for
> this job :)

Hmm. This reminds me of Google Summer of Code.
Eli, have you considered using GSC to get volunteers for implementing
some moderately difficult Emacs features? Since GSC provides financial
incentive, it may be possible to get student volunteers.

Of course, someone still needs to mentor the students, but that's less
effort compared to actually writing all the code.

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