From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Price Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: [ANN] the Guile 100 Programs Project Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:40:13 +0000 Message-ID: <8738xggf82.fsf@Kagami.home> References: <1359587062.94850.YahooMailNeo@web120403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359736829 26948 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2013 16:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 16:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile User To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 17:40:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U1JfT-0007dP-J3 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:40:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1JfB-0006fc-Ei for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:40:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37257) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1Jf6-0006fX-BO for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:40:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1Jf1-0007Aj-7z for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:39047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1Jf1-0007Ac-1G for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:40:19 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id ez12so789919wid.17 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:40:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cCCCmS6mtDChLFVCAarVnCd3ii8rquWO3smnyomg3yo=; b=tOJnJXudpxRMmjWoLkm7PFEeV28TB3q1POrp7hvmNAvTu+2bpDNmWnfAqFD20XuMjd 5UtpEbLBPzgDhHFShxJpfygSi/ML8luWKWuSrPXvQFA6jDI6qzr8B/60zbEdjWSdIEGM JXoKguLgpm8QLy/0CT1Tco0Dtg3SI6tCFG8UjH/gbfO5ZCXYdBgEVe2gEChi6EH4A+rL kIgOg0qQrmMgnKq3NlhwZgVOKgCi2iH14kHzBxWK069WbN82YyBN4vWrcbvrZXA2gjzp AvvBGGivRr9hmSUBab8olzAV7syRZWXFZLvCzlpX2HzEJ3pHAb5eO6/REBrPrFYhH4M8 EiNg== X-Received: by 10.180.94.234 with SMTP id df10mr4056102wib.17.1359736817638; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:40:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Kagami.home (host86-151-72-224.range86-151.btcentralplus.com. [86.151.72.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bd7sm4699977wib.8.2013.02.01.08.40.16 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:40:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1359587062.94850.YahooMailNeo@web120403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:04:22 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.212.172 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:9976 Archived-At: Mike Gran writes: > Hello.=A0 I'm pleased to announce the upcoming Guile 100 Programs > Project. > =A0 > The Guile 100 Programs Project is an opportunity to show off your > Guile skills in exchange for a small honorarium. > =A0 > Each week, on Monday, I'll announce a coding project and ask for > volunteers.=A0 On Wednesday, a volunteer will be chosen at random from > all entrants.=A0 The volunteer will have two weeks to complete the task. > If judged to have completed the task correctly, he or she will receive > a honorarium of 100 USD. > =A0 > The task will either be a Scheme script, a bug fix on an existing > project, or a C code with Guile bindings. Cool idea. The Guile community is kinda small, and so it'd be nice to see some of our quieter members incentivised to hack more openly. > The first two tasks to be announced will likely be > =A0 > Mar 11, 2013 - Implement a version of the commands `cat' and > `echo' in Scheme. > =A0 > Mar 18, 2013 - Implement a reduced functionality version of the > command `ls' in Scheme. Heh, reimplementing coreutils in Scheme has been a plan of mine for a while, as part of justifying my Iteratees library, but that has taken a sideline to newer and shinier projects. --=20 Ian Price -- shift-reset.com "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"