Re: Google Summer of Code

[Jamison Hope]

Hi Wendy,

On Mar 18, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Alicia Carlo <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> my name is Wendy Figueroa and I am interested in participating in the Google 
> summer of code, and I came across your 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Ideas-and-tasks.html project. Specifically, 
> the project that aims to add Common Lisp support to Kawa. I've never worked 
> on a project like this, but I'm very interested. I have some experience in 
> ANSI Common Lisp and Emacs Scheme. Can you please go into a little more 
> detail as to what I would need to do, and any reading material I'd need to be 
> familiar with?

The description there is intentionally vague because it's an open-ended
problem -- Kawa's Common Lisp implementation is very incomplete, and so
there are lots of areas that need attention.

Please subscribe to the Kawa mailing list and introduce yourself there,
as this isn't the right place to discuss Kawa in detail.

http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Mailing-lists.html

[A good place to start might be to think of some things that you like
about Common Lisp, and then ask on the list whether those things are
supported in Kawa yet (the answer will probably be no) and how much
effort would be involved in making them work.]

Thank you for your interest, and welcome to the Kawa community!

--
Jamison Hope
The PTR Group
www.theptrgroup.com