This year's JSSP projects have been selected. We think it's an exciting list of projects, and we're pleased that this year the projects support a number of different programming language communities outside of OCaml. Here's the list, along with abstracts:

The application period for this year's summer project is now closed, and we have an interesting collection of proposals to choose between. The proposals use a number of languages (in particular, Scheme, SML, F#, Haskell and OCaml), looking to address a wide variety of different problem types.

We'll get out acknowledgments to everyone who sent in a proposal within the next couple of days.

I am pleased to announce the Jane Street Summer Project for 2009! The goal of the program is to encourage growth in the functional programming community. To do that, we will fund students over the summer to work on open-source projects aimed at making functional languages into more effective and practical tools for programming in the real world.

End end-of-summer meeting has come and gone, and it was a lot of fun. A recap of the meeting can be found here, on Jane Street’s OCaml blog.

The end-of-summer meeting will be on Friday, September 12. There will be a series of talks and demos given by the project teams, held at Jane Street’s Manhattan office:

33rd floor
1 New York Plaza
New York, NY 10004

We have a limited amount of space in the room where the talks and demos will be held, and would like to open it up for those who want to come. If you would like to come, please send mail to sweeks@janestcapital.com. You will receive a reply confirming availability.

Here is the schedule.

Friday, September 12th

If you look at the previous post, you should now have links to the proposals for the projects in question. Enjoy…

The OSP decisions are finally in. We got an impressive collection of proposals, and from that collection we’ve selected six that we think can make a real contribution to the OCaml ecosystem. Here is a quick description of the proposals we’ve selected:

It’s now April 1st, so we are no longer accepting more OSP proposals. It looks like a strong collection of proposals (many of them coming in the last couple of days; don’t underestimate the power of a deadline.) Happily, I think we’ll have some hard decisions to make.

Our original announcement was somewhat vague on deadlines, so I wanted to be more explicit. We will accept applications until the end of March, and we will respond finally to all applications by the second week of April.

We already have a number of very interesting applications, and we hope to see more as the month progresses.

I am pleased to announce the second OCaml Summer Project! The OSP is again aimed at encouraging growth in the OCaml community by funding students over the summer to work on open-source projects in OCaml.

While our goals are the same, the project this year is going to be run differently. The biggest change is that we’re aiming at getting more faculty involvement. We are requiring joint applications from the student or students who will be working on the project, and from a faculty member who both recommends the students and will mentor them throughout the project.