outreachy.yml

rounds:
  - name: Summer 2014
    projects:
      - title: "MirageOS contributions and improvements"
        description: ""
        mentee: "Mindy Preston"
        blog: http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/08/22/opw-fin/
        source: https://github.com/mirage
        mentors:
          - Richard Mortier
          - Anil Madhavapeddy
      - title: "MirageOS cloud API support"
        description: |
          MirageOS (see http://xenproject.org/developers/teams/mirage-os.html,
          http://www.openmirage.org/) is a type-safe unikernel written in OCaml
          which generates highly specialised "appliance" VMs that run directly
          on Xen without requiring an intervening kernel. A MirageOS
          application typically runs via several communicating kernel instances
          on the cloud. Today these instances are difficult to manage; we would
          like to explore strategies for managing these distributed
          computations using common public cloud APIs such as those exposed by
          Amazon EC2 and Rackspace.

          First we need to create pure OCaml API bindings for (e.g.) EC2 and
          Rackspace (purity is needed to ensure portability). These API
          bindings can then be used to provide operating-system-level
          abstractions to the unikernels. For example, a traditional VM might
          hotplug a vCPU; while a MirageOS application would request a "VM create"
          using the cloud API and "connect" the new instance to the existing
          network. We should be able to spin up 1000s of "CPUs" by using such
          APIs in a cluster environment.

          As well as helping Xen/Mirage, the public cloud API bindings will be
          very useful to other people in other contexts -- a nice side-effect.
        mentee: "Jyotsna Prakash"
        blog: http://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2014/08/22/opw-fin/
        source: https://github.com/moonlightdrive/ocaml-ec2
        mentors:
          - David Scott
          - Anil Madhavapeddy
  - name: Winter 2015
    projects:
      - title: "NTP Support for MirageOS"
        description: ""
        mentee: "Kia"
        blog: "https://matildah.github.io"
        source: https://github.com/softminus/mirage-ntp
        mentors:
          - Hannes Mehnert
  - name: Summer 2016
    projects:
      - title: "MirageOS"
        description: ""
        mentee: Gina Marie Maini
        blog: https://github.com/wiredsister
        source: https://github.com/verbosemode/syslogd-mirage
        mentors:
          - Mindy Preston
  - name: Summer 2019
    projects:
      - title: "Test the OCaml compiler with code coverage tools"
        description: ""
        mentee: "Oxana Kostikova"
        blog: "https://lereenadem.wixsite.com/personal"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
        mentors:
         - Sébastien Hinderer
         - Florian Angeletti
      - title: "Test the OCaml compiler with random tests and a reference interpreter"
        description: >
          The aim of this project is to extend an existing testcase-generator for the OCaml compiler,
          using a reference interpreter (existing or newly developed) to find a lot of bugs in the compiler,
          and fix as much of them as possible.
        mentee: "Ulugbek Abdullaev"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
        blog: "https://ulugbekna.github.io"
        mentors:
         - Gabriel Scherer
         - Jan Midtgaard
  - name: Summer 2020
    projects:
      - title: "Reducing global mutable state in the OCaml compiler codebase"
        description: ""
        mentee: "Anukriti Kumar"
        blog: "https://anukriti12.github.io"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
        mentors:
         - Guillaume Bury
         - Vincent Laviron
      - title: "Structured output format for the OCaml compiler messages"
        description: >
          Usually, the output messages from the compiler are a bit more difficult to read for a machine
          and hence it's more time consuming to find the warnings, errors, etc. and their origin. By producing
          a structured output for compiler messages, other tools can more easily interoperate with them and
          provide tooling on top of the messages.
        mentee: "Muskan Garg"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml
        blog: "https://medium.com/@muskangarg994/outreachy-101-d285507c54f7"
        mentors:
         - Florian Angeletti
  - name: Summer 2021
    projects:
      - title: "Create opam package search"
        description: >
          opam is the source-based package manager for OCaml code. This project comprises of writing a new web
          client for rendering output from the opam package database. There is a JSON endpoint on opam.ocaml.org
          which provides information about packages which would provide metadata about the packages.  We can extend
          this JSON metadata to include all the opam packages (not just the top 10) and use that to power a search
          frontend for the website. This may include presenting the data as a GraphQL endpoint with the frontend
          querying that endpoint using GraphQL.
        mentee: "Odinaka Joy"
        blog: "https://www.dinakajoy.com"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org
        mentors:
         - Sonja Heinze
         - Patrick Ferris
      - title: "Improve the ocaml.org website"
        description: >
          OCaml.org is the main website for OCaml, a functional, typed, high-level programming language. This project
          revolves around improving the website on multiple different fronts including: layout, accessibility and content.
        mentee: "Diksha Gupta"
        blog: "https://dikshagupta99.wordpress.com/blog/"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org
        mentors:
         - Isabella Leandersson
         - Patrick Ferris
         - Gargi Sharma
      - title: "Improve the ocaml.org website"
        description: >
          OCaml.org is the main website for OCaml, a functional, typed, high-level programming language. This project
          revolves around improving the website on multiple different fronts including: layout, accessibility and content.
        mentee: "Shreya kumari Gupta"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org
        blog: "https://shreyaswikriti693235797.wordpress.com/blog/"
        mentors:
         - Isabella Leandersson
         - Anil Madhavapeddy
         - Patrick Ferris
         - Gargi Sharma
  - name: Winter 2021
    projects:
      - title: "Build a monitoring dashboard for OCaml.org"
        description: ""
        mentee: "Jiae Kam"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org
        blog: "https://jiaek.wordpress.com"
        mentors:
         - Thibaut Mattio
         - Patrik Keller
        video: https://watch.ocaml.org/w/eSSmoyEcPTEXPGAqDtKENX?start=40m53s
      - title: "Improve the OCaml meta-programming ecosystem"
        description: |
          It's common for programming languages to provide some way to meta-program
          in order to preprocess code before reaching the last compilation step,
          for example, in the form of macros or templates. The OCaml compiler
          doesn't provide a full built-in macro system, but the OCaml parser does
          provide syntax for preprocessing purposes: attributes
          (https://v3.ocaml.org/docs/metaprogramming#attributes-and-derivers) and
          extension points
          (https://v3.ocaml.org/docs/metaprogramming#extension-nodes-and-extenders).
          We -the OCaml community- also have an official framework, called
          `ppxlib`, to write preprocessors -called PPXs- based on that syntax and
          integrate them into the compilation process.

          However, it's on the OCaml community to write and provide important PPXs
          to the OCaml developers. We've noticed that having the most important
          PPXs under the official PPX github organization -next to `ppxlib`- is
          helpful: developers can easily find them; developers can trust them;
          they're well-written and hygienic, so that developers can use them as
          how-to guides for writing other PPXs. In this project, you'll write
          one or some of those official standard PPXs.
        mentee: "Aya Sharaf"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppxlib
        blog: "https://outreachyxocaml.wordpress.com"
        mentors:
         - Shon Feder
         - Sonja Heinze
         - Patrik Keller
        video: https://watch.ocaml.org/w/eSSmoyEcPTEXPGAqDtKENX
      - title: "Support .eml files in OCaml's VSCode extension"
        description: ""
        source: https://github.com/ocamllabs/vscode-ocaml-platform
        mentee: "Sayo Bamigbade"
        blog: "https://saysayoblog.wordpress.com"
        mentors:
         - Thibaut Mattio
         - Gargi Sharma
         - Patrik Keller
        video: https://watch.ocaml.org/w/eSSmoyEcPTEXPGAqDtKENX?start=20m04s
  - name: Summer 2022
    projects:
      - title: "Expand OCaml 5.0 Parallel Benchmark suite"
        description: >
          OCaml 5.0 will be live soon! It ships with support for shared-memory parallelism and concurrency
          OCaml has missed all these years. This will be accompanied by a robust set of Multicore libraries
          useful for parallel programming. The Multicore compiler and libraries are under active development
          and will continue to evolve as the OCaml ecosystem moves towards Multicore.

          For assessing the impact of new features in the OCaml compiler and Multicore libraries, we have a
          set of sequential and parallel benchmarks present in our benchmark suite. While the sequential benchmarks
          contain many real-world applications, a wider set of parallel benchmarks would be useful.

          This project entails gathering the parallel benchmarks available at various places like
          https://github.com/ckoparkar/ocaml-benchmarks and making them available in the benchmark suite.
        mentee: "Moazzam Moriani"
        blog: "https://moazzammoriani.github.io/mm/"
        source: https://github.com/ocaml-bench/sandmark
        mentors:
         - Sudha Parimala
        video: https://watch.ocaml.org/w/vXJtTj3cULRa1bZB5HrecX
      - title: "Extend OCaml's GeoJSON library to support TopoJSON"
        description: >
          TopoJSON is an extension to GeoJSON to encode topology. This allows for redundant data
          to be removed and file sizes to be greatly reduced. This is often very desirable especially
          when working with data in the browser. This project looks to extend ocaml-geojson to support TopoJSON.
        mentee: "Jay Dev Jha"
        blog: "https://jaydevdotcom.wordpress.com/home/"
        source: https://github.com/geocaml/ocaml-topojson
        mentors:
         - Patrick Ferris
        video: https://watch.ocaml.org/w/vXJtTj3cULRa1bZB5HrecX?start=42m52s
  - name: Winter 2022
    projects:
      - title: "Implement a non-blocking, streaming codec for TopoJSON"
        description: >
          TopoJSON is an extension to GeoJSON to encode topology. This allows for redundant data to be removed and file
          sizes to be greatly reduced. This is often very desirable especially when working with data in the browser. In a previous
          Outreachy internship a new OCaml library was implemented to provide an OCaml library for TopoJSON, this project will
          build on this adding more functionality to the library and providing a non-blocking, streaming codec version similar
          to the geojsone library.
        mentee: "Prisca Chidimma Maduka"
        source: https://github.com/geocaml/ocaml-topojson
        blog: "https://prisca-chidimma.dreamwidth.org"
        mentors:
         - Patrick Ferris
         - Odinaka Joy
        video: https://watch.ocaml.org/w/pQSAfZ9kDSsSnr8Bxzocn3