As you may notice, we have a new design that fits in much better with the design of the rest of the site. Enjoy!

Google Summer of Code will pay you $4500 if you complete an open-source project over summer. Only two questions:

1. When will PLT Scheme join the list of participating organisations?
2. Where do I sign up?

Seriously, Untyped and other ventures are keeping me busy enough that participating isn’t really viable. However this does look like an excellent opportunity for both OSS projects, and developers with free time.

I’ve just become aware that a lot of the PLT crew are keeping blogs. Worth checking out if Lambda the Ultimate doesn’t provide you with enough daily programming language theory are:

• The Little Calculist (Dave Herman)
• Keep Working, Worker Bee! (Jacob Matthews)
• Mitch’s Clippings (Mitch Wand)

Jacob’s blog is particularly interesting to me for two reasons:

• He’s talking a bit about commercial applications of PLT Scheme, something that we’re trying to do at Untyped
• He’s got a great paper showing how a pile of programming language theory can be applied to solve a problem way better than anyone else has solved it before, which is something we’rereally into!

Everything must have a beginning. This is ours.