# OCaml Summer Project

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocaml-summer-project/85358>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 12, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocaml-summer-project/85358 "2007-02-12T22:41:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Powers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@David\_Powers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/David_Powers)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ocaml-summer-project/85358/1 "2007-02-12T22:41:19Z")

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Firstly, my apologies for the off-topic post, but many of the admirable  
language design qualities of OCaml apply to ruby, and my hope is to get  
the  
news below out to potentially interested folk who may not be using OCaml  
as a  
day-to-day language.

That said…

We are pleased to announce the OCaml Summer Project. The project is  
aimed at  
encouraging growth in the OCaml community by funding students over the  
summer  
to work on open-source projects in OCaml. At the end of the summer, we  
will  
fly all of the students who have completed their projects successfully  
out for  
a meeting in New York, where people will present their projects and get  
a  
chance to shmooze with other members of the OCaml community.

The project is being funded and run by Jane Street Capital. We make  
extensive  
use of OCaml here at Jane Street for real day to day work, and are  
excited  
about the idea of encouraging and growing the functional programming  
community.

If you’d like to learn more about the project, you can look at our  
website  
here:

[http://osp2007.janestcapital.com](http://osp2007.janestcapital.com)

Please direct any questions or suggestions you have to  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid.

Thank you for your time - I return you to your regularly scheduled  
ruby discussion.

-David