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 Please direct any questions or suggestions you have to osp / janestcapital.com. Thank you for your time - I return you to your regularly scheduled ruby discussion. -David