(Em, been sending these to the wrong list all day. Here they are...)
Other thoughts for the summer of code...
* I don't know if such a thing exists already: use SWIG to generate
the FFI for C libraries.
* Languages running on Gambit: e.g. implement Ruby or Javascript
compiling to Gambit, at least simple demonstrations of those languages
for the summer. A neat demo would be subsets of Ruby, Javascript, and
Scheme compiling into their own shared-nothing processes (much like
Termite), and allowing them to pass constant Scheme data or maybe JSON
structures back and forth to each other.
(And then use that XMPP client I suggested earlier to pass these
things to other Gambit processes on other machines.)