Welcome to the BEAM Community

The BEAM Community is a group of projects that run on the Erlang VM. Our goal is to host relevant projects in the Erlang and Elixir communities, making it easy for those projects to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) (and similar initiatives), giving interested students a wide range of projects to choose from.

The Erlang VM was originally designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. Many companies around the world like Amazon, Heroku and Activision use the Erlang VM in their stack and databases such as CouchDB, Riak, BarrelDB, ejabberd XMPP server, Nerves project and programming languages like Elixir are built on top of it too.

BEAM Community applied to be a Mentor Organization in 2019 and results will be announced on February 26, 2019.

Google Summer of Code 2019

This year, nine BEAM Community projects have been suggested for GSoC:

You can learn more on our Projects & Ideas Wiki and subscribe to our mailing list or join us at #beam-community on irc.freenode.net.

I'm a student, what should I do?

Now is a great time to get started! Go over our Projects & Ideas Wiki and pick the projects and ideas that interest you the most! Also, subscribe to our mailing list and join us at #beam-community on irc.freenode.net.

Students should pick their projects and submit proposals between March 25, 2019 - April 9, 2019. We recommend students to work closely with mentors in order to craft the best proposals. Our mailing list is the best place to ask questions and get more details about our projects!

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