Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote:

> One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS projects 
> that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students work on 
> those...

As nice an idea as this is, we'd also need to quickly co-ordinate with 
those projects to make sure that there is a semblance of a chance of 
having those patches included in their distribution ... I realize that the 
Code of Summer program doesn't need a guarantee that the code will be 
committed, but if we're going to do something like the above, would rather 
see it done for projects that wanted the end results ...


 >
> As for finding students, I believe a call on -general and -announce would 
> probably produce results. I know there's some professors on the lists (most 
> likely to be on -general...)
>
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Robert Treat wrote:
>
>> Summer of Code projects dont have to revolve around the core project... for
>> example drupal got like 11 projects last year and bricolage got a few too; 
>> I
>> got a small list of items that could be looked at that are sort of 3rd 
>> party
>> projects, should we attempt to collaborate on putting up a list some place?
>> 
>> Robert Treat
>> 
>> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:22, Jim Nasby wrote:
>>> If nothing else, any of the 'beginner todo' items are likely
>>> candidates, though I suspect none of them individually are enough
>>> work for an entire summer.
>>> 
>>> If no one beats me to it, I'll try and compile a list of likely TODOs
>>> for this.
>>> 
>>> On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>> 
>>>> I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon.  We
>>>> need to be
>>>> ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the
>>>> PostgreSQL project.
>>>> Which means we need:
>>>> 
>>>> a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
>>>> b) Students to do them.
>>>> 
>>>> We have one or two weeks to get this together.  Your help is greatly
>>>> desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me
>>>> a line!
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Josh Berkus
>>>> Aglio Database Solutions
>>>> San Francisco
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