Re: Summer of Code Preparation

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 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!
>>>
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