Re: Google's Summer of Code ...

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> One concern that was raised off of this list was the steep learning curve to 
> start with, to get to the point of beign able to do anything ...
>
> Do we have any 'students' that are already up to speed, enough so that they'd 
> be able to accomplish something significant over a 2-3 month period?

I have a student who is already working on developing custom access method
to very large astronomical catalogues. Also, Ramy Hassan (rhassan@cs.purdue.edu)
from Purdue University is working on SP-GiST and I think his work would be
well suited for Google program.


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> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> Are there any restrictions on 'mentor groups'?  For instance, could we 
>> create a 'mentors' mailing list, closed subscriptions, that contained those 
>> willing to actively mentor, so that those being mentor'd have multiple 
>> ppl's knowledge's to feed upon?
>> 
>> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
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>>> My participation would be limited to the actual number of newcomers.  I 
>>> feel comfortable helping 2 or 3 people; any more than that would impact my 
>>> clients and consulting time.  Although, it would never hurt to have 
>>> additional mentors :).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Robert Treat wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We have a whole TODO list of potential items for people to work on, and 
>>>> we have several member of this list that work for universities in some 
>>>> capacity, so istm we ought to give it a shot.  I would think this is 
>>>> something that the foundation would be good to be involved in as well, as 
>>>> it would certainly help it all appear official.  We just need to tie up 
>>>> the loose ends on who would be available to do the mentoring, which might 
>>>> need to be different people depending on the work involved, unless you 
>>>> think you could handle all comers Jonah? Robert Treat
>>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:53, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Marc,
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you wanted to submit PostgreSQL to Google for this, I'd be willing to
>>>>> work with any potentials.  Should someone choose to work on PostgreSQL
>>>>> projects, the money can go to the group.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If anyone sees a problem with submitting under the PostgreSQL Global
>>>>> Development Group, I can do it under my company.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> In case nobody has seen this:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Might be something to help fun, say, the GiST stuff?  Just need to
>>>>>> find a student that could be mentor'd/directed/brought up to speed?
>>>>>> 
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