Hi Rui, Nice idea. Indeed it would be great if Calcite could participate in GSoC.
It crossed my mind a few times but then I thought about the amount of open PRs that we have in our backlog and it didn't really make sense at that point. Personally, I would prefer to invest my free time (when I have) to mentor those new contributors opening PRs than commit to help others that have not yet started. Having said that, if there is somebody who wants to push forward a specific feature/idea then why not. Best, Stamatis On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:21 PM Francis Chuang <[email protected]> wrote: > There was some discussion about having students contribute to the > project as part of GSoC in the past, but I don't think it has happened > before. > > See: > - > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b4cb29fdfc5128386081401f75d99e888cd2af7cc79a8d0d63df2af7%401455998281%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > - > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c0ef0701658caaa0c51b04c33da99bdde621d83fc0fb5aa0e319347e%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > In the past, Michael had some students working on parts of Calcite, but > not in GSoC capacity: > - > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f0ea9594f151e7f6ad9b7f305fc2c87d99f64acac2cc76e179a1a1f7%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E > > I would definitely love to see this happen. It would be a great > opportunity for students to learn something new and interesting and a > good opportunity for the project as well. > > Francis > > On 26/02/2021 6:44 am, Rui Wang wrote: > > Hi community, > > > > Does Calcite ever participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) [1]. What > do > > you think of creating smaller projects and allowing students to pick them > > up? > > > > I used to host two GSoC students for Apache Beam and I found the > > collaboration was smooth and students could add valuable additions to the > > project. > > > > > > > > [1]: https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > > > -Rui > > >
