Greetings -hackers, Google Summer of Code is back for 2019! They have a similar set of requirements, expectations, and timeline as last year.
Now is the time to be working to get together a set of projects we'd like to have GSoC students work on over the summer. Similar to last year, we need to have a good set of projects for students to choose from in advance of the deadline for mentoring organizations. The deadline for Mentoring organizations to apply is: February 6. The list of accepted organization will be published around February 26. Unsurprisingly, we'll need to have an Ideas page again, so I've gone ahead and created one (copying last year's): https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2019 Google discusses what makes a good "Ideas" list here: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html All the entries are marked with '2018' to indicate they were pulled from last year. If the project from last year is still relevant, please update it to be '2019' and make sure to update all of the information (in particular, make sure to list yourself as a mentor and remove the other mentors, as appropriate). New entries are certainly welcome and encouraged, just be sure to note them as '2019' when you add it. Projects from last year which were worked on but have significant follow-on work to be completed are absolutely welcome as well- simply update the description appropriately and mark it as being for '2019'. When we get closer to actually submitting our application, I'll clean out the '2018' entries that didn't get any updates. As a reminder, each idea on the page should be in the format that the other entries are in and should include: - Project title/one-line description - Brief, 2-5 sentence, description of the project (remember, these are 12-week projects) - Description of programming skills needed and estimation of the difficulty level - List of potential mentors - Expected Outcomes As with last year, please consider PostgreSQL to be an "Umbrella" project and that anything which would be considered "PostgreSQL Family" per the News/Announce policy [2] is likely to be acceptable as a PostgreSQL GSoC project. In other words, if you're a contributor or developer on barman, pgBackRest, the PostgreSQL website (pgweb), the PgEU/PgUS website code (pgeu-website), pgAdmin4, PostgresXL, pgbouncer, Citus, pldebugger, the PG RPMs (pgrpms), the JDBC driver, the ODBC driver, or any of the many other PG Family projects, please feel free to add a project for consideration! If we get quite a few, we can organize the page further based on which project or maybe what skills are needed or similar. Let's have another great year of GSoC with PostgreSQL! Thanks! Stephen [1]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [2]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval
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