Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-06 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:31:01AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > 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 PostgreS

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-06 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 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 a

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Josh Berkus" wrote > > Sure, although the important part is to find students. I'm not sure how we > do that. > I noticed two email domains are @mit.edu and @cs.toronto.edu but I am afraid both of them are not students any more :-) Regards, Qingqing ---(end of broadc

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
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 sur

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Jim Nasby
From the main website, hit developers, roadmap and then the TODO link on that page. On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Nathan Buchanan wrote: A list of simpler TODOs would be great. I might be interested in doing something (probably w/o the summer of code because I have a summer job). We'll see a

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Jim Nasby
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

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 5, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Sure, although the important part is to find students. I'm not sure how we do that. Do we have any professors online? I'm not one, but I know some. If there is a link with details and perhaps a list of possible projects, I'll be happ

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Josh Berkus wrote: Robert, 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

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, > 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 puttin

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Robert Treat
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 so

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Nathan Buchanan
A list of simpler TODOs would be great. I might be interested in doing something (probably w/o the summer of code because I have a summer job). We'll see after exams finish. Please post something about where we can find this TODO list when it is available. Thanks, NathanOn 4/5/06, Jim Nasby <[EMA

Re: [HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-05 Thread Jim Nasby
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

[HACKERS] Summer of Code Preparation

2006-04-04 Thread Josh Berkus
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 g