Re: Enticing interns to PostgreSQL

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:43:04PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > The email below about FreeBSD's involvement in Google's Summer of Code
> > got me thinking; would there be value in trying to attract college
> > students to working on either PostgreSQL development, or using
> > PostgreSQL in projects? Even though we missed getting in on the summer
> > of code this year, ISTM that we could try targeting colleges,
> > professors, and students directly. When it comes to development, I'm
> > sure there's any number of TODO items that would make great coursework,
> > for all different levels of students. As for using PostgreSQL, perhaps
> > we could get database classes together with projects that could use
> > help.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> I am planning to take a database course at a major university this fall.
> If you have any materials that might help I'd be happy to see if the
> professor is interested. I don't know what the course uses currently,
> but I expect there will be opportunities to mention PostgreSQL.
>
> Also, there's a PostgreSQL project that I'm planning on working on (not
> even much work left, really), so I'll see if the professor shows any
> interest in my project.

Well, since the typical belief is that MySQL is a good choice for
things, http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html is probably a good start.
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