Re: Google's Summer of Code ...

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? 
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>Robert Treat
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>On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:53, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
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>>Marc,
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>>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.
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>>If anyone sees a problem with submitting under the PostgreSQL Global
>>Development Group, I can do it under my company.
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>>Thoughts?
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>>Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>>>In case nobody has seen this:
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>>>    http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
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>>>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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