Re: Google's Summer of Code ...

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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> One concern that was raised off of this list was the steep learning curve to
> start with, to get to the point of beign able to do anything ...
>
> Do we have any 'students' that are already up to speed, enough so that they'd
> be able to accomplish something significant over a 2-3 month period?

I have a student who is already working on developing custom access method
to very large astronomical catalogues. Also, Ramy Hassan (rhassan(at)cs(dot)purdue(dot)edu)
from Purdue University is working on SP-GiST and I think his work would be
well suited for Google program.

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> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
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>> Are there any restrictions on 'mentor groups'? For instance, could we
>> create a 'mentors' mailing list, closed subscriptions, that contained those
>> willing to actively mentor, so that those being mentor'd have multiple
>> ppl's knowledge's to feed upon?
>>
>> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
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>>> 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? Robert Treat
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:53, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Marc,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone sees a problem with submitting under the PostgreSQL Global
>>>>> Development Group, I can do it under my company.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In case nobody has seen this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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Oleg
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