Re: GSoC 2011 - Mentors? Projects?

Le 26/03/2011 02:43, Tomas Vondra a écrit :
> Dne 26.3.2011 02:05, Joshua Berkus napsal(a):
>> Tomas,
>>
>>> I spoke to a teacher from a local university last week, mainly as we
>>> were looking for a place where a local PUG could meet regularly. I
>>> realized this could be a good opportunity to head-hunt some students
>>> to
>>> participate in this GSoC. Are we still interested in new students?
>>
>> Yes, please! We have had students from Charles University several
>> times before, and would be glad to have more. The wiki page has
>> links to the information about the program. Talk to Zdenek if you
>> have more questions.
>>
>
> I know Zdenek was mentoring some students in the previous years, but
> he's been a bit hard to reach recently. And the deadline is near.
>
> I've read some info about the program on a wiki, but I'm not sure what
> should the students do. Let's say they will read the list of project
> ideas on the wiki, and they'll choose one or two of them. What should
> they do next? Should they write to the pgsql-students mailing list?
>

They could write to the pgsql-students list. There are already some
threads about items to work on.

> I guess most of the students won't have much experience with PostgreSQL,
> and most of the ideas is described just very briefly, so they'll need
> help with the proposal.
>

Sure. Two lists AFAICT, pgsql_students and pgsql-hackers.

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