--- "David W. Van Couvering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all. It is possible that Google will want to do another Summer of > Code this year. Google pays students to join open source communities as > interns for the summer. While Google uses this as an opportunity to > identify the best and brightest up-and-coming coders, it is also a > useful opportunity for open source projects to get issues addressed, new > avenues explored and bugs fixed - and potentially to recruit new > community members and gain a raised public profile. > > It would be great if Apache Derby could participate in this.
I think this is a great idea, and I hope we participate in it. [ snip ] > What I'd like to suggest is the following: > > - Who would like to be the contact point? I am thinking Jean Anderson, > as our community liason extraordinaire. Instead of suggesting who might be appropriate for this, how about if we ask for a volunteer, instead? Jean may be willing to take this on, but I think in the spirit of "scratching your own itch" it's feels better to volunteer for a task without feeling like it may have been assigned to you. Susan
