Hello Students!
I sent the following suggestions to a couple of students who applied, but thought they might be good tips for everyone planning to apply. The suggestions are ...
1) A more extensive proposal outlining your experience with java and database, your experience if any with Derby, and a more detailed plan of the work you would like to do this summer. Ideally, you should indicate some specific Jira issues that are of interest to you. Finally please indicate your availability this summer. How many hours a week will you be working on Derby? Outline other commitments such as school or work, and specify any dates that you will be not be available because of vacation etc.
2) Evidence of community involvement. We like to see students that have had some interaction with the development community. See http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_comm.html for information on getting involved. Right now we are testing our upcoming release and that might be a good way to get involved with little setup.
Please send an email to derby-dev@db.apache.org if you have any questions about getting involved or preparing your proposal. Also all proposals so far have been for derby-testandfix and derby-sequence-generators. You may also want to consider applying for one of the other projects, derby-dblook-authorization or derby-optimizer-fixes. dblook was added later so you may not have seen it.
http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009 Thanks and I look forward to seeing your applications. Kathey Marsden
