I wanted to get the ball started, so we could be ready for student interaction. A few ideas are already in JIRA. I will add the missing ones.
Thanks, Preston On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, those all should be fun projects and helpful projects. > > The next steps for us be to add those projects to JIRA with a GSoC tag, as > that's where people will look for it. > I think that we're still a little early, as the mentoring organizations > will only be finalized in February. > But I think that it's a safe bet that the ASF will be in and it's good to > do the project descriptions now. > > Cheers, > Till > > > On 26 Jan 2015, at 20:32, Michael Carey wrote: > > Those all sound like excellent projects! >> UCI is also running a summer intern program for selected foreign >> undergrads. >> That might be another source of help, especially for something like the >> first project. >> >> Cheers, >> Mike >> >> On 1/26/15 7:23 PM, Eldon Carman wrote: >> >>> Google Summer of Code (GSOC) is just around the corner and I wanted to >>> suggest a few ideas. >>> >>> - XMark Benchmark - VXQuery still needs more XQuery coverage to run all >>> the >>> XMark queries. >>> - HDFS Support - Many organizations are saving data to HDFS and it would >>> be >>> great if VXQuery could read this data. In addition, the VXQuery cluster >>> could even be managed by Yarn. >>> - XML Indexing - Previous work was done on indexing XML, but the project >>> was never fully integrated into VXQuery. It would be nice to fully >>> integrate XML indexing into VXQuery. >>> >>> What are the next steps for us (VXQuery) to participate in GSOC? >>> >>>
