The email below about FreeBSD's involvement in Google's Summer of Code got me thinking; would there be value in trying to attract college students to working on either PostgreSQL development, or using PostgreSQL in projects? Even though we missed getting in on the summer of code this year, ISTM that we could try targeting colleges, professors, and students directly. When it comes to development, I'm sure there's any number of TODO items that would make great coursework, for all different levels of students. As for using PostgreSQL, perhaps we could get database classes together with projects that could use help.
Thoughts? ----- Forwarded message from Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in the Google "Summer of Code" program designed to introduce students to open source software development. The FreeBSD Project received over 350 applications, amongst which 18 projects have been selected for funding. Unfortunately, due to the limited number of spots available, we were unable to fund many first rate applications. However, we encourage students to work together with us all year round. The FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists and development forums. Contributing to an open source software project is a valuable component of a computer science education and great preparation for a career in software development. More information about the student projects is available from the FreeBSD Summer of Code Wiki here : http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/SummerOfCode2005 The Wiki will soon be updated with information about downloading the work in progress with CVSup. We'd like to close by thanking Google for their generosity and congratulating the 18 talented students below. - The FreeBSD Summer of Code Mentors -- Student: Anders Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: FreeBSD userland/kernel interface cleanups Mentor: Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Student: Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: Integrate BSD Installer Mentor: re@, ru@, jhb@ Student: Brian Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: UFS Journalling Mentor: scottl@ Student: Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: Gvinum 'move', 'rename', etc.. Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Christoph Mathys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: Rewriting CVSup in C, the Csup project Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: SSH based networking filesystem Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Dario Freni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: FreeSBIE integration Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Emiliano Mennucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: pluggable disk scheduler Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: GEOM Journaling Layer (gjournal), Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Jason Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: powerd, Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Michael Bushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: nsswitch / caching daemon Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Paolo Pisati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: improve libalias Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: R. Tyler Ballance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: Implement MacOS launchd(8) for FreeBSD Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: RuGang Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: K kernel meta-language project Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Samy Al Bahra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: MAC Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Victor Cruceru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: SNMP monitoring Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Yanjun Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: SEBSD Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student: Emily Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary: website improvements Mentor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
