Re: summer of code!! participants?

[Len Shapiro <len(at)cs(dot)pdx(dot)edu>]

Selena,

Congratulations!

PSU was also selected as a mentor organization.  We'll be spiffing up 
our own projects page, adding some projects to enable Postgresql to be 
used more easily as a teaching tool.

RSN we'll be soliciting student participation in the SOC and we will be 
sure to highlight the PostgreSQL projects page as well as our own.

On a related note, a patch generated by two PSU students (Tom Raney, 
Shreya Bhargava) last summer was just applied to 8.4 ( 
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00209.php ).  It 
enables the hash index, long deprecated because of unacceptable build 
times, to be usable.  I'm sure PDXPUG joins me in congratulating them.

All the best,

Len

Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> PostgreSQL was accepted into the summer of code! Know students who
> would like to participate? Please ask them to get in touch with
> josh(at)postgresql(dot)org and selena(at)postgresql(dot)org!
>
> [ Psst: PSU folks -- talking to you! ]
>
> Here's an earlier announcement:
>
> Google Summer of Code 2008 is starting now.  We need to get our projects page
> up to date:
> http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode
>
> We also need PostgreSQL contributors to volunteer as mentors.  As well as the
> core code, *any* project in the PostgreSQL "family" is eligible, including
> drivers, GUIs, documentation, replication, applications and tools.  Don't be
> shy!
>
> Mentors must be patient, friendly, easy to stay in touch with, knowledgeable
> about their project areas, and able to commit to spending several hours a
> week helping their student(s) from May to August.
>
> GSOC is an unparalled opportunity for our project to recruit new contributors,
> and get students interested in databases.  We have one week to get everything
> together.  So please respond soon!