GSoC 2011

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Contents 1 Project Ideas 2 Projects 3 Key Info 4 Project Admins 5 2011 Mentors 5.1 additional reviewers 6 2010 Mentors 6.1 additional reviewers 7 Past Success 8 GOALS: 9 TODOs: 10 Expectations

Project Ideas

• Implement a new Foreign Data Wrapper. For ODBC, for example.
• Please add ideas here!

Projects

The GSoC projects for 2011 are:

• TBD :)

We are also working on a twitter list for those involved this year. If you are missing, please send us your info:

Key Info

• March 7th - 11th, Mentoring Application Due
• March 29th - April 9th, Student Applications Due

• Announcement for GSoC 2011
• GSOC 2011 Home page
• GSOC 2011 FAQ
• Postgres GSOC Page, Needs Updating!
• Twitter stream of mentors and students

Project Admins

• Selena Deckelmann - Co-admin, Mentor Summit attendee.
• Josh Berkus - Co-admin, Mentor Summit attendee.
• Robert Treat - Past mentor 2x, co-admin, Mentor Summit attendee.

2011 Mentors

• Dave Page - Former mentor - pgAdmin, Windows, Packaging, Infrastructure
• Heikki Linnakangas - Postgres Committer
• Magnus Hagander - Postgres Committer, Windows, pgAdmin
• Guillaume Lelarge - pgAdmin
• Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais - phpPgAdmin
• Joe Abbate - Python-related, infrastructure
• David E. Wheeler - Perl-related, extensions, PGXN

additional reviewers

• Josh Berkus - auto-configuration, performance testing
• Selena Deckelmann - configuration, testing
• Andreas Scherbaum - performance, configuration, testing

2010 Mentors

• Dave Page - Former mentor - pgAdmin, Windows, Packaging, Infrastructure
• Robert Haas - CommitFest Manager
• Heikki Linnakangas - Postgres Committer
• Magnus Hagander - Postgres Committer, Windows, pgAdmin
• Guillaume Lelarge - pgAdmin
• Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais - phpPgAdmin

additional reviewers

• Josh Berkus - auto-configuration, performance testing
• Andreas Scherbaum - performance, ddl, configuration

Past Success

• Florian - read-only on snapshots, no advancement of xid on select statements
• Ivan - Full-Text Support in phpPgAdmin
• Mickael Deloison - pgScript engine for pgAdmin
• Luis Alberto Ochoa Paz - Graphical query builder for pgAdmin
• Leonardo Sapiras - browsing data through FK in phpPgAdmin + some additionnal stuffs

GOALS:

• usable code
  • useful/novel ideas
  • research projects
• longer term contributors

TODOs:

• Kick-off Meeting for Community Members
• Update GSOC page
• Advertising?
• Blog that we're participating and seeking students
• Round of private emails to people who have participated in the past: Heikki, Simon, Mark
  • request interest, and then follow up in asking about possible topics for students
• Mentor recruitment and then email to -hackers
  • do this much later when we have some proposals in?

• Recruitment -- no organized group effort?
  • -announce, -general, -hackers
  • user group lists
  • phppgadmin/pgadmin
  • berkeley
  • Univ. of Maryland -- contact them?

• Identify the commitfest that the code will be submitted to

Expectations

• Stuff to keep students together:
  • Regular blogging from students
  • weekly group IRC checkin? -- two checkin times maybe?

• Have students communicate on -hackers where appropriate (didn't really work?)
  • Or other relevant -devel lists

• Mailing list
  • pgsql-students (?) vs. -hackers (?) maybe up to mentor?
  • mentors mailing list -admin mailing list, berkus said?
  • students mailing list via gsoc