GSoC 2009

• Stuff to do:

Admin PEOPLE

• Prof Len Shapiro - list contacts,
• Robert Treat - mentor 2x, PHP stuff phppgadmin/pgadmin etc. FTS for pgadmin/phppgadmin
• Selena Deckelmann - other stuff
• Michael Brewer - contact about Higher Ed - ME

• Devrim Gunduz - Admin
• Josh Berkus -

Mentors?

-- TOM

• Stephen Frost - column level permissions
• Magnus
• Dave Page

Examples:

Florian - read/only on snapshots no advancement of xid on select statements

GOALS:

• usable code
  • useful/novel ideas
  • research projects

• longer term contributors

TODOs:

• Update GSOC page - SELENA submit changes that Robert can push
• Slightly different email text for advertising - SELENA, run it by Len Shapiro for his advice
• 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

• Research which projects were done in the past and how they morphed into contributions
• Selena needs to think of a convincing way to get mentors bought into students blogging etc.

• Recruitment -- no organized group effort?
  • -announce, -general, -hackers
  • user group lists?
  • phppgadmin/pgadmin
  • berkeley
  • linux user group in gainsville -- university of florida
  • sysadmin at U of Alabama
  • Michael: Q -- is there something better we can do? , Len Shapiro
  • Univ. of Maryland -- contact them?

• BLOG posts Robert and I could do about what is happening
  • Research Postgres-related projects in other projects... -- ROBERT go do this later

• Identify the commitfest that the code will be submitted to
  • Selena - #postgressql-gsoc (register, then done)

• Handle the submission process -- ROBERT handle the submission process

TIMELINE

• Create the timeline: due dates, etc.

• Create an orientation to -hackers and -general for students
• Have students communicate on -hackers where appropriate (didn't really work?)
  • Or other relevant -devel lists

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

• Mailing list
  • pgsql-students (?)
  • mentors mailing list -admin mailing list, berkus said?