Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote:
> 
> >One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS 
> >projects that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students 
> >work on those...
> 
> As nice an idea as this is, we'd also need to quickly co-ordinate with 
> those projects to make sure that there is a semblance of a chance of 
> having those patches included in their distribution ... I realize that the 
> Code of Summer program doesn't need a guarantee that the code will be 
> committed, but if we're going to do something like the above, would rather 
> see it done for projects that wanted the end results ...

Absolutely, though we can't do that without a list of possibilities
first. People want to start throwing out names? (I can't really think of
any off the top of my head, other than OpenQRM, but I have ulterior
motives for that one so perhaps my vote shouldn't count. :) )
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