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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:39:09 -0700
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
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Subject: Mentors needed urgently for SoC & PostgreSQL Student Internships
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All,

Due to budget constraints, Google needed to cut 50 projects from the 
Summer of Code this year.  We were one of the projects cut (although we 
can re-apply next year).

However, that doesn't mean we won't be working with students this year.

1) Portland State University has generously offered to host 1 or 2 
PostgreSQL-based projects in their GSoC compliment.

2) We can fund two student internships our of PostgreSQL money.  This 
would also allow us to fund some projects which don't fit within the 
parameters of GSoC (wrong schedule, high school student, docs or 
infrastructure rather than code, etc.).

What this all hinges on is getting some really solid mentors who have 
projects they'd like students to work on, and can commit unconditionally 
to having 5 hours a week or more, over a 3-month period, to work with 
the student.

If we don't get at least 4 solid mentor-volunteers by next week, I'll 
drop the whole idea and we'll stop doing internships or SoC entirely.

Note that since the Internships are not required to be project code, we 
can also take student projects to contribute to our WWW infrastructure 
and other areas the project needs some work.

--Josh Berkus
   for the Core Team