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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Mentors needed urgently for SoC & PostgreSQL Student
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On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Steven Lembark wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> Would introducing a Duration (i.e., time-series
> a'la Date, et al)) data type be considered useful?
>
> I'd be happy to mentor someone doing it instead of
> having to write the entire thing myself.

+1

David