On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:15:40PM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I'm not on the DBI mailing list, but it seems like DBI should have a > primary presence under the TPF Summer of Code umbrella. If the DBI > community hasn't already made arrangements for applying as its own > entity, please forward this along. > > Is anybody interested in mentoring students who want to submit > DBI-related/using proposals for Google's Summer of Code? I'm trying to > get together a proposal for The Perl Foundation this year, but if > google is going to let us in this year, we need to redeem ourselves by > gathering a sizable number of willing mentors and project ideas before > the 8th. > > I would also like two volunteers to manage the DBI neck of the woods. > That is, you will herd the cats and I will herd you ;-) If you're > interested in managing, please join me in #soc on irc.perl.org or > e-mail me directly. (This assumes that we have sufficient number of > willing mentors in the DBI department to warrant management.) > > Potential mentors, please add yourselves and your project ideas here: > > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_mentors > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects > > If you hate wikis as much as I do, please visit this handy form and I > will batch the wiki edits on your behalf. > > http://scratchcomputing.com/loveperlhatewiki.html
I've added myself as a mentor and I'm sending this to the dbi-users and dbi-announce lists. I've also added a description of a DBI project I'd really like someone to pick up and run with: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects#dbi If anyone has any ideas for DBI release Google Summer of Code projects, please add them to the gsoc2008_projects page. (They should be needed, practical, and realistic.) If anyone is interested in being a Google Summer of Code mentor please add themselves to the gsoc2008_mentors page (url above). Tim.
