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From Sarah Conway Schnurr
Subject Re: Participate in GCI as a Mentor
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Msg-id CA+m7vT6Occow7NLb9TSbyoZkM9vrYGVT9FZKb0QsWGFhiae+Zg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Participate in GCI as a Mentor  (Tahir Ramzan <tahirramzan@alumni.vu.edu.pk>)
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Tahir,

Thank you for spending time thinking of task ideas!

We are ideally attempting to think of tasks that could benefit PostgreSQL as a whole either through code, outreach/advocacy, quality assurance, or design based contributions, as that seems to be the trend for other tasks submitted by open source organizations. Additionally, we'd like to avoid comparison style tasks to prevent negative connotations or press around PostgreSQL or competing databases.

As an alternative, could you perhaps write up some tasks around "Performing and Documenting backing up a PostgreSQL instance"? There could be specific unique tasks for each of the backup tools, such as pgBackRest, pg_dump, pg_basebackup, pgBarman, wal-e, and wal-g. I would write up the requirements as being "Write up a 1000 word (minimum) essay" and "include a paragraph explaining in which situation the tool you're working with would be best suited". 

It would most likely fall under the "Research" or "Documentation" categories, for researching and documenting their steps taken.

Following that, you could add in additional unique tasks for similar ideas, such as:
  • "Write up a new user guide for pgBackRest based on a s3 backup architecture."
  • "Compose a cheat sheet for backing up and restoring a PostgreSQL instance using X backup tool."
  • "Create well-designed online graphical resources / cheat sheets for common PostgreSQL operations for the Online Resources page on PostgreSQL.org."
  • "Create a video tutorial explaining how to backup and restore a PostgreSQL instance using X backup tool."
  • "Create a video tutorial explaining how to upgrade a PostgreSQL instance from 9.6 to 10."
Thank you! 

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:31 AM Tahir Ramzan <tahirramzan@alumni.vu.edu.pk> wrote:
Honorable Concern,

I am planning to mentor these ideas IN Google Code-in as these are learning, interesting, informative and doable for young students:

Compare PostgreSQL with another RDBMS:
• DB2
• MySQL
• Oracle
• SQLite
• MS SQL Server
• Sybase

Compare PostgreSQL with a NoSQL Column Database:
• Accumulo
• Cassandra
• Druid
• HBase
• Vertica

Compare PostgreSQL with a NoSQL Document Database:
• Apache CouchDB
• ArangoDB
• BaseX
• Clusterpoint
• Couchbase
• Cosmos DB
• IBM Domino
• MarkLogic
• MongoDB
• OrientDB
• Qizx
• RethinkDB

Compare PostgreSQL with NoSQL Key-value Database:
• Aerospike
• Apache Ignite
• ArangoDB
• Berkeley DB
• Couchbase
• Dynamo
• FairCom c-treeACE
• FoundationDB
• InfinityDB
• MemcacheDB
• MUMPS
• Oracle NoSQL Database
• OrientDB
• Redis
• Riak
• SciDB
• SDBM/Flat File dbm
• ZooKeeper

Compare PostgreSQL with a NoSQL Graph Database
• AllegroGraph
• ArangoDB
• InfiniteGraph
• Apache Giraph
• MarkLogic
• Neo4J
• OrientDB
• Virtuoso

Kindly share your precious thoughts and feedback, thanks in anticipation.

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Tahir Ramzan
MSCS Research Scholar
Google Summer of Code 2015 (CiviCRM)
Google Summer of Code 2016 (ModSecurity)
Outside Collaborator of SpiderLabs (Powered by TrustWave)
Google Android Students Club Facilitator and Organizer 2015

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