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Mentor Summit Report for PostgreSQL

Update: Fixed the etherboot wiki link.
I attended the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit this past weekend on behalf of PostgreSQL. We met at the Google campus in Mountain View.
This event was an unconference and so, none of the sessions were determined in advance.
Some of the highlights were:

Leslie Hawthorn and Chris DiBona went […]

coders for software engineers

I read this article about computer science education this morning -
Software Engineering and the Cause of the CS Enrollment Crisis
I propose that our current undergraduate computer science programs are designed to produce coders for software engineers.
Yeah. This is so true! I immediately thought of Shelley Powers’ comments about what we should do with computer science […]