Here are the names of the students who signed up on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010/Student_signup and proposed Google Summer of Code projects which were scored positively by Foundation mentors, but could not be accepted because the Foundation did not request enough slots from Google: Cam V., Damon, Johan G., Laszlo K., Meadowlark B., Maciej S., Michael W., Neeraj A., Ryan M., Shubhandra. Some of those students' projects were depricated because the mentors thought they might need more than a summer. I think they would all make excellent Chapter projects and I'm willing to do what it takes to see that they succeed. The Chapter will need officers, and I will be supporting those candidates who would like to work for the Chapter and want to see the California Chapter become the best of all Foundation Chapters. If Phoebe, Jon, and/or Brion want to work for the Chapter full- or part-time, and support the mentors' positively-scored GSoC student proposals as Chapter projects, Chapter server hardware benchmarking and bake-offs, Maker Faire as a Chapter project, and the West Coast Wikipedia Day unconference all as Chapter projects, then I would be happy to nominate them as Chapter Director, Assistant Director, and Chief Engineer respectively. Sincerely, James Salsman On May 4, 2010 10:49 PM, "James Salsman" <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote: Jon, Yes, please start a page on Meta with cache, memory, and mass storage geometries for all the different classes of servers in use if there isn't one already.  A lot of MySQL users are reporting large speed-ups with flash instead of disk, and we should measure the price/performance of local vendors for that.  FusionIO got a decent write-up in the April ;Login: magazine. Also we should agendize and fund the MakerFaire booth so if someone forgets to buy something we need for it whoever ends up paying for it can get reimbursed. Also, the West Coast Wikipedia Day unconference should be a project so we can afford to host it. Can we all agree to conduct business on the email list, or should we try to conduct business on Meta?  I'm partial to trying to conduct business on Meta for the purposes of eating our own dog food. Regards, James Salsman _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-california mailing list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-california >