Database SIG?

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Sat May 16 14:29:09 UTC 2009


David Malcolm wrote:
> Would anyone else be interested in a database special-interest-group
> within Fedora?  I don't see one at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs
>
> I seem to spend much of my time working with SQL these days, and I'm
> interested in both client-side tools for mucking about with SQL, and
> with server-side implementations, test suites, plus the more esoteric
> things like XML and object databases, SPARQL, Tutorial D, etc.
>
> So there'd be some overlap with the Server SIG, but there are plenty of
> GUI tools as well (e.g. openoffice-base, schema visualizers, etc).
>
> High-level goal might be to make Fedora the best place to go for someone
> trying to learn about SQL and relational databases [1], and other types
> of db.
>
> A first step might be to gather a list of interesting open-source
> database software, and then to package more of it for Fedora.  I've
> tried looking for such a list, but unfortunately the package database
> tends to dominate my queries.
>
> Anyone else out there?
>
> Dave
>
> [1] and, indeed, the differences between the two, for any followers of
> the "Third Manifesto" out there
>
>   
Way cool!




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