Best post to code-awards, that's the place where the mentors are. Or even to pmcs@.
Uli On 24.09.2012 22:13, Luciano Resende wrote: > FYI, Any mentor volunteers for this year Google Code-in ? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stephanie Taylor <sttay...@google.com> > Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:09 AM > Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Google Code-in 2012 Contest announced for 13-17 > year old students interested in open source > To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List < > google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com> > > > Hello GSoC Mentors, > > We are excited to announce [0] that we will be running the Google Code-in > [1] contest for 13-17 pre-university students again this fall. The contest > will begin for students on Monday, November 26th, 2012 [2]. > > Organizations will be able to apply to be one of the 10 mentoring > organizations beginning Monday, October 22nd (the Monday after the GSoC > Mentor Summit in Mountain View, CA). We will have a session on Google > Code-in during the Mentor Summit for people to learn more about the program > and for previous mentors and org admins to give us their feedback and > thoughts on the program. > > When you read through the Contest Rules for this year you will notice some > major changes that we implemented based on your feedback and student > feedback from last year. The main points are below with more mentor > information on the GCI Wiki [3]. > > - The point system has been overhauled and now every task is worth one > point. The 5 students with the highest number of completed tasks with your > org will be the pool from which you, the mentoring org, will choose your 2 > Grand Prize winners based on the overall complete body of work of those 5 > students. > - There will be 10 Mentoring Orgs for a total of 20 Grand Prize Winners > (compared to 10 last year). > - Translation tasks will no longer be a part of the Google Code-in > contest, either as its own category or as a part of documentation efforts. > - If students want to go for the Grand Prize they will work > predominantly with one org and will hopefully become involved with the > community of that org and will stay long after the GCI contest is over. > - Students will not earn cash prizes for their work. They will earn > certificates and t-shirts and then they can go for the grand prize if they > wish. > - The contest was shortened by a week at the beginning of the contest > period so it will now start after the Thanksgiving holidays in the USA. > > > We hope you will help us spread the word about the Google Code-in contest > so we can introduce more young developers to the wonderful world of open > source. If you will be going to any talks or conferences aimed at > pre-university students in the next couple of months we would be happy to > send you some stickers for GCI. Please contact me directly at > sttay...@google.com. > > [0] > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-code-in-contest-for-high-school.html > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 > [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/events/google/gci2012 > [3] http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInformation2012 > > > Best, > Stephanie Taylor > > Stephanie Taylor | Open Source Programs, Google | sttay...@google.com | > 650-214-1656 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Summer of Code Mentors List" group. > To post to this group, send email to > google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-summer-of-code-mentors-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list?hl=en. > > >
