On Sun, October 14, 2012 10:49 am, Andre Klapper wrote: > Google will run Google Code-In (GCI) again this year > (see [1] below if you don't know what that is). > > Is the GNOME community interested in participating? > > Would you (developer, translator, doc writer, designer) be a mentor and > provide tasks? > > (Asking as I faced reluctance in the past, because time spent mentoring > students took often longer than if GNOMErs did the task themselves, plus > students often didn't stick with the mentoring org afterwards.) > > In case there is enough interest: > Is anybody else in to help organizing this for GNOME? > Asking as I won't have much time this year.
I can, of course! I can also come up with a few marketing tasks at least... While there's no translation this year, I note that to get started, we only need 5 tasks for each of the 5 categories by the November 26 start this time (there were 8 categories last time). They also changed the prize structure to motivate students to concentrate their work with one or two projects, and are asking for tasks to be more bite-sized (able to be completed by an experienced person in 2 hours) I think both of these changes make the program better for mentors to participate. karen > > > Comments? > > andre > > [1] > Code-In is for 13-17 year old students. Tasks take 3 to 5 days. > Nov 05th is the deadline for orgs to apply. The contest runs from Nov > 26th to Jan 16th. Tasks can be about Code, Documentation, > Outreach/Research/Marketing/Community Management, QA and UX. > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-code-in-contest-for-high-school.html > -- > mailto:ak...@gmx.net > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
