On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> wrote:
> Dear all, > When discussing the need to support HiDPI displays, I brought up the idea > of joining Google Code-In. This is a much smaller version of GSoC, aimed at > high school students. Students complete small tasks and can get T-shirts > and other promotional items; the main part of the program runs from Dec. 1 > - Jan. 19 and has just been announced yesterday. > > We would have to register soon (registration of organizations begins on > Oct. 27 and ends on Nov. 12). The following tasks are eligible: > > 1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code > > 2. Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents > and helping others learn more > > 3. Outreach/Research Tasks related to community management, > outreach/marketing or studying problems and recommending solutions > > 4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of > high quality > > 5. User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user > interface design and interaction > > It seems to be necessary to have at least five tasks of each type, with > over 50 tasks in total; this may be a challenge for us. Note that a task is > quite small, though, something that would take us 1 - 2 hours to carry out, > so a high school student should take 3 - 5 hours. > > Tasks should be independent of each other, and it may be difficult for us > to come up with 100+ tasks as requested. Also, translation tasks are not > eligible this year. > > In short, we would need at least two mentors of each category (to ensure a > fast turn-around even during holidays), and 5 - 30 tasks per category (by > Dec. 1). This seems like a daunting challenge. For coding tasks, we > probably have enough open things on the to-do lists (such as the feature > polls on the LyX wiki), but not so many of these may be feasible within two > hours. Note that "beginner tasks" can be used to help students familiarize > themselves with the code base, so some tasks may assume prior knowledge of > the LyX codebase. > > What do you think? To me it seems like a lot of people would have to get > involved to "scale up" to the numbers that Google expects here. Probably > large organizations can handle this more easily. Still, it is good to be > aware of this opportunity so we can at least consider it. > I can help with admin duties and possibly also mentoring on non C++ related tasks (including coming up with tasks). But I cannot do anything until the end of the month, as I will be traveling non-stop until then. That being said, I agree with Cyrille that Google's requirements seem like a big tasks for small orgs. Perhaps we'll get some enlightenment at the forthcoming Reunion. Cheers, S. > -- > Regards, > Cyrille Artho - http://artho.com/ > Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which > millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. > -- Nero Wolfe > -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi stefano.fran...@gmail.com <stef...@tamu.edu> http://stefano.cleinias.org
