Based on our participation in the Summer of Code, Google invited us to
apply for their revived program for 13-18 year olds called Google
Code-In [1-2]. The basic idea is that students will complete a series of
small tasks rather than one huge project, and the tasks don't even have
to be related (or even involve programming!).
One really neat feature about GCI is that projects can be anything --
documentation, translation, coding, research, whatever. If you've been
feeling that your ideas are left out by GSoC, this is your chance.
After talking with a few devs, there seemed to be a lot of interest in
us getting involved. The application deadline is very soon -- this
Friday! We need a good ideas list by then if we're going to apply. I
created a draft ideas page [3]; please fill it in by the end of the day
on this Thursday.
We're looking for tasks that would take a student 13-18 years old
roughly 1-3 days to complete. Ideas might include writing man pages,
translating a few webpages, perhaps some relatively straightforward
bugfixes, etc. More general ideas are on our ideas page and the GCI
homepage. Because tasks are so short, mentoring will not be a major
burden, so don't let that hold you back.
Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
10-29-2010, 02:11 PM
Donnie Berkholz
Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source
On 23:19 Mon 25 Oct , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Based on our participation in the Summer of Code, Google invited us to
> apply for their revived program for 13-18 year olds called Google
> Code-In [1-2]. The basic idea is that students will complete a series of
> small tasks rather than one huge project, and the tasks don't even have
> to be related (or even involve programming!).
>
> One really neat feature about GCI is that projects can be anything --
> documentation, translation, coding, research, whatever. If you've been
> feeling that your ideas are left out by GSoC, this is your chance.
>
> After talking with a few devs, there seemed to be a lot of interest in
> us getting involved. The application deadline is very soon -- this
> Friday! We need a good ideas list by then if we're going to apply. I
> created a draft ideas page [3]; please fill it in by the end of the day
> on this Thursday.
>
> We're looking for tasks that would take a student 13-18 years old
> roughly 1-3 days to complete. Ideas might include writing man pages,
> translating a few webpages, perhaps some relatively straightforward
> bugfixes, etc. More general ideas are on our ideas page and the GCI
> homepage. Because tasks are so short, mentoring will not be a major
> burden, so don't let that hold you back.
We now have 2 ideas. It's not even worth applying unless we can get
closer to 10. If nobody puts up more ideas in the next ~6 hours, we
won't be participating this year.
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
10-29-2010, 05:46 PM
"Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto"
Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source
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On 26-10-2010 04:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Hi all,
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> We're looking for tasks that would take a student 13-18 years old
> roughly 1-3 days to complete. Ideas might include writing man pages,
> translating a few webpages, perhaps some relatively straightforward
> bugfixes, etc. More general ideas are on our ideas page and the GCI
> homepage. Because tasks are so short, mentoring will not be a major
> burden, so don't let that hold you back.
>
> I look forward to seeing all your cool ideas!
>
> 3. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Google_Code_In_2010_ideas
As you can see in the link for the current proposals, I've proposed a
general task of providing translations of our documentation for Portuguese.
I have a very strong suspicion that most if not all of our non-english
docs could either benefit from a review or are in need of major work.
Are there any developers from non english speaking countries that are
willing to serve as contacts for candidates wanting to translate any of
the docs on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ to your locale?
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Regards,
Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
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On 29-10-2010 20:46, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> As you can see in the link for the current proposals, I've proposed a
> general task of providing translations of our documentation for Portuguese.
> I have a very strong suspicion that most if not all of our non-english
> docs could either benefit from a review or are in need of major work.
> Are there any developers from non english speaking countries that are
> willing to serve as contacts for candidates wanting to translate any of
> the docs on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ to your locale?
As said on IRC I'd love to help Turkish translation if any student
volunteers.
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Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
Gentoo Developer
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On 09:11 Fri 29 Oct , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> We now have 2 ideas. It's not even worth applying unless we can get
> closer to 10. If nobody puts up more ideas in the next ~6 hours, we
> won't be participating this year.
Thanks to your help, we got enough ideas just in time to apply. We
should hear Friday whether we're in.
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
11-05-2010, 03:57 PM
Donnie Berkholz
Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source
On 10:02 Tue 02 Nov , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Thanks to your help, we got enough ideas just in time to apply. We
> should hear Friday whether we're in.
Unfortunately we weren't accepted. This was a highly selective set
compared to GSoC -- only 20 organizations instead of 150. Perhaps next
time around...
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
Google Code-In: 13-18 year olds in open source
