Some of you my have heard of the Google Summer of Code programme in which university students complete open source projects over the (northern hemisphere) summer.
Google is currently running a similar programme aimed at pre-university students, in the which the students have the opportunity to perform a number of smaller tasks with the aim not only of getting useful work done for open-source projects, but also of introducing the students to the wonderful world of open-source. The good news is that Perl and Parrot has been accepted as one of the 20 projects in the programme. There is a number of tasks available and students are already working on them. The not-so-good news is that there are few Perl5 related tasks in the list. But the programme runs until January 10th, so there is still time to change that. So please consider this a call to module authors who are able to provide one or more smallish tasks for students, and who are willing to act as a mentor to assist the student in completing the task, if necessary. Unlike the Summer of Code, the Code-in doesn't have to be code, so documentation, translation, advocacy and suchlike is all in scope, as well as adding tests to increase test coverage and, of course, adding new features or fixing bugs. For more information see: http://icanhaz.com/gci2010 http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html or join #gci on irc.perl.org This is a great opportunity to get students involved in Perl, so if you are able to assist here, then please consider doing so. Feel free to forward this mail to anywhere where you feel people may be interested. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
