In case anyone was wondering, I did not apply for BRL-CAD to participate in GCI 2015.
I spoke with several mentors and Google staffers about it at length. The difficult decision was made due to a number of factors. Some of those are that we have 150+ patches that remain unintegrated, we’re behind schedule on releases with a large peer review backlog, we have a new website to deploy, our communications are suffering from a paralysis effect, and our mentors simply need to take a break. You all worked really hard last year and I thank everyone for their efforts — particularly our GCI 2014 mentors that really stepped up to the table. I estimate that we received about 6-12 years of useful work, more than double the previous year. There’s a new rule being enforced for this year’s GCI that will probably preclude there from being nearly as much activity, but a break is still in order at least until we get through our backlog. If anyone would like to take on a leadership role to help us get caught up, please contact me privately. The three areas we currently need the most help are: 1) someone to send out regular communications updates (weekly) 2) someone to finish the new website (merge GCI work, sync, deploy) 3) someone to review+integrate patches Cheers! Sean Begin forwarded message: > From: Stephanie Taylor <sttay...@google.com> > Subject: [gci-announce] Google Code-in 2015 Mentoring Organizations announced > Date: November 13, 2015 at 5:38:52 PM EST > To: Google Code-in Announce <gci-annou...@googlegroups.com> > Reply-To: gci-announce+own...@googlegroups.com > > We have determined the 14 open source organizations that will be acting as > mentoring orgs for Google Code-in 2015. These orgs are developing thousands > of tasks that students will be able to choose from in categories including > coding, documentation, outreach, research, training, user interface and > quality assurance. Students will be able to register for the contest and > start claiming and working on tasks when the contest begins Monday, December > 7th. Check out our contest site at g.co/codein for more details on each > organization. > > > Students, you should read about the work each of the organizations is doing > to help you decide which organizations you may want to work when the contest > opens on December 7th. Each organization has a homepage discussing what they > do as well as the coding languages they use for development. > > > Google Code-in 2015 Mentoring Organizations: > > Apertium > > Copyleft Games Group > > Drupal > > FOSSASIA > > Haiku > > KDE > > MetaBrainz > > OpenMRS > > RTEMS > > SCoRe > > Sugar Labs > > Systers > > Ubuntu > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > For more information check out our Frequently Asked Questions, Contest Rules > and today's blog post >
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