Hi Sean If there is still space for additional mentors, I will be glad to volunteer some time for the students.
Thanks Ngadou On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 00:14, Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-devel < brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi Kartik, > > Thank you for the quick reply and interest. Not a problem. > > GCI is typically for small tasks; ideally succinct self-contained work > that might take someone experienced around 1-2 hours of effort (including > any setup). That is because the goal is tasks that will take a young > student (13-17 years old) with nominal or no experience about 2-4 hours of > effort. > > This typically means breaking larger features and goals down into very > specific general concepts, e.g., implement just 1 function that takes X,Y > for input and produces Z' as an output or return value. It helps if tasks > can be very easily reviewed without subjectivity. > > It’s more work to define tasks, but the productivity can be astounding > because the kids are trying to complete as many tasks as possible to win. > In years prior, I think we’ve accepted about 400-900 completed tasks each > year. We need a minimum of 100 task descriptions to get started. Unlike > GSoC, the work can be to write code, docs, tests, design, artwork, etc > (just not translation). > > Mentors can define nearly any task that might take the student 2-4 hours > of effort, so LibreCAD, FreeCAD, STEPcode, Slic3r, etc, are all fair game. > The only issue is having a requirement to download and compile as that’s > typically a task in itself (they get only 2 beginner tasks). Kids reported > having different sets of instructions and tasks was very confusing. What > will work, though, are tasks that can be implemented or worked on > independently, or that are part of a chain of tasks (e.g., Task 1 of 3: do > X; Task 2 of 3: do Y; Task 3 of 3: do Z). > > We’ve had a virtual machine image in years prior where we downloaded and > set everything up for them and that worked really well and we could do it > again, but someone (!) would need to volunteer to do that work to set it up. > > Cheers! > Sean > > > > On Oct 18, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Kartik kumar <kartik.sckor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi sean > I received your mail regarding GCI mentoring. I was a part of gsoc with > LibreCAD project. Yes i am interested in GCI. > Right now i am travelling and in a hurry. I can talk on Monday now. Hope > that's not a problem. > I am not much aware of GCI.. > Will the projects of only brl or librecad both? > Regards > Kartik > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 7:12 pm Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-devel, < > brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> LAST CALL for interest in mentoring for GCI this year! We have a few >> responses, but not yet enough. As most of you know, GCI can be pretty >> intense and really requires a lot of mentors able to spend a couple minutes >> a day reviewing task submissions. Fwiw, orgs typically get to send an >> additional GCI delegate to the mentor summit and this is usually given to >> one of the most active GCI mentors. >> >> Again, any coding is fair game but it's ideally tasks that don’t require >> much setup — tasks can be chained, however, to achieve more complex results. >> >> For example, we got BRL-CAD ray tracing running in parallel on Windows by >> defining separate tasks for implementing functions that lock/unlock a >> semaphore, create/delete a thread, a semaphore unit test, a threading unit >> test, and an integration test. Tasks do not have to be limited to code and >> can include things like designing icons, panels, single static web pages, >> etc. >> >> If you are interested, please just send me a quick e-mail or message on >> Zulip. Ideally before Monday, please. :) >> >> Cheers! >> Sean >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 10, 2019, at 9:39 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> Is there interest in participating in GCI this year? We took a break >> last year with the schedule changed too close to GSoC, but now it’s shifted >> back. >> >> We made some really cool GUI and sample geometry progress that we could >> build upon as task sets, along with other potential tasks, but we need at >> least a half dozen mentors, ideally 10 or more. >> >> Mentors from any project are welcome BUT tasks will need to be >> independent of repos — that seemed particularly confusing last time. It >> just means tasks will need to be chained as sets and be more succinct (eg >> implement a function that does X). >> >> If you’re interested, please email me back a quick note as soon as >> possible. >> >> Cheers! >> Sean >> >> On Oct 10, 2019, at 1:55 PM, 'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors >> List <google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Mentors, >> >> >> Organization Applications are now open for Google Code-in 2019 - our 10th >> year of GCI! You can go to g.co/gci to start your registration and >> application by hitting the “Apply as an Organization” button in the middle >> of the page. >> >> >> Deadline to submit your Org Application >> >> The deadline to complete all 3 steps of your application (Org profile, >> Org application and assigning 2 Org Admins) is *Mon**day,* October 28 at >> 17:00 UTC. >> >> We will announce the accepted organizations on Tuesday, October 29th, >> giving accepted orgs 5 weeks to enter tasks and invite their mentors for >> the contest. >> >> We plan to accept up to 30 organizations for Google Code-in 2019. >> >> >> We are looking forward to 2019 being our biggest and best Google Code-in >> yet! >> >> Questions? >> >> If you have any questions at all please contact me at >> gci-supp...@google.com. >> >> >> Best, >> >> *Stephanie Taylor* >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Summer of Code Mentors List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to google-summer-of-code-mentors-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/53b3fe1f-4c81-466c-ad69-35808c5270f7%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/53b3fe1f-4c81-466c-ad69-35808c5270f7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BRL-CAD Developer mailing list >> brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel >
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