Google is organizing the Google Code-in 2013 project, aimed at involving
13-17 year old students in free and open source projects.
You can read more at
https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInfo2013
Application deadline: 28 October.
To participate, an organization (it would be Apache, but the other
Apache projects have, reasonably, difficulties in finding suitable
tasks) needs to have small tasks (maximum 6 hours of work) available in
5 categories: Coding, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality
Assurance and User Interface.
Well, think if you believe this is feasible for us, and think if you
personally can help! Translation is explicitly banned, but finding small
tasks is easy (some examples, one for each category: update dictionaries
and test them, document the new Calc functions, insert a language
drop-down on the website, write a Calc test with Herbert's new system,
propose -no implementation- a better layout for the Tools - Customize -
Keyboard dialog).
Note that this kind of tasks can perfectly be handled by committers who
are not familiar with the source code. Well, we have plenty of
committers, we have teachers who are used to managing young people, we
cover a lot of native languages in case communication in English is
problematic... If a reasonable number of volunteers show up here, and do
it soon, we can consider to apply (through Apache).
For the Apache-wide discussion see the relevant messages in
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201310.mbox/browser
Regards,
Andrea.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
