Well, to my surprise, we actually are *lacking* code tasks, while starting to build up a pretty decent list of documentation, UI, and research tasks: http://drupal.org/project/issues/gci
Any takers? On 2010-10-21, at 10:47 AM, Angela Byron wrote: > Greetings, Development List! > > Just wanted to raise to your attention that Google is sponsoring a program to > help 13-18 year olds get involved in open source called Google > Code-In:http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html. The program > runs Nov. 22 - January 10, and the past incarnation (GHOP) netted us > rockstars such as Jimmy Berry (who wrote the infrastructure for our automated > testing bot), Daniel Wehner (who is now a Views co-maintainer), and Charlie > Gordon (who has done a bunch of work in core on SimpleTest and D7UX patches). > > We're currently in the "apply as a mentoring organization" status, and in > order to do that, we need a list of tasks in eight categories (Code, > Documentation, Outreach, Quality Assurance, Research, Training, Translation, > and User Interface) that someone in jr. high/high school could pick off in a > week or so. This task list is due next Friday, and I'd love to have at least > 25-30 tasks in a variety of areas ready to go well in advance of that. > > Since there are a lot of module maintainers on this list, I should point out > that this program isn't limited in any way to core, since that seems to be a > misconception.If you have fun/interesting problems in your issue queue that > you've been meaning to solve but haven't found the time, or documentation > that really needs to get written, a mockup you want created of some tricky > interaction screen, etc. these would all make great tasks. > > Also, to head this off at the pass, I'd like to not simply cop-out and fill > the list with 10,000 "Port X module to Drupal 7" and "Write SimpleTests for > Module X" (although we have that to fall back on for 3-5 tasks in the list). > This program isn't about getting free child labour, it's about inspiring the > next generation of open source contributors. Further, it's very obvious to > students (and Google, for that matter) how much work mentoring organizations > put into their task list and a lame copy/paste job (which is what we'll have > to resort to if we can't find enough good tasks :\) is likely to get students > heading off to another project. > > Anyway, if you can help, please see instructions at > http://groups.drupal.org/node/101019. We currently have 0 viable tasks, and > only one task suggestion, so any help we can get here is appreciated. :( > > Thanks. > > -Angie >
