Hi everyone, Thomas and I would like to try the Google Code-In (GCI) programme this year (GCI is for high school students). We’ve been participating to lots of discussions about it at the GSOC summit 2017 and it seems like it could bring some interesting things for the XWiki project.
Our goal: * Participate to GCI * Kill 2 birds with one stone and create an onboarding programme for anyone wanting to contribute to XWiki without any knowledge Here’s what we’ve done so far: * We’ve started registering XWiki as an org on https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/ * We’ve also started creating the GCI pages on xwiki.org at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleCodeIn/ * We’ve started creating GCI issues in XWiki (reusing existing JIRAs + creating new ones). The idea is to map our Paper Cuts ideas we had (http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/PaperCut) with GCI. ** In practice a GCI issue is a “Trivial” issue, labelled with “GCI”. Next immediate steps: * Finish the application process before the 24th of October. We’ll know on the 26th of October if we’re selected or not. * Find at least 10 mentors for the programme. We’re currently 2. A mentor doesn't need to be an expert in XWiki at all since the GCI tasks need to be super simple with very clear success criteria. So we need the maximum of mentors. We need to be prepared to handle 10-50 students at all time participating to XWiki GCI tasks! ** Example of people who could be mentors: committers, contributors, QA/testers, XWiki users, ex-GSOC students * Before the 28th of November have at least 200 tasks defined. IMPORTANT: The mentors are not assigned to any student and we work as a pool of mentors (it’s not like GSOC!). A mentor can handle validating tasks and answering questions from students at the intensity that they want (could be as low as doing that for a few tasks only). Please let us know quickly if you’re willing to be a mentor for GCI! Thanks -Vincent
