Thanks Vincent and Thomas for taking this forward. Hope a positive result on 26th. I earlier contributed in XWiki Projects and ex-GSoC participant. I would like to mentor for GCI.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to Pawan for the initial push to look into it :) > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > -- Pawan Pal *B.Tech (Information Technology and Mathematical Innovation)* *Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi*
