> On 18 Oct 2017, at 15:47, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've added my name and enygma's on the mentors list. > > There are not that many organizations accepted in Code-In, so it would be > great if we could be part of the program.
They’re extending to 20+ org this year (was 14 last year AFAIR). They told us we have a very good chance of being selected if we’re able to gather enough mentors (they mentioned 10 being the bare minimum). > "Onboarding" as label is good. Other organizations use "starter". > > We could also add more labels since GCI have the "user interface", "qa" > categories, etc. > Maybe some "user interface" / "design" / "ui" label could be interesting. > WDYT? We already have labels in jira that we use (such as “ux”, “consistency”, etc) but I don’t know if we have some for the categories you mention. I’m fine to add more. Thanks -Vincent > Thanks, > Caty > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Little change: the label is "Onboarding" instead of "GCI" to me more >> generic and reuse that outside of GCI. >> >> 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 >>
