Hi Supun, // Added Jenkins Developers group to CC
FYI, Google Code-in (GCI) is a contest to introduce pre-university students > (ages 13-17) to open source software development. IMHO participating GCI is > a great advantage to the community and hope its bit different experience > for all of us. Last year GCI was very successful and 25 opensource > mentoring organizations participated [1]. I think this year we also can > apply as a mentoring organization. Your suggestions would be > greatly appreciated. > > [1] > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/01/google-code-in-2017-winners.html > I think it may be interesting to the Jenkins community. Our main challenge would be to create enough small tasks <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/example-tasks> which should be doable by a newbie contributor. It should be possible for "Design" and "Documentation" sections, QA and research are also possible. Regarding Coding, it will require processing of newbie-friendly <https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20JENKINS%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20newbie-friendly> tasks and describing them properly. It is certainly doable, but we need a number of contributors, especially in the following timeframes: - Sep 06 - Sep 17 - Applications - Oct 23 - Dec 27 - Contest In my case, I am not available to drive the applications period, my schedule is fully packed due to the DevOps World | Jenkins World prep work. November-December will be also quite busy for me, I prefer to not commit on being an active mentor during this period. If somebody is interested to be an organization admin (e.g. Supun), I will be happy to provide as much assistance as I can. Would anybody from Jenkins Developers be interested in participating? Generally it requires creating/describing small tasks in the area of your interest (plugins you maintain, etc.) Best regards, Oleg On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:59 AM Supun Wanniarachchi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > FYI, Google Code-in (GCI) is a contest to introduce pre-university > students (ages 13-17) to open source software development. IMHO > participating GCI is a great advantage to the community and hope its bit > different experience for all of us. Last year GCI was very successful and > 25 opensource mentoring organizations participated [1]. I think this year > we also can apply as a mentoring organization. Your suggestions would be > greatly appreciated. > > [1] > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/01/google-code-in-2017-winners.html > > Best Regards, > Supun. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Google Code-in Mentors <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:04 AM > Subject: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org applications open September 6-17 - > contest begins October 23rd for students > To: Google Code-in Mentors <[email protected]> > > > Hello GCI mentors, > > We are pleased to announce Google Code-in (GCI) 2018 <http://g.co/gci>, > the 9th consecutive year of our contest for pre-university students ages > 13-17. Please be aware GCI will start about a month earlier this year > than in previous years - the contest starts for students October 23rd! > > The GCI timeline, FAQs, Rules and flyers have been updated on the contest > site <http://g.co/gci>. > > Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2018 program please > start thinking about the tasks you would like students to work on and reach > out to your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for > the program. *Organization applications open for GCI orgs *next week on > Thursday, September 6th, and close less than 2 weeks later on Monday, > September 17th. We will announce organizations on Tuesday, September 18th > giving orgs 5 weeks to create their tasks before the contest begins on > October 23rd. > > The major changes for GCI 2018 are: > > - > > Orgs will evaluate the 20 students completing the most tasks with > their org when deciding on finalists and winners > - > > Orgs will choose 6 finalists (instead of 5) > - > > We have renamed the User Interface category to Design > - > > Students will have to wait until Google reviews their Parental Consent > form before they can claim their first task. This will slow things down but > it is a requirement to be able to continue the program. > - > > No tasks asking for personal information about students will be > allowed (this includes tasks asking for students to introduce themselves > with info like what country they are from, or photos of the students, > etc.). > > We are looking to continue the growth of this program and reach a record > number of teenagers this year! Read more on today’s blog post > <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html> > . > > If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at > [email protected] > > Best, > > Stephanie and Mary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code-in Mentors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/a0aa5a28-3853-4f4f-a547-7cb816932147%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/a0aa5a28-3853-4f4f-a547-7cb816932147%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Thank You & Best Regards, > > Supun Wanniarachchi | Software Engineer > > Sysco LABS | 55A Dharmapala Mw, Col. 03 > ( *Mobile*: +94716326119 | Blog: blog.supun.me) > > > [image: Github] <https://github.com/Supun94> [image: LinkedIn] > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/supun-wanniarachchi-21b37a97/> [image: > Twitter] <https://twitter.com/SuuPuuN> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. 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