I'd love to - I've got a couple of small tasks in my plugins, and I've happy to help mentor a Student into doing it. Not only for fun, but also to give back. What should be our next steps?
-- -- Aldrin Leal, <[email protected]> / https://ingenieux.io/about/ On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 5:47 AM, Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! 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