Hi Aldrin, Would like to get involved.Please let me know the process and start contributing.
Regards, Ajit On Sun 2 Sep, 2018, 4:30 PM Aldrin Leal, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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