Hi all, First question in the application form: "Is your organization prepared to provide between 150 and 500 tasks for students to complete?" Is our organization really ready to do so? I am not sure
Best regards, Oleg On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 6:21:36 PM UTC+2, Kristin Whetstone wrote: > > From my perspective, I'd love to get help with some of the documentation > tasks. I'd like to participate, and would be willing to help out wherever > needed. > > Thanks! > Kristin > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 6:59 AM, Aldrin Leal <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>> / >> https://ingenieux.io/about/ >> >> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 5:47 AM, Oleg Nenashev <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> 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] >>> <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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] <javascript:> >>>> >>>> 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] <javascript:>. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> <javascript:>. >>>> 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. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPfivLDyMFMq-8s2qvt1ZOydiB%2BnCiOuAJPRftGb2zgjuogehQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPfivLDyMFMq-8s2qvt1ZOydiB%2BnCiOuAJPRftGb2zgjuogehQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins GSoC Mentors" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-gsoc-mentors/CALpo8NuKRZ%3D-qjs91%3DU9vu%3Dii%2BByFwJ6KoVuKu8qROQPd0ADgg%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-gsoc-mentors/CALpo8NuKRZ%3D-qjs91%3DU9vu%3Dii%2BByFwJ6KoVuKu8qROQPd0ADgg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Kristin Whetstone > Software Engineer > > CloudBees, Inc. > > [image: CloudBees-Logo.png] > > E: [email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. 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