Hi all, This sounds good. Given we can do more than just coding tasks, i.e. documentation, outreach, training I am happy to help find suitable issues to work on and support this effort.
Tracy On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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-201 >>>>> 7-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-201 >>>>> 7-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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