Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-29 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
Hey, Most probably I am late but can we still add tasks or volunteer for mentoring? Apologies for being late, Aarti On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: We have applied to Google Code-in and we will know whether we have been accepted or not this Friday.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-29 Thread Quim Gil
On 10/29/2013 09:28 AM, Aarti K. Dwivedi wrote: Most probably I am late but can we still add tasks or volunteer for mentoring? Yes! Apologies for being late, You answered here. You are not late. Thank you for your involvement! -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-29 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 21:58 +0530, Aarti K. Dwivedi wrote: Most probably I am late but can we still add tasks or volunteer for mentoring? Thanks for your interest! Yes you can, and they are welcome! However I'd turn that into add tasks *AND* volunteer for mentoring, because having

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-29 Thread Aarti K. Dwivedi
add tasks *AND* volunteer for mentoring I agree it makes tasks easier, and I will be mentoring all the tasks I propose and any other tasks if I ca. Thanks a lot! :) On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi, On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 21:58 +0530, Aarti K.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-28 Thread Quim Gil
We have applied to Google Code-in and we will know whether we have been accepted or not this Friday. Thank you to all the contributors that have helped so far listing tasks and volunteering as mentors! We can keep improving https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In On 10/26/2013 02:07 AM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-26 Thread Jiabao Wu
Hi, I am very keen to help the Code-ins. I have posted a quite general task on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In#Code. Shall I split the task to smaller ones (similar to the size as annoying_little_bugs) and define them before 28 October? I was GSoC 2013 participant and work on [bug

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-24 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: But of course this will only work if many projects want to step in with a task and a mentor for it. So what do you think? This was the perfect opportunity to create the long-overdue task list around tech communications:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-16 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 13:40 +0800, Liangent wrote: Is Lua / ParserFunctions templating or Lua conversion, either generic (meta-templates / -modules) or for a specific purpose (requested by local community etc.), eligible as a task, in Code or User Interface category? I don't see why it should

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-15 Thread Quim Gil
On 10/11/2013 02:59 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Let's discuss and eventually decide our next steps next at Engineering Community Team office hour Today we decided that we will attempt to apply as Wikimedia to Google Code-in by October 28. There is a lot of work to be done, and by the nature of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-15 Thread Liangent
On 10/16/2013, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10/11/2013 02:59 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Let's discuss and eventually decide our next steps next at Engineering Community Team office hour Today we decided that we will attempt to apply as Wikimedia to Google Code-in by October 28. There

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-12 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Since I've been asked... ;-) On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: I organized GNOME's participation in Google Code-In (and its predecessor GHOP) three times in the past. I've done it tree times for KDE now (together with other people). We also applied

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-11 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 11:11 -0700, Quim Gil wrote: I'm pretty sure that there is a task that most of us could mentor. It doesn't need to be related with the MediaWiki codebase. Come on, think harder! ;) I organized GNOME's participation in Google Code-In (and its predecessor GHOP) three

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-11 Thread Abel Rodríguez Vera
We should get in! 2013/10/11 Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 11:11 -0700, Quim Gil wrote: I'm pretty sure that there is a task that most of us could mentor. It doesn't need to be related with the MediaWiki codebase. Come on, think harder! ;) I organized

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-11 Thread Quim Gil
On 10/11/2013 10:21 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: These are the topics that I consider important to discuss before deciding. Thank you very much for this analysis! Also thank you MatmaRex for your first-hand experience as a Code-in participant. PS: Lydia of WMDE organized GCI for KDE in 2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-10 Thread Derric Atzrott
Google Code-in has been announced: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 This is about 13-17 year old students performing tasks that can be isolated and a skilled contributor would complete in a couple of hours. The tasks mjust have a mentor and can be related to code,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-10 Thread Quim Gil
On 10/10/2013 11:00 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote: Beyond having mentors are there anymore requirements that we need to fulfil as an organisation? I wasn't able to find an FAQ for organisations wishing to participate. Do you know if one exists? There is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

2013-10-10 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
This is a great idea. I was a Code-in participant in the past and enjoyed it (even though there were basically no web-related tasks back then – hopefully MediaWiki can fill this niche ;) ). Skills and eagerness of young wannabe-programmers are often underestimated, Code-in is a lovely project