Interesting report, thanks for making it available! Thank you to all the mentors who made this possible.
Regards Sumit Srivastava On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm Walter Bender, <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for pulling together this report. > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:38 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam < > ibiamchihurumn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> This is a report about last year's GCI. >> >> 674 students participated. Of those, 245 completed at least one task. >> The most popular task completed by students was our beginner task: "Make >> a Pull Request", which was completed by 100 students. 60 students completed >> the "Install the Sugar Environment" task. >> >> • Briefly what was merged; that is, the work that has become part of >> the Sugar Labs software. >> >> We have about 91 PRs that were merged, >> >> Sugar/Activities = 20 >> Sugarizer = 20 >> MusicBlocks = 38 >> TurtleBlocks = 2 >> Sugar Social = 6 >> Sugar Website = 5 >> >> • Briefly what remains to be merged; work of value that we should >> focus on completing ourselves. >> >> These are the open PRs from gci students >> https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/task-instances/5046504289992704/ >> https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/pull/1626 >> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/401 >> https://github.com/sugarlabs/cookie-search-activity/pull/17 >> https://github.com/sugarlabs/Bounce/pull/13 >> https://github.com/sugarlabs/gmail-activity/pull/28 >> https://github.com/sugarlabs/block-party-activity/pull/7 >> https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pull/103 >> >> There are 12 PRs that were not merged in Music Blocks, a handful of which >> are still under review. >> >> • Briefly what won't be merged; work that we don't see value in merging. >> >> A lot of the design tasks won't be merged but they'll be used for >> marketing. >> >> One of the tasks we had was to gather contributors data from the wiki and >> translations, they won't be merged but we're making use of the data for our >> contributors page, and the contributors page still has an open PR >> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/pull/251> being worked on by >> one of the students, although that wasn't a GCI project but it's >> something we need to complete. >> >> • What funding Google provided, >> We received $2500 midway through the competition. >> We also received $2200 earlier this month for the mentor's trip to >> Silicon valley. >> >> • What travel we should expect to fund, e.g. a mentor to a summit, >> We should expect to fund about $2200 for a mentor. >> >> • How our new mentors performed >> Our new mentors did well as they responded to the students in a timely >> manner. >> >> And sometimes it seemed there were conflicts between the mentors, where >> one would request something from a student and another would request >> something else thereby confusing the student about what to do. >> This is legitimate and why Walter asked that only a select group of >> mentors sign off on tasks to begin with, that request was occasionally >> ignored. Might be something that Google need to add for next time. >> >> When the competition started, some non coding tasks were accepted >> although they weren't of high quality, but this stopped as we moved further >> into the competition. >> Walter and I in our emails added that tasks of low quality shouldn't be >> accepted as a reminder to the mentors. >> >> • Your overall impression of this event >> >> The event was fun and I enjoyed every bit of it. >> >> • How we might improve next year. >> >> It may seem like conventional wisdom that some of our mentors lacked >> knowledge about some tasks or weren't contributors to Sugar Labs but every >> mentor had previously contributed to Sugar Labs in one way or another. >> >> It'll be great if the tasks we want are agreed upon as an org, as this >> gives a definite direction and narrows down the type of tasks we have. >> >> Although it seems as if we got little if any help from the community in >> generating task ideas. It was all on the shoulders of just a few of us. >> That needs to improve. And I think we had too many open-ended design tasks >> -- we should pare back that somewhat next year, but not eliminate them. >> (They are required by Google, for one thing.) Maybe structure them such >> that a student can only do 1 or 2 simple design tasks by marking them as >> beginner tasks (although I think that was the case for the most part this >> year too.) >> >> -- >> >> Ibiam Chihurumnaya >> ibiamchihurumn...@sugarlabs.org <ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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