Google has announced the application period for Google Code-In 2012. As decided earlier (https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sympy/KrpvxADqAxM/discussion), we should apply. See http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 for more information about it, as well as http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInformation2012.
The application deadline is November 5, two weeks from today. I need help doing two things: - Edit the application. I have started the organization application based on last year's at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GCI-2012-Organization-Application. But we need to edit it to talk about our experiences with the program from last year. - We need to create tasks. I have recreated the GCI labels in the issue tracker. A couple of notes here: * There are only five categories this year. They have consolidated outreach/research and documentation/training into single tasks, and they have eliminated translation tasks. I haven't yet fixed this in the issue tracker (but anyone who can add labels can bulk edit issues, so feel free to do this). * They have removed the difficulty ratings. All tasks should now have the same difficulty. The metric that they are telling us is that a task should take an experienced project member (that's you guys) approximately two hours to complete. Anything harder should be broken into multiple tasks. We can also create tasks for SymPy-Bot, which uses the GitHub issue tracker. See https://github.com/sympy/sympy-bot/issues?state=open. I don't know how the permissions work with labels on GitHub, so let me know if you are unable to add labels to issues. SymPy Live and SymPy Gamma are also good sources for tasks (add these to the Google Code issue tracker). We need to have a good chunk of tasks ready by the 5th to show Google, but not all of them have to be created at that point. We do need to have a certain number of each type, though. Additionally, this year, we can add tasks at any time, so there will not be a hard deadline for that later on like there was last year. - If you are interested in mentoring, please add your name to the bottom of the application. I guess we should also create a mentors page like the one we had last year. Also, go to google-melange.com and create a profile (you have to do it again even if you've mentored before, as it resets with each program). I would greatly appreciate help with this. Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
