Well, you can give us ideas, and the worse that can happen is that we'll reject them.
What I really need right now is commitment by mentors. So far, only two people (Sean and myself) have committed on the application. Aaron Meurer On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Dia Ken <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I really want to help in creating or tagging issues for tasks but i'll > participate as a student so i don't know if i can do that or not . > > > On 29 October 2012 07:33, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you are interested in helping out for GCI, at the very least add >> your name to the bottom of >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/gci-2012-organization-application >> (under the "Please tell us about how your organization has prepared >> for Google Code-in..." question). It would also help out if you >> edited the application to update it and/or did some work >> creating/tagging issues for tasks. >> >> So far, no one except for Sean seems to have done anything with this. >> If no one helps out with this, I will take that to mean that we don't >> have enough people interested in volunteering to be mentors, and I >> won't submit the application. >> >> Aaron Meurer >> >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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. >> > > > > -- > Greeting! > Kendhia :) > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
