Hello all google has opened the google code in which is an open source contribution competition for kids in the 13-17 age range
Basically FOSS projects create a list of easy tasks that students can accomplish easily. students can claim these tasks and once they've done three of these they get paid 100$, they can get up to $500 that way, resolving more tasks will give them extra point toward a grand price (a travel for them and a family member to the googleplex) Only organisations that were members of GSOC can participate and provide the tasks for the students. These tasks are not limited to coding, there can be playtesting, translation, documentation, quality assurence etc... These task should be quite simple (doable in a couple of hours) and targeted for people external to the projects, but we can provide lots and lots of small tasks There is no mentoring involved except providing the task lists and generic advices... you can learn more at http://code.google.com/gci so the question for all of you people is : are we interested, and do we have some tasks to provide which would bring something to the projects. here at GSOC we thought of stuff including * playtesting 1.9 * playtesting mp campaigns * working on the wiki (reorganizing/checking) * helping on translations * reworking some wml macros * reworking the aethetic of maps so i'm particularly interested from people that might have such tasks available. We have to register to be an organisation before friday, but we just need to provide a list of task reflecting the sort of tasks we would provide to students (we can add more at any point, including during the code-in itself if we run out of tasks) please try to give feedback soon so we can work it out rapidely cheers Boucman _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
