Ok, we have started a page on http://wiki.wesnoth.org/GCI to collect task ideas, please help us fill it in before friday so we can register as a project
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Timotei Dolean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Well, I think, Wesnoth being known in linux world, there are kids in 13-17 > who play it (there are a lot actually), > and would like to get introduced in the FOSS World and help their 'loved > Game'. > yes, we thought that wesnoth would be a prefect project for GCI > The translations could have been greatly enhanced, especially because they > are split > by categories, and are easy to handle with. Just needed to know english (and > a dictionary) > to translate it in your own language. > :) hopefully 13 year old grammar will be better in other languages than french :P > Also, if you were talking about the aesthesics of the maps, were you > referring > to the new terrains? That would be awesome, to convert all > scenarios/campaigns yes, that's the idea... no game changes, but spreading all the new terrains over the old equivalent ones. It would be cool if the people that did this so far could tell us how offloadable this task is > to the new ones. > > +1 For reorganizing the wiki. Maybe that will help ppls to know better the > code, > since some changes need to be based on the code. Or are we going to use > eventually the wiki/comment graber generator eventually? > reorganizing the wiki is a great generic idea, but i'm not sure how we want it reorganized, if you have some more precise idea, could you fill in a template in the task list ? > I'd say a Yes for participating. > thx for the support > Timo > > On 10/24/2010 05:32, jeremy rosen wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev > > _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
