Hoi,
At translatewiki.net we are quite happy to recognise Lewis as one of our
own.. He is one of our technical guys.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 October 2011 09:28, Lewis Cawte <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29/10/2011 02:38, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > (What follows is MediaWiki community stuff, not technical discussion,
> > offered in the interests of transparency and collaborative planning.)
> >
> > TL;DR version: I don't think we can do Google Code-In well, so I don't
> > think we should apply to participate this year.
> >
> > Since MediaWiki has participated in the Google Summer of Code mentorship
> > program, we have also received an offer to apply to participate in
> > Google Code-In, which runs Nov. 21 2011-Jan. 16 2011.
> >
> > "Google Code-in is a contest for pre-university students (e.g., high
> > school and secondary school students) with the aim of encouraging young
> > people to participate in open source. We work with open source
> > organizations, each of whom will provide a list of tasks to be completed
> > by student contestants. Tasks can be anything a project needs help with,
> > from bug fixes to writing documentation to user experience research."
> >
> >
> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2011/faq
> >
> > https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIAdminMentorInformation
> >
> > I have now gotten more information about what it's like to participate
> > in GCI, from organizations that have taken part in the past. And it
> > sounds like we just do not have the community capacity to do GCI this
> year.
> >
> > * I can't take the time to develop the task lists or wrangle others to
> > do so by the deadlines (applying by 1 November, creating big task lists
> > by 21 November), due to other commitments (another volunteer
> > development/mentoring program, India hackathon 18-19 November, mentoring
> > existing new contributors). And I do not believe anyone else in the
> > MediaWiki community has the capacity to administer our participation
> > between now and mid-January, either. Tell me if I'm wrong!
> >
> > * We'd need enough mentors on call to review the teenagers' assignments
> > as soon as they're submitted, so they aren't stuck waiting around before
> > they can grab a new task. This is for the whole two-month period,
> > including any winter holidays. Right now I do not think we can
> > satisfactorily guarantee that. We all have too much other work that
> > takes priority.
> >
> > So: it's a cool idea, but I don't think we can do it well in the given
> > time period, so I'm turning it down. (Unless you want to run it, and
> > can guarantee some mentors' attention! In which case, tell me ASAP so
> > we can get an application in by 1 November.)
> >
> > BUT: the number of participants we're getting in our Coding Challenge
> > (thanks, Greg!) means that if we want to do something like this
> > *ourselves* next year, on our timeline, we could probably get some
> > pretty good participation rates -- especially if we partner with
> > Wikimedia Foundation's Global Education Program. So let's come back to
> > this idea, perhaps sometime in the spring.
> >
> This upsets me, but I totally understand the reasoning for it...
> I was wondering when it'd next come around, and I was hoping
> MediaWiki/WMF would be in it...
>
> I'd be interested to participate in something like it, providing of
> course that the Brighton Hackathon attendees have a heart attack at my
> newbieness (which could well happen of course)...
>
> -- Lewis Cawte
> 1 of 2 Registered Teenagers attending Brighton Hackathon
>
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