On 10/25/2012 03:48 AM, Mark Holmquist wrote: > On 10/22/2012 06:31 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> Last year we decided not to participate in Google Code-In >> https://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2012/help_page >> >> , an outreach program to help us get more 13-to-17-year-old >> contributors. I outlined the reasons here: >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-October/055937.html >> >> This year, we are again eligible to apply to participate. I estimate >> that we'd need about 2 organizational administrators and 21 mentors to >> do it well. So I've opened signups at >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In and explained what those >> people would be committing to. If you want us to apply to participate >> in GCI this winter, please comment on that page by November 1st. Thanks. > > I wanted to ping the list again about this....our project and others > will really benefit from having new contributors, and the tech community > at large will benefit from the education we can help provide these > students. And of course, it means new community members and a generally > more informed public. > > Please consider signing the list before the deadline, I'd really love to > see this program happen. I'm willing to help a lot, but I can't do it all! > > Thanks,
We weren't able to get enough mentors to sign up to do Google Code-In, so we will not be participating. I know this disappoints some of you; we do want to encourage new participants, and we want some structured mentorship that isn't just Google Summer of Code. I will start a new thread about a more suitable program for us to participate in. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
