>Google Code-in has been announced: > >http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 > >This is about 13-17 year old students performing tasks that can be >isolated and a skilled contributor would complete in a couple of hours. >The tasks mjust have a mentor and can be related to code, documentation, >outreach, QA or UX. Participants get one point for each task completed >and they can complete as many as they can between 18 November and 6 January. > >Wikimedia can apply thanks to our participation on GSoC 2013. The >deadline is 28 October. Only 10 organizations will be accepted. > >I think we should apply. Main reasons: > >... > >But of course this will only work if many projects want to step in with >a task and a mentor for it. So what do you think?
I personally think this is a great idea. I would have killed (metaphorically speaking) to have been able to participate in something like this with Mediawiki when I was in that age range. I concur that it seems like a good way to get annoying little bugs solved. Beyond having mentors are there anymore requirements that we need to fulfil as an organisation? I wasn't able to find an FAQ for organisations wishing to participate. Do you know if one exists? If I had more time, and had contributed more code (or any code) to the Mediawiki codebase (which I mostly don't due to the aforementioned lack of time), I would offer to mentor even. This seems like a really great opportunity to pick up some new volunteers and get some annoying bugs out of the way. Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
