Woohoo! Everybody prepare your bugs and feature reqs for bite-sized work units!
-- brion On Friday, November 1, 2013, Quim Gil wrote: > Wikimedia is one of the ten organizations selected to participate in > Google Code-in 2013! This means that on November 18 we will start having > hundreds of 13-17 year old students looking at Wikimedia tech tasks to be > completed. > > The announcement: > http://google-opensource.**blogspot.com/2013/11/** > mentoring-organizations-for-**google-code.html<http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/11/mentoring-organizations-for-google-code.html> > > Our GCI page: > https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Google_Code-In<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In> > > If you are involved in FOSS Outreach Program for Women in any way you can > stop reading here. Otherwise, please stay with us. This program is a very > good opportunity to find fresh young helpers willing to complete that > little task that has been sitting in your ToDo list for too long. > > > WE NEED STRUCTURE > > Andre Klapper and me are the Wikimedia org admins and we will take a lot > of dirty and boring work so the rest of you don't have to. However, we > won't be able to make it without meta-mentors. > > META-MENTORS are seasoned contributors that have a good knowledge of the > relevant technologies, features and people involved in a specific area. > They are also mentors of some tasks in their areas, but their role includes > looking for more mentors that bring more tasks, and coordinate with them. > GCI organizations get an average of 150-200 tasks completed during the > program. You see the need for a distributed structure that scales. > > GCI has five areas: > > * Code (proposing MatmaRex, helped by ?) > * Documentation/Training (guillom, helped by ?) > * Outreach/Research (?, helped by Quim - or the other way around) > * Quality Assurance (proposing Ċ½eljko, helped by Andre) > * User Interface (Pau and Jorm) > > Please, help substituting question marks with names. > > > WE NEED MENTORS BRINGING TASKS > > The deal is simple: join GCI as mentor and bring your little tasks (that > would take you 2-3 hours to complete). You need to describe the tasks for a > newcomer, linking to the resources needed to complete them. You also need > to be ready to answer the questions of the students assigning your tasks to > them. > > We will have more specific instructions for mentors before the beginning > of the program. > > > WE NEED PEOPLE PROPOSING TASKS > > Even if you can't mentor a specific task we still want to know about it. > All we need is a bug report with > > gci2013 > https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Google_Code-In#Candidate_**tasks<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In#Candidate_tasks> > > added to its Whiteboard field to make it easy to track them. Please CC the > related meta-mentors, Andre and me. > > Questions? Please ask and you will help us improving our documentation. > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
