Projects that we’ve showcased on the landing pages of GSOC 2017 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017>/Outreachy Round 14 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14> are receiving great interest from students. See here: T158296 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158296>, T63989 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63989>, and T148969 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148969>.
We need your help to make the same case for a few more projects which are almost ready to be featured but need a little bit more attention, and mentoring support: - Editor-focused dashboard gadget (T91655 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91655>) [Needs mentors who are familiar w/ developing gadgets, or design research*]* - Single Image Batch Upload (T138464 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138464>) *[*Needs a mentor with skills: vacant, toollabs, skills/OAuth, frontend] - Create a captcha that is also a useful micro edit (T87598 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598>) [Needs discussion] - Improvements to ProofreadPage extension and wikisource (T128840 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128840>) [Missing mentors] - One of the subtasks of a developer Wishlist proposal: Customizable templates for core HTML email <http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156231> *[*Needs discussion + missing mentors] Not what you could help with is in the list above? Help review a few from the possible-tech-projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/>. Looking forward (: Cheers, Srishti On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Sumit Asthana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:02 PM, James Hare <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just had an idea. My bot Reports Bot is always in need of updates and >> minor maintenance, and I think GSOC could be good for people interested in >> working in Python. But I don't want to propose something if it would be too >> much work for the person doing it. Is there guidance on how complex/major >> these tasks and projects can or should be? > > > You shouldn't worry about the difficulty of the task for GSoC per se. What > matters is that you create a phab task and add "*possible-tech-projects*" > and "*GSoC-2017*" tag to the project. Once thats done, we can help with > working out its scope for the GSoC internship through phabricator. > Even if the goal is big, I'm sure the task could be broken down into > smaller chunks to make it suitable for the internship. The rest could be > finished up as a followup. Please feel free to add your task. > > >> >> > On Feb 27, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Srishti Sethi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Wikimedia got accepted among the 201 organizations in the Google Sumer >> of >> > Code (GSOC) 2017 <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/>! >> > >> > We are trying to make it easier for prospective students to choose a >> > project idea and get started. And, so we are considering to showcase a >> > bunch of project ideas on the MediaWiki GSOC page itself: >> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017. >> > >> > Help us by mentoring a project from here: >> > >> > - Check out the tasks in the '*Missing Mentors*' and '*Almost Ready to >> > be Mentored*' column on Possible-Tech-Projects >> > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/> >> > workboard. >> > - Check out the ''*Wishlist 11-30 (needs owner)*" and *"Wishlist 31-50 >> > (needs owner)"* column on the Community-Wishlist-Survey-2016 >> > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2420/> workboard. >> > - Any portion of your project, which needs some support, would be a >> 2-3 >> > month long project for a beginner and overall a good learning >> experience. >> > >> > If you are interested in mentoring a project, add " >> > *Outreach-Programs-Projects*" and "*Google-Summer-of-Code (2017)*" tag >> to >> > the corresponding task on Phabricator. We will follow up with you from >> > there. >> > >> > If you are looking for design, and documentation related projects to >> > mentor, we are participating in the Outreachy >> > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_14> program as well in >> > parallel to GSOC. Add "*Outreach-Programs-Projects*" and "*Outreachy >> > (Round-14)*" tag to a task you are interested in mentoring. >> > >> > Email me if you've any questions, happy to help!! >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Srishti >> > >> > -- >> > Srishti Sethi >> > Developer Advocate >> > Technical Collaboration team >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > >> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > -- > -Thanks, > Sumit <http://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumit.iitp> > -- Srishti Sethi Developer Advocate Technical Collaboration team Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
