On 23:19 Mon 25 Oct , Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Based on our participation in the Summer of Code, Google invited us to > apply for their revived program for 13-18 year olds called Google > Code-In [1-2]. The basic idea is that students will complete a series of > small tasks rather than one huge project, and the tasks don't even have > to be related (or even involve programming!). > > One really neat feature about GCI is that projects can be anything -- > documentation, translation, coding, research, whatever. If you've been > feeling that your ideas are left out by GSoC, this is your chance. > > After talking with a few devs, there seemed to be a lot of interest in > us getting involved. The application deadline is very soon -- this > Friday! We need a good ideas list by then if we're going to apply. I > created a draft ideas page [3]; please fill it in by the end of the day > on this Thursday. > > We're looking for tasks that would take a student 13-18 years old > roughly 1-3 days to complete. Ideas might include writing man pages, > translating a few webpages, perhaps some relatively straightforward > bugfixes, etc. More general ideas are on our ideas page and the GCI > homepage. Because tasks are so short, mentoring will not be a major > burden, so don't let that hold you back.
We now have 2 ideas. It's not even worth applying unless we can get closer to 10. If nobody puts up more ideas in the next ~6 hours, we won't be participating this year. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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