FYI:
Wikimedia has been accepted as one of 25 organizations in Google Code-
in (GCI) 2017!
GCI is a contest for 13-17 year old students to work on smaller tasks
on your To-Do list. It starts on Nov 28th. We need at least 75 tasks by
then. Code, docs, research, design, QA, anything (except translations)!
What you should do:
BECOME A MENTOR:
1. Go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017
2. Add yourself to the mentor's table.
3. Get an invitation email to register on the contest site.
IDENTIFY AND PROVIDE SMALL TASKS:
1. Create a Phabricator task (which would take you 2-3h to complete)
or pick an existing Phabricator task you'd mentor.
2. Add the "Google-Code-In-2017" project tag.
3. Add a comment "I will mentor this in #GCI2017".
Feel free to directly create tasks on the GCI website yourself once
you've registered. (We can also import them for you.) If your project
does not use Phabricator: Just create tasks directly on the GCI site.
Looking for task ideas? Check the "easy" tasks in Phabricator:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugsoffers links.
Make sure to cover expectations and deliverables in your task.
And once the contest starts on Nov 28, be ready to answer and review
contributions quickly (within 36 hours).
Any questions? Just ask, we're happy to help.
Thank you for your help to get young people into FOSS projects!
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
(An early heads-up that Google Code-in 2017 has been announced.)
GCI is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take
place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks.
For some achievements from last round, see
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/
For complete info about Google Code-in, check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted:
* You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed?
* Your documentation needs specific improvements?
* Your user interface has small design issues?
* Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks?
* You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua?
* Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls?
* You have tasks in mind that welcome some research?
Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and
"generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues
from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 ").
Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :)
And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R
Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your
p
roject(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
and please ask if you have any questions!
Thanks!,
andre
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Good Day Developer,
You may have attended the AWMD training organised at IMPACT HUB some weeks
back by Open Foundation West Africa. It was awesome having you around. In
view of the major discussions around strengthening the community with
constant debugging to increase our bragging rights across Africa, we would
want to know if you:
- Would you be ready to work as an active volunteer developer on the
(Africa Wikimedia Developer Project in Ghana) AWMD Ghana Team? We are
looking at getting a Team that would work actively on solving bugs and
continue the good work that was started. In so doing we would want to
know your decision and if you are ready to put to use, the skills acquired
from the training we had sometime back.
- Can tell us if you think you can make time within your schedule to
champion this great course?
- Are familiar with github and slack? If not we can provide more insight
and support to get you going smoothly.
However, based on your response we would send you the details to our
(collective/unified) github account and our slack account details so that
we can get ""debugging"" :) :)
Please confirm your email and contact number by writing it as part of your
reply to this email.
NB: This mail is to only Ghanaian developers.
Regards,
Edward Afful
Lead AWMD Ghana Team
Hi everyone,
I am not from Ghana but I am interested in helping with the good work.
Please let me know if I can be a part of this.
GitHub: gyana111(a)gmail.com
Thank you.
On 30-Sep-2017 16:36, "Alfred Afutu" <alfredafutu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I would love to actively contribute to the Wikimedia project.
>
> Email: alfredafutu(a)gmail.com
> Contact: 0555501853
>
> On Sep 30, 2017 09:15, "Edward Afful" <eddyafful(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good Day Developer,
>>
>> You may have attended the AWMD training organised at IMPACT HUB some
>> weeks back by Open Foundation West Africa. It was awesome having you
>> around. In view of the major discussions around strengthening the community
>> with constant debugging to increase our bragging rights across Africa, we
>> would want to know if you:
>>
>> - Would you be ready to work as an active volunteer developer on the
>> (Africa Wikimedia Developer Project in Ghana) AWMD Ghana Team? We
>> are looking at getting a Team that would work actively on solving bugs and
>> continue the good work that was started. In so doing we would want to
>> know your decision and if you are ready to put to use, the skills acquired
>> from the training we had sometime back.
>> - Can tell us if you think you can make time within your schedule to
>> champion this great course?
>> - Are familiar with github and slack? If not we can provide more
>> insight and support to get you going smoothly.
>>
>> However, based on your response we would send you the details to our
>> (collective/unified) github account and our slack account details so
>> that we can get ""debugging"" :) :)
>>
>> Please confirm your email and contact number by writing it as part of
>> your reply to this email.
>>
>>
>> NB: This mail is to only Ghanaian developers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Edward Afful
>> Lead AWMD Ghana Team
>>
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