Google Code-in 2017 just started: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017

You might remember the announcement email from a few weeks ago.[1]

In the next seven weeks, many young people are going to make their first contributions to Wikimedia. Expect many questions on IRC and on mailing lists by newcomers who have never used IRC or lists before. Your help and patience is welcome to provide a helping hand!

Thanks to all mentors who have already registered & provided tasks!

You have not become a mentor yet? Please consider it! You get some smaller tasks fixed and it is fun!

* Think of easy tasks in your area that you could mentor. Areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, and user interface. "Easy" means 2-3h to complete for you, or less technical ~30min "beginner tasks" for onboarding). * OR: provide an easy 'clonable' task (a task that is generic and could be repeated many times by different students). * Note that you commit to answer to students' questions and to evaluate their work within 36 hours (but the better your task description the less questions. No worries, we're here to help!)

For the full info, please check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and ask if something is unclear.

Thank you again for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn about and work on all aspects of Free & Open Source Software projects.

Now bring your tasks!

Cheers, andre

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017- October/088956.html