Google Code-In (GCI) is "a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make free and open source software (FOSS) development possible. Students must complete tasks, one at a time. It is sponsored and run by Google. The Wikimedia Foundation has participated since 2013. The Google Code-in 2015 contest runs from December 07, 2015 to January 27, 2016"
The full mediawiki page about GCI is here[1]. The question for us is whether it would be worth spending some time getting our phabricator tasks flagged in ways that these students could meaningfully contribute.
The page[1] mentions both "beginner" tasks (30 minutes effort by an experienced developer), and normal tasks (2-3 hours for someone experienced). The normal tasks should have 2 mentors available.
Any interest?
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015
Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation