Hi Huggle crew,
Google Code-In (GCI) will soon take place again - a contest for 13-17 year old students to contribute to free software projects.
Wikimedia wants to take part again. Last year's GCI results were surprisingly good - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2013
We need your help:
1) Go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner and read the information there. If something is unclear, ask!
2) Add yourself to the table of mentors on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Contacting_Wikimedia_ment... - the more mentors are listed the better our chances are that Google accepts us.
3) Please take ten minutes and go through open recent tickets in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org in your area of interest. If you see self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear approach which you can recommend to new developers and would mentor: Add the task to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Proposed_tasks
Until Sunday November 12th, we need at least five tasks from the categories Code, Docs/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, and UI/Design (plus some less technical beginner tasks as well).
Note that you could also create rather generic tasks, for example fixing two interface messages from the list of dependencies of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38638
Potentially helpful Bugzilla links:
* Open Huggle tickets created in the last twelve months: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_st...
* Zero Huggle "easy" tickets: :( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_st...
Could you imagine mentoring some of these tasks?
Thank you for your help in reaching out to new contributors and making GCI a success again! Please ask if you have questions.
Cheers, andre
PS: And in a future Phabricator world, Bugzilla tickets with the 'easy' keyword will become Phabricator tasks with the 'easy' project.
Hi,
This is a good idea, I will try to get some easy tasks and will list myself there. Thanks
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Huggle crew,
Google Code-In (GCI) will soon take place again - a contest for 13-17 year old students to contribute to free software projects.
Wikimedia wants to take part again. Last year's GCI results were surprisingly good - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2013
We need your help:
- Go to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Mentors.27_corner and read the information there. If something is unclear, ask!
- Add yourself to the table of mentors on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Contacting_Wikimedia_ment...
- the more mentors are listed the better our chances are that Google
accepts us.
- Please take ten minutes and go through open recent tickets in
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org in your area of interest. If you see self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear approach which you can recommend to new developers and would mentor: Add the task to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014#Proposed_tasks
Until Sunday November 12th, we need at least five tasks from the categories Code, Docs/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, and UI/Design (plus some less technical beginner tasks as well).
Note that you could also create rather generic tasks, for example fixing two interface messages from the list of dependencies of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38638
Potentially helpful Bugzilla links:
- Open Huggle tickets created in the last twelve months:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_st...
- Zero Huggle "easy" tickets: :(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_st...
Could you imagine mentoring some of these tasks?
Thank you for your help in reaching out to new contributors and making GCI a success again! Please ask if you have questions.
Cheers, andre
PS: And in a future Phabricator world, Bugzilla tickets with the 'easy' keyword will become Phabricator tasks with the 'easy' project.
-- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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