On 10/25/2012 03:48 AM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
On 10/22/2012 06:31 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Last year we decided not to participate in Google Code-In https://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2012/...
, an outreach program to help us get more 13-to-17-year-old contributors. I outlined the reasons here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-October/055937.html
This year, we are again eligible to apply to participate. I estimate that we'd need about 2 organizational administrators and 21 mentors to do it well. So I've opened signups at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In and explained what those people would be committing to. If you want us to apply to participate in GCI this winter, please comment on that page by November 1st. Thanks.
I wanted to ping the list again about this....our project and others will really benefit from having new contributors, and the tech community at large will benefit from the education we can help provide these students. And of course, it means new community members and a generally more informed public.
Please consider signing the list before the deadline, I'd really love to see this program happen. I'm willing to help a lot, but I can't do it all!
Thanks,
We weren't able to get enough mentors to sign up to do Google Code-In, so we will not be participating. I know this disappoints some of you; we do want to encourage new participants, and we want some structured mentorship that isn't just Google Summer of Code. I will start a new thread about a more suitable program for us to participate in. :-)