Wikimedia is one of the ten organizations selected to participate in Google Code-in 2013! This means that on November 18 we will start having hundreds of 13-17 year old students looking at Wikimedia tech tasks to be completed.
The announcement: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/11/mentoring-organizations-for-go...
Our GCI page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
If you are involved in FOSS Outreach Program for Women in any way you can stop reading here. Otherwise, please stay with us. This program is a very good opportunity to find fresh young helpers willing to complete that little task that has been sitting in your ToDo list for too long.
WE NEED STRUCTURE
Andre Klapper and me are the Wikimedia org admins and we will take a lot of dirty and boring work so the rest of you don't have to. However, we won't be able to make it without meta-mentors.
META-MENTORS are seasoned contributors that have a good knowledge of the relevant technologies, features and people involved in a specific area. They are also mentors of some tasks in their areas, but their role includes looking for more mentors that bring more tasks, and coordinate with them. GCI organizations get an average of 150-200 tasks completed during the program. You see the need for a distributed structure that scales.
GCI has five areas:
* Code (proposing MatmaRex, helped by ?) * Documentation/Training (guillom, helped by ?) * Outreach/Research (?, helped by Quim - or the other way around) * Quality Assurance (proposing Ċ½eljko, helped by Andre) * User Interface (Pau and Jorm)
Please, help substituting question marks with names.
WE NEED MENTORS BRINGING TASKS
The deal is simple: join GCI as mentor and bring your little tasks (that would take you 2-3 hours to complete). You need to describe the tasks for a newcomer, linking to the resources needed to complete them. You also need to be ready to answer the questions of the students assigning your tasks to them.
We will have more specific instructions for mentors before the beginning of the program.
WE NEED PEOPLE PROPOSING TASKS
Even if you can't mentor a specific task we still want to know about it. All we need is a bug report with
gci2013 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In#Candidate_tasks
added to its Whiteboard field to make it easy to track them. Please CC the related meta-mentors, Andre and me.
Questions? Please ask and you will help us improving our documentation.