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 Željko, 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.
Woohoo! Everybody prepare your bugs and feature reqs for bite-sized work units!
-- brion
On Friday, November 1, 2013, Quim Gil wrote:
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-**google-code.htmlhttp://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/11/mentoring-organizations-for-google-code.html
Our GCI page: https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Google_Code-Inhttps://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 Željko, 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_**taskshttps://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.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgilhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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I've been thinking of having the Wikidata mobile skin use CSS3 animations instead of jQuery and adding a two column layout for tablets.
I think this shouldn't take more than a few hours each and I'm pretty sure I'm capable enough to help students along if they'd like to pick this task up. Is this something that I could propose for GCI?
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Woohoo! Everybody prepare your bugs and feature reqs for bite-sized work units!
-- brion
On Friday, November 1, 2013, Quim Gil wrote:
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-**google-code.html<
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/11/mentoring-organizations-for-go...
Our GCI page: https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Google_Code-In<
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In%3E
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 Željko, 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< https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In#Candidate_tasks%3E
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.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil%3E
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Hi Pragun, I'm very happy to see you around and posting.
On 11/01/2013 10:27 AM, Pragun Bhutani wrote:
I've been thinking of having the Wikidata mobile skin use CSS3 animations instead of jQuery and adding a two column layout for tablets.
I think this shouldn't take more than a few hours each and I'm pretty sure I'm capable enough to help students along if they'd like to pick this task up. Is this something that I could propose for GCI?
YES!
Finishing tasks related to GSoC projects is a classic source of GCI tasks, I was told by Google and other organizations participating in this program.
The former GSoC student is the most indicated GCI mentor for these tasks. This is how the cycle of the free software contributor works when all the factors are in place.
Thank you for stepping in.
On 11/01/2013 12:06 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
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
This is great. I will not be mentoring this round, but I will use this field when appropriate.
Matt Flaschen
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