Google Code-in: YES, WE ARE IN! - Wikitech-l

1 Nov 2013

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-g…

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.

-- 
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil