Google Code-in 2016 just started:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016
In the next seven weeks, many young people are going to make their
first contributions to Wikimedia. Expect many questions on IRC and
mailing lists by onboarding newcomers who have never used IRC or lists
before. Your help and patience is welcome to provide a helping hand!
Thanks to all mentors who have already registered & provided tasks!
You have not become a mentor yet? Please do consider it.
It is fun and we do need more tasks! :)
* Think of easy tasks in your area that you could mentor.
Areas are: Code, docs/training, outreach/research, quality
assurance, and user interface. "Easy" means 2-3h to complete for
you, or less technical ~30min "beginner tasks" for onboarding).
* OR: provide an easy 'clonable' task (a task that is generic and
could be repeated many times by different students).
* Note that you commit to answer to students' questions and to
evaluate their work within 36 hours (but the better your task
description the less questions. No worries, we're here to help!)
For the full info, please check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016/Mentors
and ask if something is unclear!
Thank you again for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn
about and work on all aspects of Free & Open Source Software projects!
Cheers,
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/