[GRASS-dev] We need mentors for Google Code-In

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Veronica Andreo wrote
> Hey devs,
> 
> As the subject reads: We need more mentors for Google Code-In :)
> 
> GCI is a competition addressed to high-school students aged 13-17, as an
> introduction to the open source world. They are supposed to complete as
> much tasks as possible to win the contest. These tasks should be short
> simple stuff (3-5 hours), but since they have to complete several to win,
> we need to plan lots of them and be available to review what the students
> submit rather quickly, so they can start with a new one. For that reason,
> it is better if we are more mentors.
> 
> Here is the GRASS wiki [0] with more details and a collection of ideas for
> tasks that should then be further explained and developed in the format of
> tasks. I think the ideas are nice and this could be a funny experience.
> Moreover, we could attract new generations and benefit from their
> creativity ;)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Vero
> 
> [0] https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GCI_Ideas_2017

to gather more interested mentors, maybe it's worth to broaden it by post it
to also to the GRASS user ML, as not only code writing is needed.




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Helmut
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