[GRASS-dev] Fwd: [SoC] Google Code In (GCI) 2017 just announced! And we want to participate

[Luca Delucchi]

Someone interested?

could be useful for testing (and maybe test case),  docs and translation...


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
Date: 19 September 2017 at 13:48
Subject: [SoC] Google Code In (GCI) 2017 just announced! And we want
to participate
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>,
geoforall at lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo-SoC <soc at lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: "gsoc-adminosgeo.org" <gsoc-admin at osgeo.org>, atd.schubert at gmail.com


Dear Community,

great news! Google Code-in has just been officially announced [1] and
we are excited to apply for the first time as mentoring organization!
Google Code In is a program addressed to students aged 13 to 17.

As always, we need your help! We need mentors.
Mentors for Google code in are not necessarily top developers (they
are also needed, but not only). Also educators, advocates, researchers
are much needed, people that normally take care of documentation and
preparation of educational material, that give presentations, take
care of web site or wiki etc.

In fact, the tasks for google code in are supposed to take 3 to 5
hours for students to complete, and entail:
* coding
* documentation / training
* outreach / research
* quality assurance
* user interface

See examples here [2].

The idea is to individuate suitable tasks and submit them in the bug
tracker with a special keyword like "beginner" or something TBD. In
this way, students can easily find and claim the task they're
interested in.

Note that the whole "how to" is to be discussed yet, for the moment,
let's try to create a critical mass of interested volunteers.

Here [3] I created a wiki page with relevant info, instructions,
timeline etc. Kindly take a look and if you are willing to
participate, please write an email to gsoc-admin AT osgeo.org, we will
send you a form to fill with your data. Next step: in less than one
week from now we'll have the first kickoff meeting on IRC in the
channel #osgeo-gsoc at Freenode. Everyone that will have filled the
form will be informed about exact date and time.

Please, do participate, and bring your questions, your ideas and your
energy with you. We don't have all the answers, but will try to figure
things out together.. We believe that engaging the young generation
will bring in OSGeo a breeze of innovation and fresh energy. Don't
miss the opportunity to be part of the change!

Cheers!!


[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-code-in-2017.html
[2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/example-tasks
[3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017

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Luca

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