On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:09:29PM -0500, Mo Morsi wrote: > Hey all just a reminder, this is still going on and tasks can be added > anytime. > > This is a contest for high school students so tasks have to be quite a bit > smaller in scope than what your used to and mentoring students takes some > time, but is definitely a worthwhile experience IMO. > > As before, if you're interested in this just shout out here or on IRC and > we can figure something out.
I think this would be interesting, though I'm struggling with the forwarded email. I'm assuming it was just a phrasing thing, but it came across more like, "Make a list of menial labor for high school students to do!" than about creating a rewarding program that helps them get real-world experience. One thing that I think might be interesting, if a little open-ended, would be for people to pick some sort of user story (or invent one), inspired by our Personas, and then set up Aeolus + run it through its paces, creating good documentation on the process. I think it would: a.) Get us good new-user feedback. I think it's easy for us full-time developers to just become accustomed to odd workflows or whatnot. b.) Get us good step-by-step documentation around setup and workflows. We haven't always done a good job here, and getting someone to write about actually using Conductor for an interesting task would be great. c.) Give the student(s) experience with cloud computing, open source projects, documentation, usability, and testing/QA. I'm a little confused by the email referring to it as a 'contest', though. Is the type of thing I described not what they're looking for? Another potential task might be the Redmine-to-Github wiki conversion, which has been my "next-up" task for several weeks without me actually getting to it. But I had hoped that part of the process would be to go through pages and identify what is crap, what needs updating, and what is still current, which isn't something that lends itself to newcomers. I'm kind of asking here because I wonder if these are the sort of things the project is actually looking for. Do you have a link to the actual Google program? -- Matt
