Hello, I am going to be a mentor and plan to spend 1-2 consecutive hours a day mentoring tasks/hanging around on irc.
Best, Ilnar Salimzianov (selimcan) 2014-10-23 18:57 GMT+02:00 Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > as you know, "Google Code-In is a contest for pre-university students > (e.g., high school and secondary school students) with the goal of > encouraging young people to participate in open source.". Google Code-In > works "with open source organizations", such as Apertium, "each of whom > will provide a list of tasks to be completed by student contestants. Tasks > can be anything an organization needs help with, from bug fixes, to writing > code, to user experience research, to writing documentation. The contest > takes place entirely online." > > Apertium has been part one of the Google Code-In organizations every year > since its inception in 2010. Note that only about 10 organizations are part > of it every year: it's a very exclusive club. > > We need more Apertium developers to become involved. If we succeed in our > application, which has to go in before November 10, there will be hundreds > of tasks and hundreds of participants, eager to get feedback on their work > by email or on IRC. GCI 2014 [1] will run between December 1 and January > 18. > > We need you to: > > *Propose tasks that you can mentor*. We have hundreds of unfinished tasks > left over from other GCIs. You could easily mentor some of these. But you > can propose tasks of a similar size that may help our project. Think of > teenager-level, a-few-days tasks that can help that part of Apertium where > you are working. You can look at task descriptions (and the interaction > with students) in previous editions [2,5] by typing Apertium in the > Organization field. We also keep task descriptions in the Apertium wiki > [6], and this is where you could propose new tasks. When proposing a task, > think about how long the tasks take to be reviewed or explained, and how > easy it will be for other people to review work. Note that having a good > task page at application time increases our chances of being part of GCI > this year. > > *Actually mentor tasks*: this means being available to discuss tasks with > student, evaluate the results, and make sure results are made available in > our repository. This means you have to read your email often for > notifications and ideally hang around on our IRC channel, although this is > not entirely necesssary. Tasks can have more than one mentor. > > *Volunteer to administer*: there is some work involved in making tasks > available through the Mélange site: importing them, classifying them, > making sure they have a description. > > I hope I haven't forgotten anything: past mentors and admins, please add > or correct. > > I look forward to hearing from you. > > Mikel L. Forcada > interim president of the Apertium Project Management Committee > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014 > [2] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/tasks/google/gci2010 > [3] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/tasks/google/gci2011 > [4] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/tasks/google/gci2012 > [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/tasks/google/gci2013 > [6] http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Task_ideas_for_Google_Code-in > -- > Mikel L. Forcada E-mail: [email protected] > Departament de Llenguatges Phone: +34-96-590-9776 > i Sistemes Informàtics also +34-96-590-3772. > UNIVERSITAT D'ALACANT Fax: +34-96-590-9326, -3464 > E-03071 ALACANT, Spain. > > URL: http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff > >
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