Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
(cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@)

Hello,

Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest for
youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range:

        http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012

It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to that
(Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this year as
well.

For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100.

I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please submit
your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here:

        http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1

Examples of previously completed tasks:

        http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks

Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and submit
straight to Wiki:

        http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks

I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this project.

Help will be appreciated.


Update:

It looks pretty bad so far. Page:

        http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks

Has 38 tasks so far out of which:

        ~30 would qualify.

Consider this e-mail to be the last call for action. Otherwise we'll have to
pull back and concentrate our efforts on GSOC instead.


The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation. I would want to use and develop my coding skills. To that end there a lot of simple PR's waiting for attention. This is an target area that young coders would find more interesting.

Such as kern/170090
or
replacing the Freebsd Ipfilter v4.1.28 version with the current Ipfilter version 5.1.2. This is just reusing the tools used last time ipfilter was ported over.

Just my 2 cents.

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