Hi all, Based on our participation in the Summer of Code, Google invited us to apply for their revived program for 13-18 year olds called Google Code-In [1-2]. The basic idea is that students will complete a series of small tasks rather than one huge project, and the tasks don't even have to be related (or even involve programming!).
One really neat feature about GCI is that projects can be anything -- documentation, translation, coding, research, whatever. If you've been feeling that your ideas are left out by GSoC, this is your chance. After talking with a few devs, there seemed to be a lot of interest in us getting involved. The application deadline is very soon -- this Friday! We need a good ideas list by then if we're going to apply. I created a draft ideas page [3]; please fill it in by the end of the day on this Thursday. We're looking for tasks that would take a student 13-18 years old roughly 1-3 days to complete. Ideas might include writing man pages, translating a few webpages, perhaps some relatively straightforward bugfixes, etc. More general ideas are on our ideas page and the GCI homepage. Because tasks are so short, mentoring will not be a major burden, so don't let that hold you back. I look forward to seeing all your cool ideas! 1. http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html 2. http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/faqs.html 3. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Google_Code_In_2010_ideas -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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