Hi! With the application process opening in 2 days and not having enough volunteers or having done anything about it (see forwarded email below), the best is not applying for the code-in this year :(
On other news, the delegation for this year's GSoC finishes tomorrow [1]. I think everything is closed, if you have some email pending, ping about it because it has been forgotten. If it is related to travel reimbursement, it should go to SPI treasurer. If you're interested in helping to run the program next year, this list continues open to discuss improvements, suggestions and better ways to do things in the next edition. Thanks everybody, Ana [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00006.html ----- Forwarded message from Stephanie Taylor <[email protected]> ----- From: Stephanie Taylor <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:09:58 -0700 Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Application to be a GCI Mentoring Org - Things to Consider before the application process opens Oct 22nd Message-ID: <CAEp7XcTj5PT9iowPdxF7TWgwBnmHuEK58j=+asas9lfgmhi...@mail.gmail.com> *Hi GSoC Mentors and Admins, We’ve been receiving quite a few questions about the Google Code-in 2012 [0] contest and we wanted to give you some more information so your orgs can start talking about whether you think the contest would be a good fit for your organization and you can start thinking about your applications and task list (one of the most important parts of your GCI application). Important Upcoming Dates: October 22, 2012 16:00 UTC - November 5, 2012 at 23:00 UTC - Orgs can go to google-melange.com and the org admin can register and fill out the application to be a mentoring organization for Google Code-in 2012. November 12, 2012 - The 10 Mentoring organizations are announced for Google Code-in 2012 and the orgs can start entering their tasks into the Google system (the tasks will not be viewable to students until the contest opens on Nov 26) November 26, 2012 at 17:00 UTC - Google Code-in 2012 contest opens for students. <http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInformation2012> Some Basics: The new contest structure should make many things easier for your orgs (we hope!). We have listened to your suggestions and have made the following changes: - Org admins can upload tasks throughout the contest. - We have eliminated all translation tasks. - No easy, medium or hard task classifications - Each org had different parameters for ranking something as easy/medium/hard so we have eliminated the classifications entirely and have asked that orgs base their tasks on things they think would take the average contributor about 2 hours to complete. - There will be 10 mentoring organizations this year (compared to 18 last year). - Each Org will name 2 Grand Prize Winners for a total of 20 Grand Prize winners. You can view more details on these changes on our Wiki page [2]. FAQ’s for Mentoring Orgs: 1) How do we become a mentoring org for GCI 2012? Organizations that have participated in any Google Summer of Code will be able to apply to be a mentoring organization for Google Code-in 2012. The Application will open up to organizations on Monday, October 22nd at 9am PST (16:00 UTC) and will close on Monday, November 5th at 3:00pm PST (23:00 UTC). We will send an email to this list on Monday, October 22nd with the direct link for org admins to apply for Google Code-in 2012 on the Melange program site. 2) We are used to working with the university students for Google Summer of Code, what should we expect working with 13-17 year olds? We won’t kid you, working with teengers can be demanding. It’s important that your mentors/org be prepared to put the time in over the holidays (including on weekends, etc.) to respond to questions and evaluate the student’s tasks. If you do participate you will all have the satisfaction of sharing your project and your passion for open source with a truly inspiring group of young people, and getting them started in our community. 3) How do we know if we would be a good fit with the younger developers? Think about the types of tasks you have that you would want students to work on. When filling out your application you will need to link to your task list of at least 5 tasks for each of the 5 categories (Coding, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance and User Interface). Your Proposed Tasks list is *very* important in helping us determine which organizations we choose to be mentoring orgs for Google Code-in 2012. It is okay if your tasks lean more toward coding or documentation/training or user interface, etc. but think about the types of tasks that you would like the students to work on and remember while some of these students have been coding since they were 5 others are new to coding or may have never attempted coding before so having other types of tasks available to them is necessary. The goal of Google Code-in is to introduce students to the world of open source and to show them there are many ways to contribute to open source projects. 4) What should we consider when applying to be a GCI org -- ie. what type of time commitments are required to participate? Reach out early and get a commitment from a primary org admin and at least one backup org admin and then multiple mentors as each task will be assigned a mentor in case the student has questions and ultimately to review the task to decide if it has been successfully completed. The contest starts November 26, 2012 and will end on January 14, 2013. This time frame will cover many national and religious holidays so you will want to assign people to cover the days of major holidays. If a mentor is assigned to a task and is on vacation/away from their computer for an extended period of time (more than 36 hours) then there needs to be another mentor covering those tasks so when a student submits a task they won’t have to wait a week until their mentor gets back to claim another task. Students can only claim one task at a time so in the past they have gotten very antsy when they haven’t heard back from their mentor within a reasonable amount of time. Google Code-in session at GSoC Mentor Summit There will be a Google Code-in session at the GSoC Mentor Summit this weekend. The session will be a good opportunity to ask questions of other mentors and the Google Code-in administrators. We will send out an email to this list next Monday (October 22nd) when we open the program site for applications. We hope your org will apply to be a part of Google Code-in 2012. [0] http://www.google-melange.com/ [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/events/google/gci2012 [2] http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInformation2012 Best, Stephanie Taylor* Stephanie Taylor | Open Source Programs, Google | [email protected] | 650-214-1656 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Summer of Code Mentors List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list?hl=en. ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
