Hi. Google has invited us to participate in Google Code-In [0], which is a contest that runs from November 21 to January 16 for pre-university students aged 13-17. I think we should participate, but only if enough people are willing to help. This is a lot different from Google Summer of Code. For this program, we would have to create several "tasks", which are then completed by the students. The tasks should be relatively small, independent activities. This can include things like fixing documentation and writing tests, or just fixing some issue in the issue tracker. See [1] for more information.
Since this is a contest to complete the most tasks, we need to have a high turnaround rate on the review of the tasks. According to [1], the rate should be no more than 36 hours per task. This means that if we participate, we will have to have enough people wiling to help review pull requests so that we can achieve this over the entire coding period. There is no specific person-to-person mentoring like with GSoC. Rather, we as a community pass or fail each task. Also, we would need to come up with a list of tasks, but this would not be too hard. We would just create a label in the issue tracker, and mark any good issues with that label, and also create new issues for other ideas. Finally, I want to remind that these are younger students than were in GSoC. They will need more hand holding, and the quality of their work will be much less (and sometimes, it will have to be rejected outright, but remember that unlike GSoC, this is a contest). So would enough people be willing to help out with this? GSoC students, this is a good chance to take your knowledge of SymPy and apply it to others. I recommend everyone read through [1] to get a better idea about this program. If you can or can't contribute, it would be great if you could let me know soon, as the deadline to apply is November 1. Especially for the core developers, if you think you won't have time to help out much, if you could let me know, that would be great, so I could judge our potential manpower. Aaron Meurer [0] - http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2011 [1] - http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIAdminMentorInformation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
