On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Google has announced again that they are running Google Code In, and > has invited mentoring organizations to participate. For those of you > who did not help out last year, Google Code In is a contest run by > Google in the (northern hemisphere) winter months for 13-17 year-olds. > Several organizations create tasks suitable for such an audience, and > the mid- to high-school students compete to see who can complete the > most tasks. Unlike GSoC, there is no pairing of mentors to students; > rather, there is a group of mentors for each org who can accept > students' work, and assist them. > > Last year, we participated, and it was pretty successful. Aside from > tons of bug and documentation fixes in the main SymPy code base, the > contest lead to many improvements to SymPy Live, including the current > design, the mobile version, tab completion, and the history.
I will be able to help later on, in December for a while. I am finishing my PhD and defending on November 8, so I won't have any time before then. If you think that we can pull it off, then we should do it, I think it really helped SymPy, both in terms of publicity, code as well as new contributors. I think we just need enough mentors to help out --- the tasks are really small, but there are a lot of them. Ondrej -- 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.
