Hello, I'm planning to participate in the GCI2012 contest and i have an idea about a task . My idea is about the planet.sympy.org, to be more clear, the task will be about improving the theme of the page to make it looks like other sympy's domains(pages).
On 26/09/2012, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Vladimir Perić <vlada.pe...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I'm up for helping. I think the rule changes, especially not getting >> paid for each single task, will mean much less work for mentors (in >> the sense that there will be a lot more repeat students so we won't >> need to go through Git basics quite so many times). > > Absolutely. I think it will mean far fewer students in general, > because quite a few of the students just did it for the money (and in > general, these were among the least pleasant students to work with). > > Also, the rules encourage students to pick an organization and stick > with it, so hopefully we will get much more of a community out of GCI > students. We can even make it clear that a factor in our choosing the > winners from the top five contributors will be in how much/well they > interacted with the community in general. > >> >> Like last year, I think we will have a lot of luck if we focus our >> tasks on a) examples and other documentation (it's easy enough, can >> even be fun for the student, and is a real help to the project); and >> b) things outside the competencies of the core developers (eg. >> anything web related, you said it yourself that SymPy Live and Gamma >> improved a lot). We can't really expect a random high school student >> to dive into quantum mechanics or whatever. > > Yes. The best contributions from last year were: > > - SymPy Live > - Documentation and the webpage, especially really easy documentation > stuff like just adding functions to Sphinx > - Simple bug fixes > > I was impressed at how many high school students were fluent in > Javascript and CSS/web design. > > We can also add tasks for: > > - Cleaning up various parts of the wiki > - SymPy Bot (I tagged a bunch of issues last year, but forgot to add > them to Melange) > - SymPy Gamma > > Aaron Meurer > >> >> >> -- >> Vladimir Perić >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > > -- Greeting! Kendhia :) -- 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.
