Hi, On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:06 AM, scl <scl.gplus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > beside the 'Summer of Code' program for students Google > offers 'Code-In', a program for pre-university students, > ages 13-17 years old. The program can be found at > http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 > > Tasks for these students include coding, documentation, > training, community management, outreach/marketing, problem solving, > quality assurance and user interface tasks. > I could i.e. imagine tasks in the fields of GEGL porting, testing, > documenting, translation, website maintenance, bug triaging etc. I had a look. I did not read all, but this looks interesting. Maybe even more than the normal gsoc on another level, because it may be more manageable than huge 3-month projects that may end up or not merged in after years. If I got the concept, these younger students would make much smaller projects, and could do many of them on various projects. Like few-day-length projects. So that's a faster pace for mentors, but in the same time, if code for instance, that will be very small patches. So we check the few line changes, and if good, we approve the student work and can push the code to master without waiting for 3 years. For code tasks for instance, I would not see GEGL porting, because that involves quite an involvement for the student to comprehend all the concepts. But I could see GNOME-LOVE bugs/features or other easy tasks in GIMP, GEGL, babl or even GTK+ when they have direct visible impact in GIMP. Test case writing could be nice too. Extensive testing, bug reporting would be good. And obviously documentation! I'm sure Patdavid would not be against students re-writing some of the tutorial with new screenshots. And we could use updating of gimp-help too. > Do we want to join this program this year? Anyway all this to say, why not? I would be glad to mentor too. :-) Jehan > Kind regards, > > Sven > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
