[Soc-coordination] Mentoring Organization opportunity for Google Code-in

[Obey Arthur Liu]

Hi all,

[I'm making a new thread instead of forward posting from
google-summer-of-code-mentors-list at googlegroups.com]

"Google Code-in, Google's contest to introduce pre-university students
to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software
development possible, is starting on November 22, 2010."

Rudy, are you still interested in this?
I could be tempted into doing it, but I fear that Debian is not
particularly adapted to that structure of the contest.
We could take RC bugs as individual task but right now, in the middle
of a freeze, RC bugs are really not trivial anymore.
There are also opportunities in translation (bubulle?) that might be
of interest and some other things (full list below).
What I am not sure of is whether we'll be able to come up with a huge
list of tasks considering the trouble we have each year to come up
with GSoC ideas, but I'm willing to try.

Cheers
Arthur

Full list of task areas:
1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
2. Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents
3. Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing
4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of
high quality
5. Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions
6. Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more
7. Translation: Tasks related to localization
8. User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user
interface design and interaction

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Carol Smith <carols at google.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Subject: Invitation: Apply to be a Mentoring Organization for GCI
To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List
<google-summer-of-code-mentors-list at googlegroups.com>


Hi everyone,

Starting today we are accepting applications from organizations who
have participated in a previous Google Summer of Code (you!) to get
involved with our contest for 13-18 year olds, Google Code-in [0].

If you haven’t read up about Google Code-in, you can check out our
announcement [1] to this list from a couple weeks ago or read our blog
post [2] about the contest.

If your org has decided it would like to apply to participate in the
contest, you can fill out the application [3] on Melange now. The
deadline for applications is 29 October at 23:00 UTC.
Also, if you want to look over the rules for the contest before
applying to participate they can be found on the organization
application [3] at the bottom. They will also be posted on the Google
Code-in website [0] in the next couple days in other languages.
We hope your org will consider participating.

[0] - http://code.google.com/gci
[1] - http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/msg/0985eedf9e464775
[2] - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/10/google-code-in-schools-out-codes-in.html
[3] - http://socghop.appspot.com/gci/org_app/take/gci_program/google/gci2010/orgapp

Cheers,
Carol