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On Thu 24 Oct 2013 03:56:21 PM PDT, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:<br>
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Hi all!<br>
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For those who don't know what it is<br>
<a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/<u></u>gci/homepage/google/gci2013</a><br>
is a Google program designed to approach children 13-17 to open source<br>
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We had yet participated on 2010 if I recall right.<br>
Is there interest in participating this year?<br>
If so, who are available to mentor/admin?<br>
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I can fill the application to participate if needed, but I think i will<br>
not have time to mentor.<br>
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Basically we need to provide some 20 small tasks just for the<br>
application, that should increase later up to 150-300 for the program if<br>
we get selected.<br>
We need too a backup admin and a list of mentors.<br>
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There are just few days left, so if there is any interest, please speak<br>
quick.<br>
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Thanks<br>
Pere<br>
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Note that if we don't get selected or if we decide to not apply, there<br>
may still be some chances to put some tasks into GCI via other selected<br>
orgs, (I meet a very nice guy from SugarLabs at GSOC mentor summit)<br>
<br><br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><br class="">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Brendan Luchen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cheezmeister@gmail.com" target="_blank">cheezmeister@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>We should definitely have another available mentor or two before committing to GCI, though.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On average for GCI 2012 students completed about 200 tasks per org over the 7 weeks of the contest. Tasks should be sized to take a student about 2-4 hours to complete. If you make them smaller than that you'll see need way more than 200 tasks. So with those TODO fixes you might group them into 3 or 4 small fixes per task or 1 or 2 if they are tougher ones. My 2013 GSoC student left a TODO list for Tux Coding that can probably be turned into tasks: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/adeneche/tuxcoding/wiki/Home">https://bitbucket.org/adeneche/tuxcoding/wiki/Home</a></div>
<div>Be sure to ask the former GSoC students if they'd be interested in being GCI mentors. I won't have time as I'll probably have my hands full with another org. Brendan, you'll need to fill out the mentor app and then let Pere know your ID on there as it'll be needed when he gets to the question requiring the ID of a co-admin. Good luck. Be sure to get a list of ideas published ASAP with at least 5 in each category as that's one of the key things Google will be evaluating when selecting orgs. They announce on Nov 1st, but will need a few days to review the lists, so the sooner it gets published the better, each if it's a work in progress.</div>
<div>-scottmc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>