[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Need tux4kids mentors for Google Code-In

[David Bruce]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:48 PM, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone interested in mentoring?  So far we just have Siddharth and me as
> admins/mentors.  I think we need at least a couple more folks to step
> forward if we want to do this.  Google has revamped the contest and seems to
> be tightening the overall process.  I doubt they will accept us with only
> two mentors, and we need to get a really good tasks page together with five
> tasks in each of the eight categories.  I will try to work on it early
> tomorrow AM.


The organization application for Tux4Kids is at:

http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/application/google/gci2011/7096202?validated#

For the task list, I've created a wiki at:

http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in-2011-tux4kids/wiki/Tux4KidsTasksGCI2011?ts=1319844175&updated=Tux4KidsTasksGCI2011

We mainly need to get the task list populated with "at least five
tasks in each of the eight categories, sorted by difficulty".  Please
try to go to the wiki page and see if you can view it and/or edit it.
I'm not sure how the permissions are set up by default at the google
code site.

I'll be working on getting the task list filled in during the day
today and tonight as time allows.

Also, it will strengthen the application a lot if several more mentors
step forward.  I'm expecting to do a major chunk of the mentoring
myself, but I'd like to be able to say we have several people.  A lot
of the expected tasks this year seem to be geared at big projects like
Gnome and KDE (5 research projects? 5 studies of user interface
design?), and such projects clearly have much greater resources.  It
won't shock me if we don't get chosen.  Nonetheless, GCI seemed to
work out great for us last year, and I'd like to give it another shot.


David Bruce

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