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Hi all, |
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Based on our participation in the Summer of Code, Google invited us to |
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apply for their revived program for 13-18 year olds called Google |
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Code-In [1-2]. The basic idea is that students will complete a series of |
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small tasks rather than one huge project, and the tasks don't even have |
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to be related (or even involve programming!). |
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One really neat feature about GCI is that projects can be anything -- |
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documentation, translation, coding, research, whatever. If you've been |
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feeling that your ideas are left out by GSoC, this is your chance. |
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After talking with a few devs, there seemed to be a lot of interest in |
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us getting involved. The application deadline is very soon -- this |
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Friday! We need a good ideas list by then if we're going to apply. I |
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created a draft ideas page [3]; please fill it in by the end of the day |
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on this Thursday. |
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We're looking for tasks that would take a student 13-18 years old |
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roughly 1-3 days to complete. Ideas might include writing man pages, |
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translating a few webpages, perhaps some relatively straightforward |
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bugfixes, etc. More general ideas are on our ideas page and the GCI |
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homepage. Because tasks are so short, mentoring will not be a major |
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burden, so don't let that hold you back. |
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I look forward to seeing all your cool ideas! |
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1. http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html |
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2. http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/faqs.html |
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3. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Google_Code_In_2010_ideas |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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