[Fwd: Google Code-In: Do we want to partcipate?]

[Alan Coopersmith]

At today's Board meeting we agreed this seems like a good thing to do, and
Donnie agreed to submit the X.Org application to participate, with everyone
else helping out to mentor students as needed.

I've created a page in the wiki to start brainstorming task ideas, since the
Summer of Code ideas are for much bigger projects than can fit in the time
allowed for this program - please add your own ideas to it:

	http://www.x.org/wiki/GoogleCodeInIdeas

Even though the program name says "code", code is just one of the 8 areas for
tasks - google's list includes:

   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

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> I probably should have cc'ed devel as well, since if we were to do this
> we'd need developers to help think up tasks, mentor participants and
> review their submissions.
> 
> 	-alan-
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Google Code-In: Do we want to partcipate?
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:35:44 -0700
> From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> To: X.Org Foundation Board <board at foundation.x.org>,  Stephane Marchesin
> <marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr>
> CC: Xorg Members List <members at x.org>
> 
> A question I plan to ask at tomorrow's board meeting, but which people
> probably want to read about before answering:
> 
> 	Do we want to participate in the Google Code-In?
> 
> This is Google's "Winter Break" program for 13-18 year old pre-college students,
> and is geared towards much shorter projects than the summer of code program.
> 
> Details are posted at:
> 
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/10/google-code-in-schools-out-codes-in.html
> http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/faqs.html
> http://code.google.com/gci
> 
> If we want to partcipate, we need to apply by the end of this week.
> (We've already met the first requirement - being a successful mentoring
>  organization in a previous Summer of Code program.)
> 
> We'll also need some short tasks - coding, documentation, etc. - which are
> within the skill range and time available for the expected participants, and
> which don't require already knowing the X Window System in great depth.
> (Participants should be able to perform multiple tasks between Nov. 22 &
>  Jan. 10.)
> 
> Like the Summer of Code, I would expect the X.Org organizational entry to
> cover projects across our entire set of interrelated communities - the modules
> hosted by X.Org as well as DRI, Mesa, XCB, etc.
>