gci

Google's Code-In in progress

News posted on Mon, 2014-12-01 07:15

The Haiku project was once again chosen as a mentor organization for this year's Google Code-In. The little brother of the Summer of Code is targeting younger students - 13 to 17 years old - and consists of many small tasks that are suitable for that age group. Under the lead of Scott McCreary, over a dozen Haiku mentors have entered roughly 400 tasks into Haiku's GCI page, mostly about creating or fixing haikuporter recipes to package applications and small C++ coding tasks.

Every student that completes at least one task gets a certificate and for at least three tasks additionally a t-shirt. The five best students per organization win a sweatshirt and two of those will be invited to visit the Google headquarters in California in June 2015.

The GCI starts on December 1st and ends on January 19th. In that time many students will probably hit the forums and IRC. Please give them a warm welcome! If you're eligible to participate (or if you know students that might be interested), the Google GCI page has all the info.

Haiku Amongst 10 Open-source Organizations To Participate in Google Code-In 2012

News posted on Sun, 2012-11-25 21:16
, , ,

What is Google Code-in ?

GCI is a contest for pre-university students (from 13 to 17 years old) with the goal to encourage young students to participate into open-source development. To achieve that goal, open-source organizations sets up various tasks and students are invited to claim them. Various prizes are awarded and, this year, each organizations are going to award two (2) grand prize winners amongst participating students.

When does the contest start ?

Students can starts claiming tasks on Monday, November 26 2012 at 9:00 AM PST / 17:00 UTC, to end on Monday, January 13th at 9:00 AM PST / 17:00 UTC.

What kind of tasks are available ?

A Task is a small amount of work, suitable for a 13 to 17 years old student, and should take approximately 2 hours to complete to the average participant. There are 5 categories of tasks :

  1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
  2. Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
  3. Outreach/Research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
  4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
  5. User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

Where do I sign-up ?

For more details about the program itself, and to register, please consult the contest's homepage :
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012

Syndicate content