[Sugar-devel] GCI'18 Report

[Sumit Srivastava]

Interesting report, thanks for making it available!

Thank you to all the mentors who made this possible.

Regards
Sumit Srivastava

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm Walter Bender, <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for pulling together this report.
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 9:38 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <
> ibiamchihurumnaya at sugarlabs.org wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> This is a report about last year's GCI.
>>
>> 674 students participated. Of those, 245 completed at least one task.
>> The most popular task completed by students was our beginner task: "Make
>> a Pull Request", which was completed by 100 students. 60 students completed
>> the "Install the Sugar Environment" task.
>>
>> • Briefly what was merged; that is, the work that has become part of
>>   the Sugar Labs software.
>>
>> We have about 91 PRs that were merged,
>>
>> Sugar/Activities = 20
>> Sugarizer = 20
>> MusicBlocks = 38
>> TurtleBlocks = 2
>> Sugar Social = 6
>> Sugar Website = 5
>>
>> • Briefly what remains to be merged; work of value that we should
>>   focus on completing ourselves.
>>
>> These are the open PRs from gci students
>> https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/task-instances/5046504289992704/
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/pull/1626
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/401
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/cookie-search-activity/pull/17
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/Bounce/pull/13
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/gmail-activity/pull/28
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/block-party-activity/pull/7
>> https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pull/103
>>
>> There are 12 PRs that were not merged in Music Blocks, a handful of which
>> are still under review.
>>
>> • Briefly what won't be merged; work that we don't see value in merging.
>>
>> A lot of the design tasks won't be merged but they'll be used for
>> marketing.
>>
>> One of the tasks we had was to gather contributors data from the wiki and
>> translations, they won't be merged but we're making use of the data for our
>> contributors page, and the contributors page still has an open PR
>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/pull/251> being worked on by
>> one of the students, although that wasn't a GCI project but it's
>> something we need to complete.
>>
>> • What funding Google provided,
>> We received $2500 midway through the competition.
>> We also received $2200 earlier this month for the mentor's trip to
>> Silicon valley.
>>
>> • What travel we should expect to fund, e.g. a mentor to a summit,
>> We should expect to fund about $2200 for a mentor.
>>
>> • How our new mentors performed
>> Our new mentors did well as they responded to the students in a timely
>> manner.
>>
>> And sometimes it seemed there were conflicts between the mentors, where
>> one would request something from a student and another would request
>> something else thereby confusing the student about what to do.
>> This is legitimate and why Walter asked that only a select group of
>> mentors sign off on tasks to begin with, that request was occasionally
>> ignored. Might be something that Google need to add for next time.
>>
>> When the competition started, some non coding tasks were accepted
>> although they weren't of high quality, but this stopped as we moved further
>> into the competition.
>> Walter and I in our emails added that tasks of low quality shouldn't be
>> accepted as a reminder to the mentors.
>>
>> • Your overall impression of this event
>>
>> The event was fun and I enjoyed every bit of it.
>>
>> • How we might improve next year.
>>
>> It may seem like conventional wisdom that some of our mentors lacked
>> knowledge about some tasks or weren't contributors to Sugar Labs but every
>> mentor had previously contributed to Sugar Labs in one way or another.
>>
>> It'll be great if the tasks we want are agreed upon as an org, as this
>> gives a definite direction and narrows down the type of tasks we have.
>>
>> Although it seems as if we got little if any help from the  community in
>> generating task ideas. It was all on the shoulders of just a few of us.
>> That needs to improve. And I think we had too many open-ended design tasks
>> -- we should pare back that somewhat next year, but not eliminate them.
>> (They are required by Google, for one thing.) Maybe structure them such
>> that a student can only do 1 or 2 simple design tasks by marking them as
>> beginner tasks (although I think that was the case for the most part this
>> year too.)
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>> ibiamchihurumnaya at sugarlabs.org <ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com>
>>
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