[Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] GCI'18 Report

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:21 PM Alex Perez <aperez at alexperez.com> wrote:

> Yes, thank you sincerely for this report...my thoughts/responses are
> inline...
>
> Chihurumnaya Ibiam wrote on 1/31/19 6:38 AM:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> This is a report about last year's GCI.
>
> 674 students participated. Of those, 245 completed at least one task.
>
> This works out to just over 36% of the "participants" actually
> participating in a substantive way.
>
> The most popular task completed by students was our beginner task: "Make a
> Pull Request", which was completed by 100 students.
>
> Or, approximately 15% of 674.
>
> 60 students completed the "Install the Sugar Environment" task.
>
> Under 9%
>
>
> • 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,
>
> Is there a list of the Pull Requests listed below? I'd like to personally
> examine how many of them are substantive.
>
>
> Sugar/Activities = 20
> Sugarizer = 20
> MusicBlocks = 38
>
> Here is a sampling from just one of the GCI students... judge for yourself:

https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/commits?author=aust-n

> TurtleBlocks = 2
> Sugar Social = 6
> Sugar Website = 5
>
>
> 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.
>
> What would be the ideal way to improve this, from your perspective?
>
> 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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