[Sugar-devel] GCI background

[Rishabh Thaney]

+1, looking forward to it

On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 2:14 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As I mentioned in my earlier email, Sugar Labs has been selected to
> participate in Google Code-in (GCI) 2019. It is a really fun program and
> represents a great opportunity for the community to reach out to new
> contributors.
>
> The contest begins on December 2, 2019, so we have about one month to
> prepare.
>
> For those of you who are volunteering to be a mentors, I will be sending
> out invitations to formally sign up as mentors over the next few days, so
> keep an eye out for the invitation. Meanwhile, I wanted to share some
> general information with you and the Sugar Labs community.
>
> * The GCI admins are myself, Lionel, and Ibiam.
>
> * We will be using the sugar-devel mailing list [0] for all of our general
> GCI correspondence. This ensures that any discussions are public and that
> the entire community can participate. By “general”, I mean discussions
> about process, time lines, etc.
>
> * We will be using #sugar on irc.freenode.net as our help line for the
> GCI students. It is important that we keep as close to 24/7 coverage as
> possible, as we anticipate participation from students from almost every
> timezone. If you do not have an IRC account, please see [1] for details.
>
> * The GCI website maintains a mechanism for corresponding with the
> students regarding individual tasks. That thread is only accessible to
> students and mentors. It is meant for private feedback to the student.
>
> * We maintain a wiki page for Sugar-Labs-specific GCI information [2].
>
> * Further details about the rules, guidelines for mentorship, etc. can be
> found on the GCI website [3]. Mentor-specific guidelines are here:
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/responsibilities
>
> * It is important to remember that we are working with youths, ages 13-17,
> many of whom are participating in order to learn. So please be appropriate
> in your language and please be patient. Also, we need to be protective of
> their privacy, so do not share or solicit any personal information.
>
> About tasks:
>
> At the heart of GCI are the tasks. These are bite size (and not so bite
> size) challenges for the students. Each task can take from 3-7 days and
> they can span a variety of areas:
>
> Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
>
> Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and
> helping others learn more
>
> Outreach/Research: Tasks related to community management,
> outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
>
> Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high
> quality
>
> Design: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design
> and interaction
>
> More details on what these categories mean is available on the GCI website.
>
> It is our responsibility as a participating organization to come up with
> the task list. We need to have around 100 tasks defined before the content
> begins and will need at least 300 to keep pace as the contest progresses.
> Open issues generally make good tasks. More suggestions can be found in the
> wiki [4]. (Music Blocks alone we have more than 200, so I don’t anticipate
> running short.) Mentors can enter task suggestions directly into the GCI
> system [5]. For everyone else, feel free to share on the sugar-devel list.
>
> Suggests for tasks can come from any mentor or community member but the
> approval of tasks is done only by an administrator.
>
> All tasks should be written with the same clarity one would expect in a
> ticket: a detailed description of the challenge and suggestions as to
> resources that might be of use. You can include links in a task
> description, to an issue, for example, but the task description should be
> largely self-explanatory.
>
> We adhere to the same standards and processes of contributions for GCI
> tasks as any other contribution, so please familiarize yourself with the
> Contributor’s Guide [6].
>
> Before the contest begins, I will send out more details about reviewing
> and approving student work. It is imperative that we maintain consistent
> and high standards for all submissions.
>
> Finally, as I said at the start, GCI is fun. Enjoy.
>
> regards.
>
>
> -walter
>
> ----
>
>
> [0] lists.sugarlabs.org/sugar-devel
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019#Getting_set_up_on_IRC
>
> [2] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019
>
> [3] https://codein.withgoogle.com/
>
> [4]
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019#This_is_a_stub_for_25.2B_example_tasks_new_for_GCI_2019
> .
>
> [5] https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/
>
> [6]
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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Thanks & best regards
Rishabh Thaney
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rishabhthaney at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhthaney/
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