<div><div><div dir="auto">+1, looking forward to it </div></div></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 30 Oct 2019 at 2:14 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">The contest begins
on December 2, 2019, so we have about one month to prepare.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">* The GCI admins are
myself, Lionel, and Ibiam.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">* 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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">* We will be using
#sugar on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> 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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">* 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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">* We maintain a wiki
page for Sugar-Labs-specific GCI information [2].</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">* Further details
about the rules, guidelines for mentorship, etc. can be found on the
GCI website [3]. Mentor-specific guidelines are here:
<a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/responsibilities" target="_blank">https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/responsibilities</a></span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">* 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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">About tasks:</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">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:</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Code: Tasks related
to writing or refactoring code</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">Documentation/Training:
Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn
more</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">Outreach/Research:
Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or
studying problems and recommending solutions</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">Quality Assurance:
Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">Design: Tasks
related to user experience research or user interface design and
interaction</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">More details on what
these categories mean is available on the GCI website.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Suggests for tasks
can come from any mentor or community member but the approval of tasks is done
only by an administrator.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">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].</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent">Finally, as I said
at the start, GCI is fun. Enjoy.</span><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">regards.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">-walter</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">----</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">[0]
<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/sugar-devel" target="_blank">lists.sugarlabs.org/sugar-devel</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">[1]
<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019#Getting_set_up_on_IRC" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019#Getting_set_up_on_IRC</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">[2]
<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">[3]
<a href="https://codein.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">https://codein.withgoogle.com/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">[4]
<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019#This_is_a_stub_for_25.2B_example_tasks_new_for_GCI_2019" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Google_Code_In_2019#This_is_a_stub_for_25.2B_example_tasks_new_for_GCI_2019</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">[5]
<a href="https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/" target="_blank">https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%;background:transparent">[6]
<a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md</a></p></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div></div>
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