Hi,
At the GSoC Mentor Summit last weekend I gathered some information on what's required for Code-In* and also talked with Mario Behling and Hong Phuc Dang from FOSSASIA. As we would need a lot of tasks and a lot of mentors to participate as our own organization/project it seems much easier to join FOSSASIA with a view tasks and a some mentors covering the most important time zones. And yes, they invited us to join them for Code-In. I think this is a great chance for dipping a toe in the water and gather experience for upcoming Code-Ins. This year it runs from December 7th to January (I think 7-8 weeks).
If there are no objections I think we should take that chance. We then would need some Mentors in Asian time zones, too. For now it looks like Stefan D., Austin E. and I would volunteer. (One in USA, two in Europe)
*Code-In ( https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ ) is a project similar to Summer of Code, but for pre-university students ages 13 to 17. They get tasks they can claim and can then submit them or abandon them. This can be done for multiple orgs, but if a student decides to accomplish a lot of tasks for one org, the org can nominate it as a grand price winner. A grand price winner then travels with parents and one mentor of that org to Google. Possible task categories are: Coding Documentation / Training Outreach / Research Quality Assurance User Interface (translation tasks are not allowed)
To sign up as a FOSSASIA Mentor use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kDEZNyGGEblrLgZ2QyZcfcBjG0I9zXbk6NamjsE1O9Q...
Hello André and Wine project team,
FOSSASIA has been selected as a Google Code In mentoring organisation. I am happy to welcome you on board.
FOSSASIA is taking a role of an umbrella organisation. Many projects have been working together with us, and we had a very successful Code-In program last year. Hope we can work together to involve more and more kids/students to the open source communities.
I have added André into the official contest site. Please sign up as FOSSASIA mentors if you wish to join us:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kDEZNyGGEblrLgZ2QyZcfcBjG0I9zXbk6NamjsE1O9Q...
All the best,
Hongphuc
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:26 AM, André Hentschel nerv@dawncrow.de wrote:
Hi,
At the GSoC Mentor Summit last weekend I gathered some information on what's required for Code-In* and also talked with Mario Behling and Hong Phuc Dang from FOSSASIA. As we would need a lot of tasks and a lot of mentors to participate as our own organization/project it seems much easier to join FOSSASIA with a view tasks and a some mentors covering the most important time zones. And yes, they invited us to join them for Code-In. I think this is a great chance for dipping a toe in the water and gather experience for upcoming Code-Ins. This year it runs from December 7th to January (I think 7-8 weeks).
If there are no objections I think we should take that chance. We then would need some Mentors in Asian time zones, too. For now it looks like Stefan D., Austin E. and I would volunteer. (One in USA, two in Europe)
*Code-In ( https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ ) is a project similar to Summer of Code, but for pre-university students ages 13 to 17. They get tasks they can claim and can then submit them or abandon them. This can be done for multiple orgs, but if a student decides to accomplish a lot of tasks for one org, the org can nominate it as a grand price winner. A grand price winner then travels with parents and one mentor of that org to Google. Possible task categories are: Coding Documentation / Training Outreach / Research Quality Assurance User Interface (translation tasks are not allowed)
To sign up as a FOSSASIA Mentor use this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kDEZNyGGEblrLgZ2QyZcfcBjG0I9zXbk6NamjsE1O9Q...
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André Hentschel -
Hong Phuc Dang