freebsd stable - Oct 2012 - FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

(cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@)

Hello,

Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest for
youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range:

	http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012

It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to that
(Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this year as
well.

For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100.

I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please submit
your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here:

	http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1

Examples of previously completed tasks:

	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks

Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and submit
straight to Wiki:

	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks

I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this project.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek at FreeBSD.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek
wrote:
> (cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest for
> youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range:
> 
> 	http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012
> 
> It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to that
> (Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this year
as
> well.
> 
> For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100.
> 
> I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please submit
> your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here:
> 
> 	http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1
> 
> Examples of previously completed tasks:
> 
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks
> 
> Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and submit
> straight to Wiki:
> 
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks
> 
> I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this project.
> 
> Help will be appreciated.
Hi,

(cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@)

I made a mistake -- the web form didn't have "Contributor's
name", thus I
don't know who of you guys contributed first 9 ideas; e-mail me which ideas
are yours, so that your name can be mentioned on Wiki:

	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks

I made slight adjustments to the form to make some fields more precise:

	http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1

Sorry and thanks,

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek at FreeBSD.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek
wrote:
> (cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest for
> youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range:
> 
> 	http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012
> 
> It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to that
> (Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this year
as
> well.
> 
> For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100.
> 
> I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please submit
> your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here:
> 
> 	http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1
> 
> Examples of previously completed tasks:
> 
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks
> 
> Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and submit
> straight to Wiki:
> 
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks
> 
> I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this project.
> 
> Help will be appreciated.
> 
Update:

It looks pretty bad so far. Page:

	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks

Has 38 tasks so far out of which:

	~30 would qualify.

Consider this e-mail to be the last call for action. Otherwise we'll have to
pull back and concentrate our efforts on GSOC instead.

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek at FreeBSD.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/

That wiki site has a distinct lack of help about:

* what is required from us;
* what the target is (kids, right?)
* some examples of good and bad projects.

Right now I have absolutely no idea what would constitute a good or
bad coding project. :/



adrian

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:46:21AM -0700, Adrian Chadd
wrote:
> That wiki site has a distinct lack of help about:
> 
> * what is required from us;
> * what the target is (kids, right?)
> * some examples of good and bad projects.
> 
> Right now I have absolutely no idea what would constitute a good or
> bad coding project. :/
> 
I updated the Wiki with "Sample ideas" section:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek at FreeBSD.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/

Right, lots of PHP coding. Attractive to a student.




Adrian

Dnia 23-10-2012 o 14:05:43 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
napisa?(a):
> Right, lots of PHP coding. Attractive to a student.
>
Nobody prevents students from serving FreeBSD by writing stuff in attractive,
well documented (books, translations) technologies. We just need to craft a task
list around things which people consider attractive.

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek at freebsd.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek
wrote:
> (cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest for
> youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range:
> 
> 	http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012
> 
> It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to that
> (Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this year
as
> well.
> 
> For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100.
> 
> I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please submit
> your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here:
> 
> 	http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1
> 
> Examples of previously completed tasks:
> 
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks
> 
> Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and submit
> straight to Wiki:
> 
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks
> 
> I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this project.
> 
> Help will be appreciated.
Hello,

This is last call for action. 

As for now, we won't qualify. I suggest doc@ and ports@ and www@ and src@
teams to try to come up with some ideas and add them to Wiki. Most of the
ideas which we have so far are more GSOC-alike.

Unless we have at least 80 tasks of the "easy"/"medium"
type, we'll have to
postpone participating in Code-In for next year.

Thanks,

-- 
Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek at FreeBSD.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/