Fwd: Google Code-in tasks needed

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Tuesday 06 November 2012 07:51:02 Sascha Manns wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> Thomas Pfeiffer wrote at Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012, 13:13:21:
> > Google Code-In is on the horizon again (see forwarded mail)!
> > We had some tasks in last year's program, and for a teenager program, we
> > got some pretty interesting results!
> > Does anyone have any ideas for tasks? The tasks can be of the type
> > - code
> > - doc
> > - research
> > - QA
> > - user interface
> > 
> > They should be really small ("a task should take a normal KDE contributor
> > about 2 hours"), but larger tasks can be split into several smaller ones
> > which are likely to be taken by the same person anyway, so this should not
> > be the problem.
> > 
> > I think especially the non-coding categories can be interesting for us,
> > since we don't have much personnel for that. E.g. QA would be very helpful
> > (we can e.g. have participants spend a day putting a certain application
> > through its paces), documentation could be helpful as well (maybe Sascha
> > could mentor some tasks for an English version of the handbook?). I may
> > put
> > in some research tasks for small user tests.
> > 
> > Anyone willing to create and mentor a task for Code-In? It's a few days of
> > relatively intensive mentoring for each task.
> 
> I've added the Handbook to the Ideas-Page as proposed. I'll checkin the
> english stuff this week. So the guys can start proofrading :-) So a english
> version of the book comes on the horizon too.

Awesome! I guess proofreading and maybe a little editing is great task and 
it's helpful to us especially if native Englisch speakers claim the tasks.