[kde-community] Let's get ready to mentor the next bunch of Google Code-in students

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> Heya folks :)
>
> Google Code-in is a great opportunity to attract new bright young
> minds to KDE. We've taken part in the contest 3 times already and I
> just filled out our application for the 4th one. (If you have no idea
> what I am talking about have a look at
> https://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 for more
> information.)
>
> Within the next 2 weeks we need to collect tasks for the 13 to 18 year
> olds to work on during Code-in. These tasks are the most important
> part of our application. Please help find exciting and useful tasks
> and submit them via this form:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17C81ExuBcgU5_Wkj1Zt035vCxbquhS61Lzob2oX4R8U/viewform
>
> You can see all tasks already submitted here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Al1cWa29jR2idGE5VGI2Uno5TEJrelFURHZVd2NvNkE&output=html
>
> And for some inspiration here are the tasks we offered last year:
> http://community.kde.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012/Ideas
>
> It would be amazing to see especially previous Code-in and GSoC
> students offer tasks here and mentor the next bunch :)  To see what
> kind of an impact this program can have check out
> http://dot.kde.org/2013/07/15/akademy-2013-day-two

Wohooooo! Our work paid off. We've been accepted again for Google Code-in \o/
More details in the next days. The students will start working on
tasks in 16 days. Please continue adding tasks at the above link if
you have more.


Cheers
Lydia

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