GSoC & SoK students: next steps

[Aman Kumar Gupta]

Hi,

Is KDE participating in Google Code-in this year?
If yes, is it good time to start creating tasks (the org application period
starts just 5 days from now)?

Thanks,
Aman



On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:55 PM Aman Kumar Gupta <gupta2140 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is great. Well I can't speak for others, but I'm indeed planning to
> stay with KDE for a long time :)
>
> Regarding next Season of KDE, on behalf of all the SoK 2018 students, can
> you please look into/ping the concerned people about the shipment of our
> SoK 2018 certificate and goodies and update us?
> It's been almost half a year since SoK 2018 ended, and we all are still
> eagerly waiting for the fruits of our hard works, a certificate, t-shirt
> and goodies ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Aman
>
>
> On Tue 28 Aug, 2018, 12:27 PM Valorie Zimmerman, <
> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I hope each of you know that the KDE community wants you to stay! Not
>> only do we want you to support your code, but we want YOU. We need your
>> energy, creativity and skill to take KDE into the future.
>>
>> Coming up next is a new round of Season of KDE, although we don't have
>> firm plans for that yet. Some of you may want to participate as mentees or
>> mentors.
>>
>> We've not yet heard whether Google Code-in will be held this year or the
>> dates, but we're confident that it will happen sometime November through
>> January of next year.
>>
>> We would like each of you to be a mentor for the 13 to 18-year-old kids.
>> If you've not participated in GCi before, here is the "How it works" from
>> the 2017 website:
>> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/how-it-works
>>
>> If you are interested, please start jotting down ideas for tasks that
>> would take kids a day or two to finish. These can be coding,
>> documentation/training, outreach/research, quality assurance, user
>> interface, Translation tasks are not allowed. If we want to apply (probably
>> in late September or early October) we will need a large number of tasks
>> already complete. Please look at some of the sample tasks on the 2017
>> website for guidance.
>>
>> Be aware that this contest can run fast and furious. On the other hand,
>> if we have lots of mentors, we can share the work.
>>
>> I hope each of you will jump into this now! Get some young minions to
>> tidy up your code, present your project to others, create some promo
>> material, and more!
>>
>> Valorie
>>
>> --
>> http://about.me/valoriez
>>
>>
>>
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