Google Code-In

Proud to announce that Google Code-In 2014 started about one hour ago. As usual, several tasks were assigned instantly and our #drupal-google IRC channel quickly gained new users. Thanks Google for providing our community new contributors!

Friendly reminder that is is not too late to get involved. Please join us in #drupal-google to provide support and watch out in #drupal-contribute for plenty of young students asking new questions from around the world (please be patient).

It's that wonderful time of the year when Google Code-In students (ages 13-17) work on tasks for Drupal. Starting on Monday December 1st, hundreds of students from around the world will be contributing tasks to open source organizations competing to win an all expense paid trip to visit Google in California. Luckily Drupal was invited back by Google to participate in 2014 and timing could not be better with the beta releases of Drupal 8. Thanks Google!

Are you interested in contributing to Drupal, but don't have the coding skills or experience necessary? Good news, now you have an awesome opportunity to contribute! Drupal is currently in the application process to be a part of the Google Code-In ( http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014 ) contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Our current need is building a list of quality tasks for students to work on during the contest. Please realize these don't have to be code related tasks, but should fit into one of the following five categories: Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, User Interface.

The application process started Tuesday October 28th and ends this Monday November 10th. Our goal is to submit an application with at least 50 quality tasks. Please contribue by adding task ideas directly our open to the public Google Spreadsheet ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sFf5wnuCSkNauNw26-Kml0snplF4Fx0j... ) until midnight UTC-6 Sunday November 9th. After that, we need to see if Drupal is approved for the contest. If approved, we will need help creating, documenting, and mentoring an additional 100-200 tasks. The more tasks we setup the more opportunities we have to contribue to Drupal.

Did you know that organizations accepted into the GCI contest send the top two students on an all expense paid trip to Google in Mountain View with a parent/guardian ( http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci20... )? I know that I would be very excited as a young computer nerd to even have a chance to participate in such a program. As a community, we have a very good chance to make connections with young students who could end up spending a good amount of time focusing on Drupal after completing the contest. A good way to find quality contributors might be Drupal sending a few young people to California/GoogleHQ...

GCI Summary:
"Code-In can be thought of as the "Summer of Code" for pre-university students. Rather than specific coding projects, students age 13-17 take on smaller tasks in five categories: Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, User Interface."

Details @links that explain everything about the contest:

• Official Website @ http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014
• Drupal's group to communicate about Code-In @ https://groups.drupal.org/google-code-in
• Drupal's spreadsheet to add code-in tasks pre-application @ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sFf5wnuCSkNauNw26-Kml0snplF4Fx0j...
• Drupal's issue queue after application @ https://drupal.org/project/issues/gci

Timeline:

• Tue Oct 28 - Application Period Starts
• Mon Nov 10 - Application Period Ends
• Wed Nov 12 - Accepted Organizations Announced
• Mon Dec 01 - Contest Begins
• Wed Jan 21 - Contest Ends
• Mon Jan 26 - Deadline for mentor orgs to submit evaluations

How can I help?:

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Utilize this wiki to organize our application for Google's Code-In 2014 contest. Our plan is to have an initial application draft ready this Friday November 7th. Please edit this wiki and add your feedback. Application URL @ http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/application/google/gci2014

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Organization id: Drupal
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Hi open source enthusiasts,

We’re excited to announce that the fifth edition of the Google Code-in 2014 contest [0] will start December 1st for students and run until January 19th, 2015 [1]. Teenagers from around the world will have the opportunity to work with real open source software projects by working on tasks including coding, documentation, outreach, training and user interface tasks. Over the past four years we have had 1575 students from 78 countries work on tasks for over 30 open source projects.

Attendees:
- penyaskito
- webflo
- derhasi
- drozas
- slashrsm

Notes:
- Mentoring a GSoC project is a huge effort. Having reliable co-mentors helps a lot!

Drupal's Google Code-In contest is now considered an official "Organization" on Drupal.org thanks to a discussion @ https://www.drupal.org/node/2329051 and our organization can be found @ https://www.drupal.org/node/2332543 . Our GCI project contributions need to be proudly listed, but how should we go about this? Any ideas on how to organize all this awesome information at our new organization node?

Our GSoC/GCI BoF at Drupalcon Amsterdam is on the schedule for Wednesday October 1st 2014 at 10:45-11:45 in room:G111 "Adyax".

It's official. Our GSoC/GCI BoF at Drupalcon Austin is on the schedule for Tuesday June 3rd 3:45pm-4:45pm in room 10A "Ashday" on 3rd floor. BoF will take place after the afternoon break. Anyone interested in learning more about Google's Summer of Code and/or Code-In is encouraged to join. Current GSoC students and mentors attending Drupalcon are advised to attend as meeting with our peers in person is invaluable. This BoF will provide us a chance to meet in person to discuss past, present, and future initiatives to ensure Drupal's success in both programs.

We hope to see you there!

To register as a mentor, please sign up on the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sFf5wnuCSkNauNw26-Kml0snplF4Fx0j...

The Google Code-In recently ended and GSoC applications are closed. Now it's time to start preparing for next year's competition. One large problem regarding the contest is that there is not much involvement within development communities, which means many potential students aren't being introduced to the world of open source. This shows that Drupal, as a community, needs to encourage the future generation of programmers to contribute to open source, which this contest does a great job of doing.

How can we find and encourage these interested students?

Reminder to all students AND mentors that GSoC 2014 student applications are due this Friday March 21st at 19:00-UTC. Moving forward all students need to be submitting applications directly into Melange for review. Students need practice submitting proposals into Melange to realize it can be a pain and understand Google will NOT accept ANY late proposals.

Only local images are allowed.

Drupal 8: The Insider's View (from swentel).

Hey guys,

I just discovered couple of interesting resources which will be very helpful to new contributors:

1. http://drupalize.me/community-tools
   NOTE: this is still a work in progress, and updates will be made on a regular basis. You can find this information and materials available on GitHub at https://github.com/DrupalizeMe/community-tools, and we encourage pull requests.
2. A video series teaching all required community tools: http://drupalize.me/guides/drupal-community-tools-and-core-mentoring

I hope you'll find this helpful.

Originally posted in our GSoC group. More info about GCI in a few months...Join us in #drupal-google or the new group if you want to learn more @ https://groups.drupal.org/google-summer-code

Our awesome community recently became a bit more awesome. Drupal was accepted into Google's Summer of Code 2014! Student applications started March 10th and are open until March 21st. It's not too late to become a student, mentor, or submit a project idea. Not available to join the GSoC fun...maybe you can send an email to your alumni university mailing list?

Students will utilize this page to share ideas for 2014 gci task ideas.

Big news! The annual Google Code-In contest kicked off Monday, November 18th. The contest's purpose for pre-university students (ages 13 - 17) is learning how to contribute to open-source software projects and offers them a chance to win a once in a life time grand prize of an all expense paid trip to Google HQ in California. The bigger news...Drupal was chosen as one of the ten participating organizations to create tasks for the students to complete during the 2013 contest! This is a huge honor for Drupal and gives us an amazing opportunity to grow our community.

Drupal's Google Code-in Task List 2013
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Title: EXAMPLE TITLE
Time: X Hours
Difficulty: (Easy, Medium, Difficult)
Category: (Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, User Interface)
Mentor: DRIES
Description: EXAMPLE OVERALL SUMMARY OF THE TASK.
Deliverables: EXAMPLE DETAILS OF WHAT IS EXPECTED OF TASK.
Resources: EXAMPLE RESOURCES TO HELP ACCOMPLISH TASK.
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*Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code

Utilize this wiki to organize our application for Google's Code-In 2013 contest. Our plan is to have an initial application draft ready this Friday October 18th. Please edit this wiki and add your feedback. Application URL @ http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/application/google/gci2013

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Organization id: Drupal
Organization ID is used as part of various URL links throughout the site. You may reuse the same id for different years of the program. ASCII alphanumeric characters, digits, and underscores only.

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Are you interested in contributing to Drupal, but don't have the coding skills or experience necessary? Good news, now you have an awesome opportunity to contribute! Drupal is currently in the application process to be a part of the Google Code-In ( http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 ) contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Our current need is building a list of quality tasks for students to work on during the contest.