Google Code In Mentoring

[Nicholas Skaggs]

I've added some tasks for GCI to have students review the documentation
wiki, and attempt to submit fixes for documentation. It would be best to
have a mentor from this team assigned to the tasks, so again, if there is
any interest in mentoring, let me know.  Thanks everyone!

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hello! I am writing to encourage you/your team to consider taking part in
> Google Code In (GCI). GCI is a opportunity for high school students to
> learn about and participate in open source communities. Mentoring
> organizations create tasks and review the students work. Google then
> provides rewards for those students who do the best work. This year we are
> excited to share with you that Ubuntu has been selected as a mentoring
> organization for GCI 2015. The contest runs from December 7, 2015 to
> January 25, 2016.
>
> That means we need to come up with a list of tasks for students to work
> on, as well as mentors to review the tasks and help the students. This is
> an excellent opportunity to help introduce students to the ubuntu
> community, grow the list of potential contributors, and get some tasks
> done. We've put together a wiki page to answer specific questions about
> mentoring and what it entails[1], as well as a community portal that
> describes our role and goals for the contest[2]. You can create a be a
> mentor for as little as a single task, and we appreciate all the tasks and
> mentors we get.
>
>
> Specifically for the Docs team, I think it would be useful to review the
> contributor documentation, and there's plenty of wiki cleanup to do! You
> could also consider adding tasks for things like video tutorials for
> contributing etc. I have no doubt the team could come up with a list of
> useful things to do.
>
> In short, this is an excellent opportunity to reach high school students
> and inform them about ubuntu and the opportunities they have within ubuntu
> and open source. I hope you consider taking part. If you have any questions
> or would like to volunteer, don't hesitate to get in touch. Thanks for your
> consideration,
>
> Nicholas
>
> 1.https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleCodeIn
> 2. http://community.ubuntu.com/google-code-in/
>
>
>
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