Google Code In Mentoring

[Nicholas Skaggs]

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/