Google Code-in

This is a contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Please be aware GCI will start about a month earlier this year than in previous years - the contest starts for students October 23rd 2018.

Organization applications open for GCI orgs next week on Thursday, September 6th, and close less than 2 weeks later on Monday, September 17th. We will announce organizations on Tuesday, September 18th giving orgs 5 weeks to create their tasks before the contest begins on October 23rd.

Mentors: please join [KDE-Soc-Mentor] list if you are not subscribed.

Contest site: https://codein.withgoogle.com/ | Announcement: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html

The major changes for GCI 2018

Orgs will evaluate the 20 students completing the most tasks with their org when deciding on finalists and winners
Orgs will choose 6 finalists (instead of 5)
We have renamed the User Interface category to Design
Students will have to wait until Google reviews their Parental Consent form before they can claim their first task. This will slow things down but it is a requirement to be able to continue the program.
No tasks asking for personal information about students will be allowed (this includes tasks asking for students to introduce themselves with info like what country they are from, or photos of the students, etc.).

Please add task ideas in the following areas, followed by mentor name

Code: writing or refactoring

KDE neon Version Info Page

Write a script, preferably in Ruby but anything will do, to grab the current versions of key packages from archive.neon.kde.org and put it on a web page. https://phabricator.kde.org/T9388

mentors: Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]>

KDE Partition Manager: Write unit tests for LvmDevice

Try to understand this class' functionalities in kpmcore and write some unit tests for it.

mentors: Caio Jordão Carvalho <[email protected]>, Andrius Stikonas <[email protected]>

KDE Partition Manager: Write unit tests for SoftwareRAID

Try to understand this class' functionalities in kpmcore and write some unit tests for it.

mentors: Caio Jordão Carvalho <[email protected]>, Andrius Stikonas <[email protected]>

Documentation/Training: creating/editing documents and helping others learn more

GCompris: Add manual to "Guess count"

See task https://phabricator.kde.org/T8512

mentors: Timothee<[email protected]>, Johnny<[email protected]>, Aman<[email protected]>, Amit<[email protected]>, Divyam<[email protected]>

GCompris: Document "menu/ConfigurationItem.qml"

Look for how this item is used and as some documentation to it.

mentors: Timothee<[email protected]>, Johnny<[email protected]>, Aman<[email protected]>, Amit<[email protected]>, Divyam<[email protected]>

KDE Partition Manager: Write a simple manual for LVM PV creation process

mentors: Caio Jordão Carvalho <[email protected]>, Andrius Stikonas <[email protected]>

KDE Partition Manager: Write a simple manual for LVM VG creation process

mentors: Caio Jordão Carvalho <[email protected]>, Andrius Stikonas <[email protected]>

KDE Partition Manager: Write a simple manual for the creation process of one of the available RAID levels

mentors: Caio Jordão Carvalho <[email protected]>, Andrius Stikonas <[email protected]>

Outreach/Research: community management, marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions

Beginner: Connect to the #kde-soc channel on freenode, introduce yourself, and have a conversation with someone

To connect to IRC, either install and use a client, such as KDE's Konversation, mIRC on Windows, or Colloquoy on Mac; OR use webchat: https://webchat.freenode.net/
Once you have connected to irc.freenode.net, join the #kde-soc channel (/join #kde-soc) and introduce yourself. Explain that you are doing a beginner GCi task, and that to finish that, you need to talk to someone. You might ask questions that help you in your future tasks, as IRC is how many of us communicate on a daily basis.
Submit a screenshot of the beginning or end of the conversation.

mentors: Aman<[email protected]>, Amit<[email protected]>

Beginner: How did you get to know about KDE?

Write a short 5 paragraph essay answering and explaining the above. You should ideally state your experience about "that first time" when you heard/read about KDE. You can also include the information about what you know about KDE till now, points about opensource and free software in general.