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

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]>

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: Subscribe to the GCompris-devel mail list, and introduce yourself

Subscribe to GCompris mailing list. https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/gcompris-devel for information on how to subscribe.
Once you have confirmed your subscription, send a post to the list introducing yourself. This means sending an email to [email protected]
Once you have sent your post, find it in the archives at https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/gcompris-devel/ and submit the link to your email to finish the task.
You may unsubscribe after posting if you like, however you are welcome to stay subscribed if you like.

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