GoogleCodeIn/2012/Ideas

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Guidelines

Information for Students

This page is for collecting ideas for Google Code-in tasks. The tasks will be moved into Melange for you to claim when appropriate.

Adding a Proposal

Please only add proposals you are willing to mentor!

When adding an idea to this section, please try to include the following data:

  • a brief explanation
  • the expected results
  • prerequisites for working on your project if any
  • if applicable, links to more information or discussions
  • your name and email address for contact
  • time to complete the proposal

The proposals should be ordered by area:

  • Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
  • Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents
  • Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing
  • Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
  • Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions
  • Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more
  • User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

If you have a good idea for a proposal but are not going to mentor it, get in contact with relevant team/contributor first.

Ideas

Code

ProjectName: idea title

Description
foo
Mentor
bar

Documentation/Training

ProjectName: idea title

Description
foo
Mentor
bar

Outreach/Research

Amarok: Migrate content from amarok.kde.org/wiki to various KDE wikis

Description
The content that is still useful should be moved to: community.kde.org/Amarok, userbase or techbase depending on target audience. Links to be made from a new page on amarok.kde.org linked to from the site's menu.
Mentor

Amarok: Make a "Team" page

Description
Based on information from Amarok's "About" dialog, various social networks such as openDesktop.org, and talking to team members, make a "Team" page on Amarok's project website, like [1] or [2]. We're specifically interested in a nice design and layout, and can fill out the data ourselves later on.
Mentor

Quality Assurance

ProjectName: idea title

Description
foo
Mentor
bar

User Interface

ProjectName: idea title

Description
foo
Mentor
bar