Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:39:02 -0400 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too! Message-ID: <5086AC06.5070405@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20121022174457.GB59689@FreeBSD.org> References: <20121016101957.GB53800@FreeBSD.org> <20121022174457.GB59689@FreeBSD.org>
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Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: >> (cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@) >> >> Hello, >> >> Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest for >> youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range: >> >> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 >> >> It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to that >> (Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this year as >> well. >> >> For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100. >> >> I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please submit >> your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here: >> >> http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1 >> >> Examples of previously completed tasks: >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks >> >> Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and submit >> straight to Wiki: >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks >> >> I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this project. >> >> Help will be appreciated. >> > > Update: > > It looks pretty bad so far. Page: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks > > Has 38 tasks so far out of which: > > ~30 would qualify. > > Consider this e-mail to be the last call for action. Otherwise we'll have to > pull back and concentrate our efforts on GSOC instead. > The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation. I would want to use and develop my coding skills. To that end there a lot of simple PR's waiting for attention. This is an target area that young coders would find more interesting. Such as kern/170090 or replacing the Freebsd Ipfilter v4.1.28 version with the current Ipfilter version 5.1.2. This is just reusing the tools used last time ipfilter was ported over. Just my 2 cents.
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