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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:59:07 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>, "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!
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On 23 October 2012 12:54, David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, October 23, 2012 10:39, Fbsd8 wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> It would depend on what one's interests were.

Google code-in is aimed at *coders* and there is an expectation of
people writing *code*.

The biggest complaint for GCI last year was "not enough coding tasks"


-- 
Eitan Adler



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