GRASS GCI Ideas 2017
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About
This is the GRASS page for Google Code In 2017. Here we will list task ideas and other information related to the GRASS GCI projects.
What is Google Code-In?
Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google Code-in: Our global, online, contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills they have. Mentors from our participating organizations lend a helping hand as participants learn what it’s like to work on an open source project. For more details, see Google Code-In main page.
How does it work?
- Students search for a task that interests them and claim it. They have at least three days and up to five to complete it.
- The student works on the task, getting guidance from mentors, if needed.
- Once the student has finished, he/she submits the work for review through the contest website.
- Mentors from the organization evaluate the work, provide feedback, and if it's complete, accept it! Otherwise, specific feedback is provided, and the student goes back to step #2!
- Go to step #1 and repeat!
More details can be found at: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/how-it-works
Tasks
The organizations should create a large list of short (3-5 hour) tasks for students to work on. Tasks are categorized as: Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, or User Interface. Some examples of tasks of different categories can be found here.
Ideas for tasks
Some ideas collected so far:
- Create a screenshot for the next 74 release announcement
- Design the t-shirt for the next code-sprint
- Add examples to manual pages
- Make a promo video for GRASS GIS
- Make new tutorial videos for GRASS GIS
- Write a short blog entry about GRASS GIS (or a certain module)
- Enhance the visual index
- Make screenshots to populate the visual change log in new features pages (e.g., for New Features GRASS 7.4)
- Create icons/phrases to include in sticker sheets
- Give a talk about GRASS GIS to classmates
- Submit a patch for a certain bug or enhancement ticket
- Contribute tests for modules
- add your own idea...
Details about the tasks
- There should be some very simple and introductory tasks such as installing GRASS GIS and making a screenshot, intermediate tasks, and more advanced ones as those involving a bit (more) of coding. A certain large task might also be split into smaller tasks.
- Those general ideas like "make examples for manual pages" might then be replicated for several modules, for example, and each one will constitute a task.
- Translations are not allowed by Google Code In as tasks.
Available mentors
List of available mentors to follow the tasks
Note: To sign up as a mentor, write an email to: gsoc-admin@osgeo.org.