Google Code-In --- Call for mentors !

[sagarpreet-chadha]

Hi, folks! Is anyone interested in becoming a mentor for Google code-in program this year ? DEADLINE 15 OCTOBER 2018, 11:59:59PM IST If you're interested, please leave a comment here. Thanks so much!

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Update via @Souravirus and others:

Those who want to be invited for GCI Mentor, thank you! Please follow these steps:

1. Solve a first-timers issue. Provide the link to the first timer issue's pull request (PR) once it's merged. In case, you are not able to find any first-timer issue, solve issue marked as fto-candidate or support, these issues may require little more work, but we'll try to help.
2. Solve a help-wanted issue. Help wanted issues are issues which are not labelled as gci-candidate neither as fto-candidate nor as first-timer-only. Provide link to such issues' merged PR. (Make sure you claim the issue first by commenting on issue you are planning to solve)
3. make a first-timers issue. Use the extra friendly template which we generally use for creating our first timer issues. Provide the link to the first timer issue which is created by you.
4. fill this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSBS-ddZN2H-lviUJbKlbV2VwP21fdIutXOCBzigRhmXJybw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Those who made any gci-candidate task, please update it in #3276 as well as google code-in dashboard. Also update the gci-candate task with this message: We are preparing to participate in Google Code-in, and have reserved this issue for participants in GCI - but we'd love to have your help with another one! Please check out https://code.publiclab.org to see more.

If you make any reusable task then update it here

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@jywarren has curated a great list of things on mentoring, here : https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2053

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Help copy in issues to Tasks on the GCI dashboard

Now we need to start copying tasks over to the GCI site!

• individual tasks can be added to the list here before they're quite ready to be made into a whole new issue: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/3276
• Many tasks that repeat (for multiple students) are being made and collected here: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/wiki/Google-Code-In-Tasks and each could have 25 instances
• https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/labels/gci-candidate has many tasks that may need to be copied in

Also be sure to sign up as a mentor for various tasks!

[sagarpreet-chadha]

I am interested ❣️

[namangupta01]

I am interested too. :)

[Souravirus]

I am also interested :smiley:

[grvsachdeva]

I am interested too!

[SidharthBansal]

I am interested too

[jywarren]

Amazing, everybody! I've made a note to bring this up on the coming Monday staff call for review.

[jywarren]

And just noting https://codein.withgoogle.com/ - doesn't seem active yet, but did someone say the application is due in October?

[MayankKashyap]

Oh very nycc, it's look good.

[StlMaris123]

I am interested too

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Mayank Kashyap notifications@github.com wrote:

Oh very nycc, it's look good.

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[shivani-kapania]

I’m interested!

[sachingoyal2910]

I'm interested.

[mridulnagpal]

I am interested too.

[ViditChitkara]

Interested!!!

[jywarren]

This is awesome. I checked and we are all good to apply this year. Let's keep coordinating in this issue and touch base when the deadlines approach. Thanks, all!

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Interested!!!

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[ankitbhardwaj78]

I am Interested...

[SarthakSam]

I am also interested!!

[sanchittanwar7]

Interested!

[jywarren]

Oh wow, thanks folks -- how did you end up finding our project?

[SarthakSam]

A friend of mine told me about it.

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Oh wow, thanks folks -- how did you end up finding our project?

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[namangupta01]

Hey @jywarren, @shivani-kapania and @sachingoyal2910 are my classmates. They are interested in contributing to the project.

[sanchittanwar7]

One of my friends is a member of this project. He told me about it.

[MayankKashyap]

@sachittanwar which project you would like to mentor. And btw welcome in public lab.

[sanchittanwar7]

Thanks @MayankKashyap. I'm looking for mentoring in plots2

[jywarren]

Hi, all - this was just announced, and it's early this year!

http://g.co/gci

Organization applications open on September 6, 2018 at 12:00 (Eastern Daylight Time)

The contest begins for students on October 23, 2018 at 12:00 (Eastern Daylight Time)!

Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2018 program please start thinking about the tasks you would like students to work on and reach out to your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for the program. 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.

Announcement blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html

Shall we start making a list of tasks or types of tasks that people want to create? As we mentioned before, we don't want to post them all at once, but to have a big list which we gradually post, so that we don't overwhelm ourselves with the response. We need to be sure we can support enough participants at the same time.

Where should we make our big list of tasks?

🎉 🎉

[jywarren]

Note the category Design: graphic design or user interface design -- could we ask for sketches/mockups, and design ideas for different parts of the site?

Potentially bite-sized design mockups that help to solve specific issues we identify... not even a page, but some small ambiguities or ugly spots? Something as small as this for example:

The nice part is that we might ask multiple students to submit mockups as design proposals, and we could compare their design solutions to the same problem.

@ebarry @steviepubliclab

[namangupta01]

@jywarren do we need to make list which is visible to all or visible to sphefic people if this is the case we can make list in reviewers group?

[jywarren]

I think we can make it visible to all -- but just not post them tagged as GCI tasks just yet. No?

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@jywarren https://github.com/jywarren do we need to make list which is visible to all or visible to sphefic people if this is the case we can go make list in reviewers group?

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[SidharthBansal]

We can make list visible to all without tags on that issue. We can have a milestone to group together all such tasks We can open a issue which will contain a checklist of all the issues. The checklist can be repeatedly edited by the mentors of GCI and they can refer the issue no in that checklist if issue is created. Tick the point in checklist if it is solved. The discussion can go beyond the main body of checklist in the issue. If we need more things to be added in the checklist we can for sure edit the list.

[SidharthBansal]

@jywarren can you please modify the reviewers team. There are many people who left pl and many new contributors. This will help us at GCI period. Can I open an issue at plots2 with different categories? Then folks can edit that and can add new issues name there.

[SidharthBansal]

We can also include the tasks not solved yet in GCI

[SidharthBansal]

Can we add points to issues for GCI?? I will really like to compete and have max points :smile:

[sagarpreet-chadha]

Cool idea @SidharthBansal ! Lets make a list on PL --- we can choose from these categories :

Lets start from here ? https://publiclab.org/wiki/gci-possible-tasks

[SidharthBansal]

OK I am opening a issue. Everyone can edit it.

[ccpandhare]

This might be very late; sorry. But I'd like to be a mentor too, if possible. 😁

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OK I am opening a issue. Everyone can edit it.

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[SidharthBansal]

You all can add issues under headings in #3276

[tech4GT]

Hello everyone, I'm in too!!😊

[SidharthBansal]

Hi all. Is there any mentoring form which mentors need to fill?

[jywarren]

I'm not sure -- i think probably when we apply and are accepted, we can invite mentors. That's how it works for GSoC.

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Hi all. Is there any mentoring form which mentors need to fill?

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[SidharthBansal]

@jywarren do we participate in outreachy?? I saw your posts about outreachy once

[jywarren]

We'd like to but haven't yet done so. Maybe this year...?

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@jywarren https://github.com/jywarren do we participate in outreachy?? I saw your posts about outreachy once

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[SidharthBansal]

Let me search and post the timeline....I want public lab will participate in every program held in yr

[SidharthBansal]

GCI applications are open now. Gentle ping to apply there @jywarren Thanks

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We'd like to but haven't yet done so. Maybe this year...?

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@jywarren https://github.com/jywarren do we participate in outreachy?? I saw your posts about outreachy once

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[SidharthBansal]

This is outreachy page. Applications are open soon. May I create a new issue for this @jywarren? https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/

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GCI applications are open now. Gentle ping to apply there @jywarren Thanks

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We'd like to but haven't yet done so. Maybe this year...?

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[SidharthBansal]

I think we need to apply before 12 sep in outreachy www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/

See the timeline

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This is outreachy page. Applications are open soon. May I create a new issue for this @jywarren? https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/

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GCI applications are open now. Gentle ping to apply there @jywarren Thanks

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We'd like to but haven't yet done so. Maybe this year...?

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[jywarren]

Ah, thanks, i'll note this but it may require fundraising!

For Code-In, i'm registering, but it asks:

Is your organization prepared to provide between 150 and 500 tasks for students to complete?

Are we??? 😄 🚀

[grvsachdeva]

We are prepared for sure :smile: :+1: :100:

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[sagarpreet-chadha]

Yes we can easily achieve the lower limit 😄 !

[jywarren]

Haha, ok you folks. We'll do it. But remember!!

Requirements:

1. provide a pool of tasks for contestants to choose from, which are publicly published by the Organization;
2. make available five (5) or more individuals responsible for helping contestants integrate with the Organization’s community ("mentors");
3. assign mentors (and alternates in case such mentor becomes unavailable) to monitor the progress of contestants working on the Organization’s tasks and mentoring them as the Contest proceeds;
4. evaluate contestants’ entries for tasks within thirty-six (36) hours of submission and decide whether or not the task has been completed successfully; assign at least two (2) administrators to act as a main point of contact for Google; and
5. evaluate the work of the twenty (20) highest scoring contestants and select six (6) contestants as Finalists and two (2) of those Finalists as Grand Prize Winners for the Organization.

[Souravirus]

Ok we can do it.

[jywarren]

Great -- the application is also asking to see: 25 example tasks. Are we organizing them at this issue? https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/3276#issuecomment-418078725

Can we make a list of 25 that are not posted as FTOs yet?