FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!
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Tue Oct 23 14:39:12 UTC 2012
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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