Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8_at_a1poweruser.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:39:02 -0400
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_at_)
>>
>> 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.
Received on Tue Oct 23 2012 - 12:39:12 UTC

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