Steps for Admins for future GCI contests

• Fill out Google application (see template for previous applications)

• Create/update GNOME wikipages if not existing already
• Collect potential tasks in GNOME wiki before GNOME becomes an accepted GCI organization according to the following template:

1. Title of the task:
  $Project: $TaskSummary
2. Description:
  * Steps: (e.g. as a list)
  * Benefits:
  * Requirements: (e.g. programming languages, Git - http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers, etc)
  * Extra (optional): (e.g. additional work that could be done related to this)
  * Links: (any other helpful ressources that come to your mind)
3. Time to Complete:
  Deadline in hours (e.g. "96" if student has four days to deliver the result)
4. Mentor:
  Link ID's of mentors for this task, comma separated
5. Difficulty level:
  {Easy, Medium, Hard}
6. Task type(s):
  {Documentation, Outrach, User Interface, Research, Training, Code, Translation, Code}
7. Optional: Task tags: any custom tags you want to add

• After getting accepted follow instructions and provide potential further information that is required

• Admins must check "Notifications" in Google Melange from time to time, as it is unclear when exactly notification mail (e.g. requests to become a mentor) is sent to your GMail account

• Urge mentors from tasks in GNOME wiki to register an account in Google Melange and provide required information.
  Email template from Nomveber 2011:

[You receive this email because you are listed as a mentor on
https://live.gnome.org/GoogleCodeIn/Tasks ]


Hej hej,

thanks for volunteering to be a Google Code-In (GCI) mentor for GNOME!

The contest starts on Monday (November 21, 08:00 UTC) and since today we
are even able to create tasks in Google's Melange system. ;)


** WHAT YOU SHOULD TO DO NOW: **

1) If you have not done yet, please go to
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/profile/mentor/google/gci2011 to
register yourself for GCI in general.

2) Afterwards, please tell me the email address or link_id that you used
for registering so I can invite you to become a GCI mentor for GNOME
(either reply to this email, or ping andre / andre_ on GIMPnet IRC).

3) After I have invited you as a mentor, check your mail again to finish
the process.

Note: I cannot see if you have registered or finished the process -
better to send one email too much just to be on the safe side.

I am going to take care of importing the tasks from our wikipage to
Google Melange, but I can only set a mentor for a task if the mentor is
already registered (see steps above).


** YOUR AVAILABILITY: **

Stuff happens, so if you will not be available for a while please try to
find a co-mentor and add her/him to the task, or send an email to the
admins (which are JohannesSchmid, DavidKing and AndreKlapper - see our
pages on http://live.gnome.org for contact info).

The GCI Terms of Service state that "The Mentor Organization agrees
[...] To make available a person or persons to evaluate the incoming
completed tasks, within 36 hours of submission, and to decide whether or
not the task has been completed successfully".
I don't take that too seriously, however I don't want trouble either. :)


** MOST IMPORTANT THING: **

Enjoy the contest and have a good time, and in case of questions please
ask.


Cheerio,
andre

• Migrate (Bulk import) tasks from GNOME wikipage to Google Melange and set mentors according to their link IDs after they have successfully registered
• Enjoy!
• After GCI has finished, ask some students about blogging about it (KDE's nightrose did that)

• Publish unfinished tasks (KDE's nightrose did that: http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2012/01/20/we-have-some-code-in-tasks-left-over-for-you/ )