Since Monday 21st November, KDE is offering various and interesting tasks for students aged 13 to 17 through Google Code-In: coding, translation from English to several languages, screenshots for KDE documentation, bug triaging, outreach tasks to make KDE more known, ... you can see that anyone can find a task for his abilities!
It is very rewarding to work with those students: they are enthusiastic and work hard to achieve the task. Some leave comments about the task and how they were glad to discover this application or how they look forward to doing another similar task.
Out of the 20 tasks I am mentoring, 16 are already done! They ranged from taking screenshots in French language to coding some QWhatsThis to translating docs to French.
We have until the 16th December to add new tasks which will be published on the 16th. Do not hesitate if you have some task that you delay until you have more time, it's your chance now to have it done. Think about your website, wiki pages, documentation, videos, blogging, bug triaging, ... all these things devels keep discarding for later.
So, what is a good task proposal?
- Precise task title to describe the task with maximum accuracy in minimum words (include words like Screenshots, French, the program name,...)
- Description of the task: should be very precise. Keep in mind the young people do not know KDE as we do. When I wrote in my tasks descriptions "screenshots in KDE defaults" they could not know what those default are(if they never changed anything in the settings they assume they have default, even if those defaults are Ubuntu orange color!). So I precised later to set color and style and window decorations to Oxygen in System Settings
- Expected results: this is the output of the task when finished. The student will upload the finished work to the task webpage. For screenshots, I forgot to precise that they should not change the English names and to compress the files in an archive.
- Prerequisites: what they should know beforehand (usually know the program they will work on, the tool they will need like Lokalize, the level of knowledge they should have like being fluent in French for a French translation).
Doing all these steps will ensure success for your task!
Do not hesitate to mail me or to ping me or anyone on IRC (freenode, #kde-soc) if you want to ask tasks and need more information.
It is very rewarding to work with those students: they are enthusiastic and work hard to achieve the task. Some leave comments about the task and how they were glad to discover this application or how they look forward to doing another similar task.
Out of the 20 tasks I am mentoring, 16 are already done! They ranged from taking screenshots in French language to coding some QWhatsThis to translating docs to French.
We have until the 16th December to add new tasks which will be published on the 16th. Do not hesitate if you have some task that you delay until you have more time, it's your chance now to have it done. Think about your website, wiki pages, documentation, videos, blogging, bug triaging, ... all these things devels keep discarding for later.
So, what is a good task proposal?
- Precise task title to describe the task with maximum accuracy in minimum words (include words like Screenshots, French, the program name,...)
- Description of the task: should be very precise. Keep in mind the young people do not know KDE as we do. When I wrote in my tasks descriptions "screenshots in KDE defaults" they could not know what those default are(if they never changed anything in the settings they assume they have default, even if those defaults are Ubuntu orange color!). So I precised later to set color and style and window decorations to Oxygen in System Settings
- Expected results: this is the output of the task when finished. The student will upload the finished work to the task webpage. For screenshots, I forgot to precise that they should not change the English names and to compress the files in an archive.
- Prerequisites: what they should know beforehand (usually know the program they will work on, the tool they will need like Lokalize, the level of knowledge they should have like being fluent in French for a French translation).
Doing all these steps will ensure success for your task!
Do not hesitate to mail me or to ping me or anyone on IRC (freenode, #kde-soc) if you want to ask tasks and need more information.
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