It's happening:
Google will run another round this year:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/timeline
The entire Wikimedia community benefits from it, so help is highly welcome.
Also, the Community-Tech team looks like another natural candidate to be involved this year.
From last year:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Aklapper | T111520 Organize and coordinate Wikimedia's participation in Google Code-In 2015 | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T115408 Apply to Google Code-in 2015 by 2015-11-11 17:00UTC | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T115409 Recruit Google Code-in 2015 mentors | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T118835 Decide on Google Code-in 2015 Grand Prize winners for Wikimedia until 2016-02-01 | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T123134 Gather feedback from GCI mentors after GCI 2015 |
"help is highly welcome."
Help with what? :) Is there anything I can do, technical stuff or wiki stuff or something I can do?
Created initial stub at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015 - LST does not seem to like translation markers, sigh.
Thanks for the interest in helping! Appreciated.
Let me wait for some more instructions for organizations then we will be able to tell more.
For example, last time Google wanted to see some task ideas already listed somewhere (=wikipage) when applying (that's Nov 03rd). I have no idea if that's again the case but I'd love to avoid that as importing from wiki into Google's Melange system was a bit cumbersome. Plus Google does not plan to use Melange anymore this year but a new system that is not available yet. Hence quite some question marks here...
Yesterday was the deadline for "All student work must be submitted; contest ends".
Closing as resolved. Thanks everybody!!
Other final GCI-related stuff to tackle, but not blocking this "organizing and coordinating" task, are: