Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Fwd: [Tuxpaint-users] [fwd] Announcing Google Code-in

[Brendan L. <bm...@ri...>]

>From the small bit I've glanced over the description, this sounds pretty
cool. Think I can mentor if necessary.

-Brendan

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Caroline Ford
<car...@gm...>wrote:

> Shall we enter?
>
> Caroline
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...>
> Date: 9 October 2010 02:23
> Subject: [Tuxpaint-users] [fwd] Announcing Google Code-in
> To: Tux Paint <tux...@li...>, Tux Paint Users <
> tux...@li...>
>
>
>
> The Tux Paint project, as part of the larger Tux4Kids organization,
> has taken place in Google's "Summer of Code" program for the past
> few years.
>
> The program below, like their "Highly Open Participation" (GHOP),
> which was a way to get high school students involved in open source
> projects.  GSOC is for programming projects, while GHOP was for other
> aspects (documentation, art, etc.)  It seems that this new "Code-In"
> program is like the two programs combined (programming projects for
> high schoolers).
>
> I haven't looked into it closely, but I'm betting Tux Paint and
> the other Tux4Kids projects would benefit from participating.
> In any case, there might folks out here who are interested to
> know about this outside of Tux4Kids' involvement.  (e.g., educators,
> parents who have older kids, etc.)
>
> Enjoy & have a nice weekend!
>
> -bill!
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Carol Smith -----
>
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:27:22 -0700
> From: Carol Smith
> Subject: Announcing Google Code-in
>
>
>   Hi everyone,
>
>   We*re pleased to announce that we are planning to run the Google Code-in
>   contest starting this November. This is a contest modelled on the success
>   of our pilot program the Google Highly Open Participation Contest that
> was
>   run in 2007-08. We will again be giving 13-18 year old students around
> the
>   world an opportunity to get involved with open source projects doing
> tasks
>   ranging from documentation to outreach to coding programs.
>
>   We*re looking forward to a fun contest this year and hope you*ll consider
>   participating yourself if you are eligible or spread the word to friends,
>   family, and colleagues about the program. Please check out the timeline
>   [0] for more details on the program.
>
>   We encourage you to join the Google Code-in contest discussion list [1]
>   and announcement list [2].
>
>   Please see our blog post [3] for further details and contact me directly
>   if you have specific questions that aren*t answered in the FAQs [4].
>
>   [0] - http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/faqs.html#tlq1
>   [1] - http://groups.google.com/group/gci-discuss
>   [2] - http://groups.google.com/group/gci-announce
>   [3] -
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/10/google-code-in-schools-out-codes-in.html
>   [4] - http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/faqs.html
>
>   Cheers,
>   The Google OSPO Team
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
> -bill!
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>
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