From: Quiliro Ordonez Baca <quiliro@riseup.net>
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: collaboration from students of a technical school
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:39:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sp8l9oo.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h8y7xv72.fsf@gmail.com
> Quiliro Ordonez Baca <quiliro@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> I spoke with the director of a technical school (small universtity) that
>> offers degrees in computer science. He said he could establish collaboration in
>> free software projects as part of the syllabus for the students. I could ask
>> them to contribute to Guix.
>> What tasks should I ask them to do? They
>> must collaborate between 80, 120 and 800 hours before graduating,
>> depending on their area of study. There are students of languages
>> too. Perhaps they can add the descriptions to the packages. Maybe
>> editorial contributions to the manual or contributing to the
>> translations. Descriptions could indeed be translated:
>> LANG=fr_FR.utf-8 guix package --show=hello
>>
>> We could also ask them to have a hydra mirror or another server for
>> Guix.
>>
>> It would be nice to have a list of TODO tasks...with knowledge
>> dependencies specified in order to have them done by contributors. I
>> think that easy tasks are a great way to help motivate people to learn
>> more in order to contribute with the harder tasks later. Is there a
>> place where tasks are described?
Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I cannot speak for others on what are most needed in Guix. But here is a
> page summurizing project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2017:
> <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2017>
Thank you very much, Alex. Will this mean that Google will provide
funding or it is just the task to take into consideration? Of course
that I think that the later is more important. But I just need to know
the considerations about the financing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-22 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-17 22:27 collaboration from students of a technical school Quiliro Ordonez Baca
2017-07-20 10:24 ` Alex Vong
2017-07-20 14:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-20 15:26 ` Jelle Licht
2017-07-20 23:39 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca [this message]
2017-07-22 21:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-07-23 8:26 ` Catonano
2017-07-28 0:15 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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