Re: collaboration from students of a technical school

[Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>]

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2017-07-21 1:39 GMT+02:00 Quiliro Ordonez Baca <quiliro@riseup.net>:

>
> > 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.
>
>

Apart from the ideas indicated above, I would like to suggest the simple
task of creating new packages and new services.

It's basic but II don't know the skills leve of these students. It might be
a good introduction to Guix, Guile, Scheme

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