Re: tasks for Google's code-in!

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Fri, October 28, 2011 2:53 pm, Stormy Peters wrote:
> I like all the ideas so far.
>
> We could ask for help on the 2011 annual report ...
>
> We could ask someone to make a website that shows where all the GNOME
> talks
> are and have been with links to any videos or slides.

Great idea!

We also have a big gap in the training category of tasks for the code-in.
Perhaps we should include videos targeted at users here? What do we think
are good areas for this? Maybe a basic "How do I get GNOME running on my
computer" video would be helpful? Anything else come to mind?

We have to get all of our ideas up on the tasks wiki by tomorrow. I'll be
on the plane tomorrow (one without internet, sadly) from pretty early,
does someone want to do this? Otherwise, I'll check once I get to my hotel
tomorrow and get it done on the later side. Actually, I'll try to put up
there now what we have so far.

karen

> Stormy
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> > > Hey marketing team,
> > >
> > > Hopefully you saw André Klapper's email to desktop-devel about the
> > Google
> > > Code-in:
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00175.html
> > > We only have a few days to add tasks, and at least 5 of them should be
> > in
> > > the Community Outreach/marketing category.
> > >
> > > I think the program is a bit late to ask for help on our annual
> > report,
> > > but I think there are a lot of other things we could use help with.
> > For
> > > example:
> > >
> > > * we could ask for nice promotional videos be made about some aspects
> > of
> > > GNOME 3.2 along the lines of Jason Clinton's excellent ones for the
> > GNOME
> > > 3 release, or about other GNOME initiatives like a11y.
> > >
> > > * we could ask for help with GNOME Journal, including asking for
> > specific
> > > articles to be written.
> > >
> > > * we can also ask a student to go through our whole website and
> > identify
> > > out of date sections, broken links and other areas that can be
> > improved
> > or
> > > updated.
> > >
> > > We need easy, medium and hard tasks, so there's really a wide
> > opportunity
> > > here. As others have pointed out, we should focus on tasks that will
> > be
> > > cool and interesting to students and that will probably look good on a
> > > college application.
> > >
> > > What do you think? What tasks should we add?
> > > karen
> >
> > A few more ideas:
> >
> >  * Write a history of the GNOME project
> >
> >  * Create a presentation to promote GNOME
> >
> >  * Design a template for one page release notes [1]
> >
> > Allan
> >
> > [1]
> > http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/fedora-12-one-page-release-notes-pdf/
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