RTEMS and Google Code-In

[Joel Sherrill]

Oh. That looks like a good opportunity.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Denis Obrezkov <denisobrezkov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh, I have meant this project: https://www.outreachy.org/
>
> 2017-09-22 21:13 GMT+02:00 Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>:
>
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>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Denis Obrezkov <denisobrezkov at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> There is also the Outreachy project, does RTEMS participate in it?
>>>
>>>
>> There are categories of tasks and Outreach is one of them. In the past,
>> we have had students make new logos, gather information on RTEMS
>> science missions for flyers, make a video of building RTEMS explaining
>> that to others, etc. It is a broad category and each task is often
>> repeatable
>> by multiple students.
>>
>> Unlike GSoC, there are "repeatable" tasks. A lot of students can do
>> a task but each only once. The GSoC hello is always one of these.
>>
>> For tasks like these, any RTEMS user should be able to review the
>> work.
>>
>> Also mentors are a "pool" and respond to students as they need
>> us. Basically, they ask a question, submit work for review, etc. Whichever
>> mentor gets to it first, handles it.
>>
>> A special case is when work must be merged. Someone either needs
>> to merge it or accept responsibility for submitting it and tracking it
>> through merger. It is better not to close those tasks before merged.
>>
>> --joel
>>
>>
>>> 2017-09-22 18:35 GMT+02:00 Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Google Code-In is a program sponsored by the Google Open Source
>>>> Program Office like Google Summer of Code but targeted to high school
>>>> students. The projects are small taking no more than a few days. In
>>>> order
>>>> to be available to as many students as possible, many are non-coding.
>>>>
>>>> Open source organizations like RTEMS must have mentors and a
>>>> fairly extensive task list. We have done this multiple times in the
>>>> past.
>>>> It is rewarding but hectic and we need as many mentors as possible.
>>>>
>>>> Mentors can be anyone technically capable of using RTEMS. GCI
>>>> spans late November to mid-January and we need people who can
>>>> handle tasks for different periods of that.
>>>>
>>>> GSoC students would be highly encouraged to exercise their newly
>>>> gained knowledge and be mentors.
>>>>
>>>> GCI is a lot of fun and rewarding. We have gotten a lot of good work
>>>> from students in the past. For example, much of the Doxygen per
>>>> file boiler plate was added by GCI students. Repetitive tasks which
>>>> are not scriptable but need to be done lots of times are good
>>>> candidates.
>>>>
>>>> If you want more info, could mentor, or could recruit someone who uses
>>>> RTEMS who doesn't pop up on the list, please speak up.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> --joel
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards, Denis Obrezkov
>>>
>>
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> Regards, Denis Obrezkov
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