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| | 2 | 1. What is Google Code-in? |
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| | 4 | Following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code™ program, Google is holding a contest for pre-university students (e.g., high school and secondary school students) with the aim of encouraging young people to participate in open source. We will work with open source organizations, each of whom will provide a list of tasks to be completed by student contestants. Tasks can be anything a project needs help with, from bug fixes to writing documentation to user experience research. |
| | 5 | 2. What are the goals of this contest? |
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| | 7 | Google Code-in (GCI) is intended to help students who may have wanted to get involved in open source but didn't know where to start. By working through the tasks suggested by organizations, contestants will be given the opportunity to engage with the open source community and get involved. The participating open source projects gain the benefit of additional contributions to their project, often in important areas that may get overlooked for whatever reason. |
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| | 9 | It is Google's not so secret hope that the student contestants of today will be long-term contributors to these and other open source projects in the future. |
| | 10 | Tasks |
| | 11 | Tasks will typically fall into the following categories: |
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| | 13 | 1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code |
| | 14 | 2. Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents |
| | 15 | 3. Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing |
| | 16 | 4. Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality |
| | 17 | 5. Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions |
| | 18 | 6. Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more |
| | 19 | 7. Translation: Tasks related to localization |
| | 20 | 8. User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction |
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