Google Code-in: Inside projects and tasks involved in open source software development.
Starting November 26, 2012, the Google
Code-in international program, aims to give students (13-17 year), the
opportunity to explore the many types of projects and tasks involved in open
source software development.
The types of tasks students will be working on will fall into the following
categories:
- Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
- Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
- Outreach/research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
- Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
- User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
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updates on the contest.
Students earn one point for each task completed. Students will receive a
certificate for completing one task and can earn a t-shirt when they complete
three tasks. At the end of the contest each of the ten (10) open source
organizations will name two (2) grand prize winners for their organization
based upon the students’ body of work. The 20 grand prize winners will receive
a trip to Google’s Mountain View, California, USA Headquarters for themselves
and a parent or legal guardian for an award ceremony, an opportunity to meet
with Google engineers, explore the Google campus and have a fun day in the San
Francisco, California sun.
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