Google Code-In 2011: we are in!
Woooo :D
You read it right! I've just got news that we've been selected for GCI 2011, the Google sponsored compotetion for young students (13-17).
What makes it different from Google Summer of Code is that we don't have a few students working on a single long term coding project, but we are going to have A LOT of students carrying out A LOT of tasks about A LOT of topics!
What tasks do you ask? You can check them out here: http://www.hedgewars.org/gci2011.html (also available from the new top link that replaced the GSoC one). Note that only half will be available from the start.
As you can see everyone can join in! With more than 80 tasks of varying difficulty we've got projects for future PRs, translators, documentation writers as well as for coders!
So GCI for students officially will start on November 21st, you can start reading up some of the task proposal and, why not, even suggest a few more as we still have some time before submitting our tasks!
Exciting times leads ahead of us and I hope everyone will have his share of fun in this next amazing adventure!
Koda
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Xeli
Hurray \o/
AlexFlower
Congratulations!
I can guarantee that GCI will do great for you guys!
doomy
What about younger students?*cough*me*cough*
BarthVader
Well... it's impressive. If people won't resign in the middle, HW will have LOTS of new features.
nemo
Life's not fair sometimes.
Maybe you can get someone else to team up with you.
claymore
How are people's ages verified anyway...
nemo
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2011/rules
"You must demonstrate the consent of a parent or legal guardian in order to be eligible to receive any prizes as well as written proof of age and proof of enrollment in a pre-university, high school or secondary school program."
Al Capone
Sounds good!
However, I was wondering about the theme editor task - isn't there already a theme editor (http://www.hedgewars.org/node/2682)?
nemo
.NET
Given how simple a theme editor is, hardly requires that.
Could in theory be done in HTML/JS
http://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/misc/theme_editor.html
Simple theme editor Henek had started, but not completed
Dark Spyro
Anyway it sound awsome