Re: collaboration from students of a technical school

[Alex Vong]

Hello,

I cannot speak for others on what are most needed in Guix. But here is a
page summurizing project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2017:
<https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2017>

Cheers,
Alex

Quiliro Ordonez Baca <address@hidden> writes:

> I spoke with the director of a technical school (small universtity) that
> offers degrees in computer science. He said he could establish collaboration 
> in
> free software projects as part of the syllabus for the students. I could ask
> them to contribute to Guix.
> What tasks should I ask them to do? They
> must collaborate between 80, 120 and 800 hours before graduating,
> depending on their area of study. There are students of languages
> too. Perhaps they can add the descriptions to the packages. Maybe
> editorial contributions to the manual or contributing to the
> translations.  Descriptions could indeed be translated:
> LANG=fr_FR.utf-8 guix package --show=hello
>
> We could also ask them to have a hydra mirror or another server for
> Guix.
>
> It would be nice to have a list of TODO tasks...with knowledge
> dependencies specified in order to have them done by contributors. I
> think that easy tasks are a great way to help motivate people to learn
> more in order to contribute with the harder tasks later. Is there a
> place where tasks are described?

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