Re: Ideas wanted for student weekend a11y code-a-thon

[Steve Lee <steve fullmeasure co uk>]

BTW the dates for the SS12 events are

CSUN -- Feb 5-6
USC -- Feb 19-20
UCLA -- Feb 26-27

Steve

On 20 December 2010 17:09, Steve Lee <steve fullmeasure co uk> wrote:
> HI
>
> Project:Possibility are starting to organise next year's SS12 CS
> student competitions and are looking for ideas again. This year we're
> really pleased to announce that CSUN are joining USC and UCLA, meaning
> we will have 3 events. We also hope to have the finals and
> presentations at CSUN conference like last year. That means lots of
> opportunities to introduce students to GNOME a11y and get them working
> on projects.
>
> Last year Ben Konrath did a great job leading 2 teams to work on
> Caribou. Thus these students got an first class introduction to and
> experience in open source development that is otherwise unusual,
> except for self motivated individuals. We were very pleased to hear
> from the students last year that contributing to a 'real' open source
> project like GNOME was a big motivator.
>
> If you have any ideas for projects please do add them to (or otherwise update)
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved/SmallTasks
>
> The students get to pick ideas from a short list, so if you are lucky
> yours will be worked on. The ideas need to be small enough and self
> contained such they can be worked on over a weekend and have a chance
> of doing well in the judging. Students won't have much time to get up
> to speed with existing code bases.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Steve Lee
>
> Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk
>