comments on code-in tasks for FreeBSD (Re: FreeBSD + Google Code-In 2014 = we need ideas.)

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 07:55:16PM -0800, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2014, at 17:40, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> > But please nuke the current list -- it is completely inadequate
> > for the code-in candidates and misleading for whoever wants to
> > suggest new tasks. Again i am not saying that the projects
> > suggested there are not important, just belong somewhere else
> > e.g. gsoc.
> 
> I refrained from voicing my opinion while the call for help was going
> on, but I completely agree that the target age of this Google
> initiative is inadequate to FreeBSD.  The target population is 13
> years to 17 years old and I cannot even imagine a 13 year old knowing
> what FreeBSD is.
> 
> I'm not sure we should participate in Code In ever again and perhaps
> we should focus our efforts on Summer of Code only.
> 

We could give them some simpler tasks like doing something on the wiki, create
FreeBSD advocacy stuff or working on the website.
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