Google Code-in 2012-2013

Google Code-in is approaching. Organization application time-frame opens next Monday (22th Oct 2012) and closes two weeks later. Application is our main focus at the moment and that's why we need people that are willing to help with that. Code-in is focused on pre-university students, which are definitely future of our community. If you have few hours to contribute and you want to help attracting young people to join our community, please contact me or leave a comment.

Wondering what is Code-in?

Following on the success of the Google Summer of Code program for university students, the Google Code-in is a contest for pre-university students (e.g., high school and secondary school students ages 13-17) with the goal of encouraging young people to participate in open source. A similar program, the Google Highly Open Participation contest ran in 2007, and in 2010 we changed the format slightly and the Google Code-in program was born. Now in its third year the Google Code-in contest continues to reach students from around the globe. There have been 904 students from 65 countries that completed tasks in the Google Code-in contest in the 2010 and 2011 editions of the program.

For many students the Google Code-in contest is their first introduction to open source development. For Google Code-in we work with open source organizations, each of whom has experience mentoring students in the Google Summer of Code program, to provide "bite sized" tasks for participating students to complete.

Even more info:
- http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2012/index.html
- http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012