A global, online open source development & outreach contest for pre-college students ages 13-17
The Google Code-in contest gives students around the world an opportunity to explore the world of open source development. Google not only runs open source software throughout their business, theyvalue the way the open source model encourages people to work together on shared goals over the internet.
Nice design developed by a GCI student
Participants complete “tasks” of their choice for a variety of open source software projects. Students can earn t-shirts, digital certificates, and hooded sweatshirts for their work. Each software project will name two students as their grand prize winners and those students win a four day trip to Google in Mountain View, CA, USA the next summer.
Since open source development is much more than just computer programming, there are lots of different kinds of tasks to choose from, broken out into five major categories:
1. Code: Writing or refactoring code.
2. Documents & Training: Creating and editing documentation and helping others learn.
3. Outreach & Research: Community management and outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions.
4. Quality Assurance: Testing to ensure code is of high quality.
5. Design: User experience research , interface design or anything in design related to our project.
Please help us spread the word and bring more students into the open source family!
