Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Tasks for the Google Code-In

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>wrote:

> Le 29/10/2010 11:17, Selena Deckelmann a écrit :
> > The Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSL) has contacted me
> about
> > coordinating some student work for the Google Code-In, a program
> targetting
> > 13-18 year olds.
> >
> > See more here: http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html
> >
> > This program specifically allows documentation, testing and advocacy
> > activity not normally allowed in the Google Summer of Code. And OSL is
> > offering to be an umbrella organization -- handling the administrative
> > details for us.
> >
> > So! Do you have some 2-3 week projects in mind? Please post some ideas,
> and
> > we can get this going.
> >
>
> The pgAdmin's documentation is not in a good shape right now. This is
> something I would like to work on for next release. But, actually, time
> flies, and I still haven't found the time to work on it.
>
> We're still looking at tools that we will use to write the documentation.
>
> Anyway, even if they do this with OpenOffice.org, it would really help
> us. Do you think this could be a good project? I don't expect a full
> documentation, but having an explanation of the menus and dialogs
> components would be great.

Yes, that sounds great.

I think we should probably break it down into a few chunks so that it is
easy for students to circle back and get feedback, and document some
requirements for screen captures (size, resolution).

I'll loop you into conversation with OSL!

thanks,
-selena

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