Google Code In 2017 Tasks
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Effort for a Task
- Each task is expected to take 3-5 hours of work to complete
- Students have at least 3 days to complete the task
Types of Tasks
There are 5 types of Code-in Tasks in general:
- Code
- Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
- Documentation/Training
- Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
- Outreach/Research
- Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
- Quality Assurance
- Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
- User Interface
- Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
Beginner Tasks
- A student can only complete a total of 2 beginner tasks
- Each OSGeo project should specify that a task is a beginner task by including "[BEGINNER]" at the end of the task name
Example Tasks
- Haiku project's 2016 tasks: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2016/organization/5146925732986880/task/
- Haiku project's tasks in json format: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pulkomandy/GCITool/master/tasks.json
- "Install and open project XXX and take a screenshot showing the interface, with your Code-in dashboard in the background"
- "Fix an issue in the tracker for project XXX [DIFFICULT]"
- "Present the project XXX to your class [BEGINNER]"
Project Tasks
Choose tasks from any of the OSGeo projects below (these are official OSGeo projects, projects in OSGeo incubation, and OSGeo community projects):
Content Management Systems
GeoNode
official website: http://geonode.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Desktop
GRASS GIS
official website: http://grass.osgeo.org/
mentor: Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
gvSIG
official website: http://www.gvsig.com/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Marble
official website: http://marble.kde.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Opticks
official website: http://opticks.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Virtual Terrain Project
official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Virtual_Terrain_Project
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
QGIS
official website: http://qgis.org
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Geospatial Libraries
FDO
official website: http://fdo.osgeo.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
GDAL/OGR
official website: http://gdal.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Geoinformatica
official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoinformatica
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
GEOS
official website: https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
GeoTools
official website: http://www.geotools.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
MetaCRS
official website: http://metacrs.osgeo.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Orfeo ToolBox (OTB)
official website: http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
OSSIM
official website: https://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
pgRouting
official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PgRouting
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
PostGIS
official website: http://postgis.net/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Postal Address Geo-Coder
official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Postal_Address_Geo-Coder
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Proj4php
official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Proj4php
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Metadata Catalogs
GeoNetwork
official website: http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
pycsw
official website: http://pycsw.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Web Mapping
deegree
official website: http://www.deegree.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
geomajas
official website: http://www.geomajas.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
GeoMOOSE
official website: http://www.geomoose.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
GeoServer
official website: http://geoserver.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
GeoWebCache
official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoWebCache
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
istSOS
official website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IstSOS
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Mapbender
official website: http://mapbender.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
MapFish
official website: http://www.mapfish.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
MapGuide Open Source
official website: http://mapguide.osgeo.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
MapProxy
official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapProxy
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
MapServer
official website: http://mapserver.org
OpenLayers
official website: http://openlayers.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
PyWPS
official website: http://www.pywps.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Team Engine
official website: http://teamengine.sourceforge.net/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
ZOO-Project
official website: http://www.zoo-project.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
Outreach
GeoForAll
official website: http://www.osgeo.org/education
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A
OSGeo-Live
official website: http://live.osgeo.org/
mentor: N/A
tasks: N/A