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Interested Mentors

Please first fill out the Google form mentioned at the top of: Google Code In 2018 Mentors

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
Design: 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

OSGeo's 2017 tasks: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/organization/5168183002529792/task/
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

see shared spreadsheet on Google Drive

Bulk Uploading Tasks

Documentation

API

Prep

NOTE: the python scripts for bulk uploading are written for Python2, but the instructions below should work for both Python2 & 3:

git clone https://code.googlesource.com/codein/api api
cd api
check your Python version:
- python -V
install module "requests" through easy_install or pip:
- easy_install requests
- pip install requests
for Python2, no more changes are needed, proceed to next sections below (export tasks, or list tasks, or upload tasts, etc)
for Python3, make the following changes:
- in list_tasks.py change print command on line# 45 to
  - print ('\t'.join([str(t['id']), t['name']]))
- in list_tasks.py convert to an int on line# 52 to
  - next_page = int(result.group(1))
- in csv_uploader.py change line# 64 to
  - with open(filename, 'rt') as csvfile:
- in csv_uploader.py change print command on line# 83 to
  - print ('\t'.join(['OK', str(t['id']), t['name'], ]))
- in csv_uploader.py change print command on line# 86 to
  - print ('\t'.join(['ERROR', , t['name'], e.response.text]))
- in client.py change instances of "urlparse" to "urllib.parse"

Export CSV

export your tasks from the Google spreadsheet (assuming you created a new sheet in the shared doc Code-in Bulk Upload Spreadsheet) as CSV (File/Download as/CSV), but before that be sure to:
- make sure that the "categories" field is comma separated INTEGERs (see the "column definitions" sheet in Code-in Bulk Upload Spreadsheet)
- verify that your dashboard PROFILE email address is the EXACT same as what you entered in the "mentors" field in 'Code-in Bulk Upload Spreadsheet' (otherwise your uploaded tasks will have empty/missing mentor)

List Tasks through Commandline

see usage of list_tasks.py
- python list_tasks.py --help
get a list of tasks at the commandline
- python list_tasks.py --apikey [OSGeoKey]
  - should return something like:

    5126447435874304        gvSIG: Make a .....
    5172599543824384        gvSIG: Install.....
    5702068213907456        MapServer: Find and fix ....
    5723293673848832        gvSIG: Make a ....
    5761046167945216        gvSIG: Give a talk about ....
    5762611012435968        MapServer: Design a ....
    5765029615894528        MapServer: Install ....

Upload Tasks through Commandline

see usage of csv_uploader.py
- python csv_uploader.py --help
upload your csv at the commandline
- python csv_uploader.py -v --apikey [OSGeoKey] project-tasks.csv
  - should return something like:

  OK      6030299680997376        MapServer: Give a ....
  OK      5944469725642752        MapServer: Make a ....
  OK      5765029615894528        MapServer: Install ....
  OK      5702068213907456        MapServer: Find and fix ....
  OK      5770211091283968        MapServer: Fix ....

Google Code In 2019 Tasks

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