[Talk-us] Any interest in Google Code-In?

[Ian Dees]

That's a good idea. Is there a list of preset or validation test suggestions
out there already? Are there smaller-sized JOSM plugins that could be
written?

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:

> Perhaps creation of additional JOSM presets/validation tests and fixes?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google
> asked
> >> us (the organizations that participated in Summer of Code) to also
> >> participate in the Google Code-In project. The Code-In project is
> similar to
> >> the Summer of Code but for 13-18 year olds. The tasks are meant to be
> much
> >> smaller: the students are supposed to sign up for one task at a time,
> they
> >> get $100 for every 3 tasks they complete (up to $500).
> >> I talked a bit with Carol (the Google woman running the project) who
> liked
> >> me suggestion for putting up a bunch of mapping-related projects. For
> >> example, a project could be "map 100 restaurants in your area" or "map
> all
> >> stores in mall X".
> >
> > I'm not in favour of this idea.  Mapping for pay will encourage gaming
> > the system for money and ripping data from other sources.  It will
> > also create a group of mappers who will stop when the money runs out
> > and potentially resentment among the mappers who have mapped thousands
> > of restaurants for the love of mapping or the love of their town.
> >
> > If there are bite-sized code contributions, let's have a look at that.
> >  GSoC already has retention issues in the larger projects.  Not every
> > GSoC student continues with their project after the summer period.  I
> > see this as a larger problem in a project with a lower initial barrier
> > to entry.
> >
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