Dear people!
coala participated in Google Code In thanks to FOSSASIA this year.
We have always been active in engaging newcomers and teaching people about Open Source. It is only natural that we think and work towards helping pupils all over the world take this step and learn about contributing to open source. (If you are a teacher and reading this, reach out to us on coala.io/chat – we’re very interested in working with you and are also starting an initiative in germany to connect to schools.)
So let’s get some data: we had 37 successfully completed tasks. Our mentors wrote an impressive amount of 26 GCI tasks – some of which are multiple paged step by step guides that are still used for non GCI purposes.
Our star contributor Kaisar Arkhan is a GCI winner and Ridhwanul Haque made it as a finalist. We are proud of you! Kaisar Arkhan is actively helping us with our infrastructure to get status.coala.io greener every day!
An unimaginable huge part of the credit here goes to John Mark Vandenberg who mainly administered GCI for us and mentored a huge number of students by himself and helped us writing up the best possible tasks we could have. We are very thankful that we could build on his experience with the program and that we had his valuable input at every stage. Backstage, we had Mario Behling and Hong Phuc Dang from FOSSASIA working tirelessly so we could make this happen.
If you meet any of those – consider inviting them for a cup of coffee and thank them for what they are doing for our community, for FOSSASIA and for the Open Source education.