Google Code-in officially starts for students on November 28. Students are encouraged to learn about the participating organizations ahead of time and can get started by clicking on the links below:
- Apertium: rule-based machine translation platform
- BRL-CAD: computer graphics, 2D and 3D geometry modeling and computer-aided design (CAD)
- Catrobat: visual programming for creating mobile games and animations
- CCExtractor: open source tools for subtitle generation
- CloudCV: building platforms for reproducible AI research
- coala: a unified interface for linting and fixing code, regardless of the programming languages used
- Drupal: content management platform
- FOSSASIA: developing communities across all ages and borders to form a better future with Open Technologies and ICT
- Haiku: operating system specifically targeting personal computing
- JBoss Community: a community of projects around JBoss Middleware
- LibreHealth: aiming to bring open source healthcare IT to all of humanity
- Liquid Galaxy: an interactive, panoramic and immersive visualization tool
- MetaBrainz: builds community maintained databases
- Mifos Initiative: transforming the delivery of financial services to the poor and the unbanked
- MovingBlocks: a Minecraft-inspired open source game
- OpenMRS: open source medical records system for the world
- OpenWISP: build and manage low cost networks such as public wifi
- OSGeo: building open source geospatial tools
- Sugar Labs: learning platform and activities for elementary education
- SCoRe: research lab seeking sustainable solutions for problems faced by developing countries
- Systers: community for women involved in technical aspects of computing
- Ubuntu: an open source operating system
- Wikimedia: non-profit foundation dedicated to bringing free content to the world, operating Wikipedia
- XWiki: a web platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm
- Zulip: powerful, threaded open source group chat with apps for every major platform
These mentor organizations are hard at work creating thousands of tasks for students to work on, including code, documentation, user interface, quality assurance, outreach, research and training tasks. The contest officially starts for students on Tuesday, November 28th at 9:00am PST.
You can learn more about Google Code-in on the contest site where you’ll find Contest Rules, Frequently Asked Questions and Important Dates. There you’ll also find flyers and other helpful information including the Getting Started Guide. Our discussion mailing list is a great way to talk with other students, mentors and organization administrators about the contest.
By Josh Simmons, Google Open Source
