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• resize image according to screen size ( fixed in 04c4ed7)
• improve view of donor list

The decision has been made to to scrap the FAQ, as it is merely duplicate info.

1. http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/faq/
   needs to be consolidate with http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/

2. http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/faq/sponsors/
   needs to be consolidate with http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/sponsorship-guidelines/

3. http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/faq/students/
   needs to be consolidate with http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/students/application/

I am assessing if there is anything in the FAQ sections that is NOT addressed in the corresponding guide. I will post the Sections here for posterity, and double checking, but am going to remove them now.

1. FAQ: Sponsors

What is Rails Girls Summer of Code (RGSoC)?
Is it a global initiative?
Who is running this?
Who can participate as a student?
Where will RGSoC take place?
I have more questions!

What is Rails Girls Summer of Code?

Rails Girls Summer of Code (RGSoC) helps Rails Girls students (and students from other, comparable initiatives) get into Open Source.

Just like in Google Summer of Code and Ruby Summer of Code, students will be paid so they’re free to work on Open Source projects for a few months. Unlike those programs, the Rails Girls Summer of Code is about helping students to further expand their knowledge and skills by contributing to a great Open Source project (rather than producing highly sophisticated code).

Is it a global initiative?

Yes! Rails Girls Summer of Code is happening worldwide and students from all over the world are welcome to apply.

Who is running this?

The initiative is a community-driven one, so RGSoC is run by volunteers all over the world. Amazing people helping as organizers, coaches, mentors, supervisors are making this happen. You can too: Send an email to [email protected] and join the international team!

Who can participate as a student?

We’re looking for women who have participated in any Rails Girls, RailsBridge, or similar newcomer workshop, have participate in a Ruby/Rails study group, or otherwise are getting started with Ruby/Rails as newcomers.

Unlike Google Summer of Code, no status as a student at a university is necessary, and there are certainly no degree or age limitations.

This initiative is focused on bringing more women into the world of open source. Men are not excluded however women are given priority.

Where will Rails Girls Summer of Code take place?

Since Rails Girls Summer of Code is an international initiative, there is no one “place” where everything happens. It depends on where students live and want to work

We will try to help find coaches as near as possible to a students location to avoid the student having to accomodate herself in a different city. Ideally coaches can provide a desk at their own workplace so students can sit next to them, ask questions and get support.

I have more questions!

Find the contact details here: Contact.

PS it's not a typo, the general FAQs section title was indeed called 'FAQ: Sponsors'

2. FAQ: Sponsors

What about VAT and tax deduction for my donations?
What happens if you don’t reach your goal or RGSoC gets cancelled?
What happens to any left-over budget from the 2014 Summer of Code?

What about VAT and tax deduction for my donations?

We don’t really know about tax laws everywhere in the world but according to our tax advisor: “Contributions and payments to Rails Girls Summer of Code are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. However, they may be deductible under other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (for US) or your local tax authority’s advice.”

A word about VAT. Sorry to bother you - we’ll keep a long story short. If you’re not from Europe (to be precise - from the EU) you can skip this. For all the others: we have to struggle with the odd EU VAT regulations for the above mentioned packages. While you fill out the form and entered an EU country we will show a field to ask for your VAT ID. If you have one please enter it - otherwise your contribution will be reduced by 19% VAT. You come from Germany? We will show you a field to ask if VAT is a recoverable tax for you. If so, we will add the 19% VAT to your contribution and ask you to complete your address data.

What happens if you don’t reach your goal or RGSoC gets cancelled?

If for some reason the Summer of Code can’t go ahead as planned, donors will be offered a refund of their donation. Alternatively you can decide to have your donation go to the Rails Girls organization to share your donation with other, future Rails Girls events across the globe.

What happens to any left-over budget from the 2013 Summer of Code?

Any money left over from the campaign will be saved for next year’s Rails Girls Summer of Code. Should there be no Summer of Code in 2015, the Rails Girls organization will decide how to best spend any left over donation money on other non-profit initiatives.

3. FAQ: Students

Who can participate as a student?
Where will RGSoC take place?
How much money will students receive?
Are students required to work full-time for all of the three months?
What if I don’t fit all the criteria stated on the student page?
How will you make sure that the students participate continuously in their projects?
What does an ideal project goal look like?

Who can participate as a student?

We’re looking for women who have participated in any Rails Girls, RailsBridge, or similar newcomer workshop, have participate in a Ruby/Rails study group, or otherwise are getting started with Ruby/Rails as newcomers.

Unlike Google Summer of Code, no status as a student at a university is necessary, and there are certainly no degree or age limitations.

This initiative is focused on bringing more women into the world of open source. Men are not excluded however women are given priority.

Where will Rails Girls Summer of Code take place?

Planet earth.

Rails Girls Summer of Code is an international initiative. Thus, it does not matter where a student or coach lives or where a company is located.

Coaches are supposed to be located as near as possible to students to avoid the student having to accommodate herself in a different city. Ideally coaches can provide a desk at their own workplace so students can sit next to them, ask questions and get support.

How much money will students receive?

Up to 1500 USD per month, for a period of three months.

Are students required to work full-time for all of the three months?

In order to immerse themselves and make a significant contribution to an Open Source project, we recommend that they do. However, if you feel you could achieve these ends working on a more limited time-frame, please explain in your application how you will make things work regardless, and we will consider your points.

What if I don’t fit all the criteria stated on the student page?

The criteria are not minimal standards, but rather recommendations for what we consider to be important for successful participation in a project. That said, we will not necessarily exclude anybody from applying, we will instead give points to each criterion fulfilled. The higher your score, the higher your chance of being selected given that there will most likely be more applicants than places. If you do not fulfil any particular criterion as stated (e.g. coach and student in the same location), but have found a way around this, please explain that to us in your application. We will consider your points and if convinced, give you a point for the criterion anyway.

How will you make sure that the students participate continuously in their projects?

We will require some reporting on progress, most probably a combination of informal (e.g. blog posts about lessons learned) and more formal reporting.

What does an ideal project goal look like?

Please have a look at our application guide for an in-depth explanation of what a good project goal looks like.

the image is a little small on a mobile device, so Beccy has provided us with an image that is split differently to improve the mobile experience.

The donate widget on the home page of railsgirlssummerofcode.org only shows the number, not the currency.
-> add $ currency

With the new landing page coming up, i also looked through all of the other pages and found some more stuff to change.

About page http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/

• remove Chat paragraph

What’s the policy on setting the sidebar?

• Pages that don’t have it: team (no space left), sponsorship packages (space left), sponsors page (no space left), campaign (space left)

Sidebar

• remove "Sponsorship Guidelines" item in About section
• remove "Become a Sponsor" item in Get Involved section

Sidebar -> Timeline

• adjust date writing according to new landing page
• set space between stars and text

CoC http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/code-of-conduct/

• remove the Trust Committee from last year.

Imprint http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/imprint/

• first Travis address is Prinzessinnenstr. -> change to Rigaer
• remove link to contact page. Change "For other means to contact us, see here." to "For any other requests, please contact us by email." (with summer-of-code@… address)

Footer

• change link "Sponsorship Guidelines" to "Sponsorship Packages & Guidelines" http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/guide/sponsorship/

http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/team/ doesn't load anymore:

That didn't work. Maybe a CORS thing?
– team.js:25

Make it look prettier when sharing via social media channels

http://campaign.railsgirlssummerofcode.org/donations/stats.json and http://campaign.railsgirlssummerofcode.org/donations.json are causing problems in Firefox 37

For some reason the sidebar has moved to the bottom in the single page view. :(

I migrated most of the pages to use the (new) bootstrap layout.
That means we can use all the bootstrap grid classes to build layouts. yay!
I already deleted the /css/ folder and put all things to /assets/stylesheets where we can use scss. amazing!
The legacy.scss contains the old css file but is not included on the newer pages. I try to have separate scss files to make it easier to find things.
Next step is deleting /js/. I already have all scripts in assets/javascripts/ but want to wait for a bit and see how it goes and if I broke something.
So far so good.

@lislis and myself have started working on the landing page of the RGSoC site i.e. the home page of the SoC site

This is the first step in a website-wide design change, where content will also be reworked and pared down, to be more succinct and focus more heavily on the target groups that will be coming to the website for information

• Mentors/Call for Open Source Projects
• Students
• Coaches
• People wanting to donate to the crowd sourcing campaign.

Attached is the 'mockup' image of the accepted design/layout change.

Inspired by https://www.mozilla.org, the new design will stand apart from previous design schemes, and more oft-used 'hero image' style. This is to differentiate ourselves, and create a distinct look and feel to SoC, as well as (and most importantly) focusing on the target groups visiting the site.

The previous/closed issue for this redesign project is
here;
rails-girls-summer-of-code/summer-of-code-2014#176

HitFox and SoundCloud are throwing us a "Day Off" party.. and it's going to be on a boat! ⛵ 🚢

IMPORTANT: LOCATION CHANGE

There has been a last minute change to the location. The new location is not quite as well connected, but still reachable by public transport

The new address is:

Scharfe Lanke 109 -131
13595 Berlin
https://goo.gl/maps/xq5Zu

There is the bus stop, located 10-15 min away walking:
Gatower Str./Weinmeisterhornweg
Bus 134, N34 and X34

That connects nicely with the S-Bahn stop:
S Heerstr. (Berlin)
S5, S75

Luckily It has a pretty high frequency, every 10 min.

Please confirm that you understand there is a new location by updating your comment with the following:

NEW LOCATION ACKNOWLEDGED

Everyone on this list will be pinged directly, but if you can spread the word to people just in case it would be appreciated.

Date: August 27th
Time: 15:00 - 21:00

Drinks and food will be provided. A BBQ will be prepared on board around 17:00 and I will make sure there will be veggie and vegan options :)

Hopefully we'll have nice, sunny weather. There is the opportunity to go swimming, so bring swimwear and towel!

RSVPS ARE NOW CLOSED, AND CATERING ORDERS PLACED

There will of course be non-alcoholic drinks available on the day.

At least we could delete the stuff that people now find in the menu:

That would make it all a bit more sleek and easier to read. Wdyt?

Ping @ApertoClaudi?

We want to wrap this year's Rails Girls Summer of Code program up with all of you wonderful people.
💜 💛 💚 ❤️ Some teams will present their projects again and share their summer with us, and we want to say thank you to our wonderful sponsors (e.g. amazing SoundCloud) with this. There will be healthy snacks as well as assorted drinks and a wide range of alcohol-free drinks.

Details:

When: 25th September, 7pm
Where: SoundCloud Office, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany

This event is organized under the Berlin Code of Conduct, please read this carefully and only attend if you agree and abide by this. We will enforce the CoC.

RSVP with a comment if you want to come. ✨

Hello friends!

I noticed that the sponsorship guidelines link is 404'ing in a few places:

1. https://github.com/rails-girls-summer-of-code/summer-of-code/blob/gh-pages/_includes/footer.html#L24
2. https://github.com/rails-girls-summer-of-code/summer-of-code/blob/gh-pages/_includes/content_sidebar.html#L10
3. https://github.com/rails-girls-summer-of-code/summer-of-code/blob/gh-pages/_layouts/default.html#L102

Looks like it should be pointing to /sponsors/sponsor-guidelines/ from a quick glance. No time for a pull request now, but I'll circle back later. Thought I'd let you know first though 💚

After clicking on the link to the team page, the page isn't loading (or rather, it's loading forever).
Seems to be a javascript issue, see attached screenshot.

Many of our permalinks/slugs are not scoped by a date or even a year. We can change the permalink format easy enough, but are we ok with breaking all potential links to our site?

Unfortunately, there is no way for gh-pages to return 301 redirects.

This is an issue for the landing page copy, and only copy (not related to the design), to keep the two discussions compartmentalised.

Just reduces clutter on the design discussions, but easily referenced when needed.

I'm just getting the discussion going, and perhaps we can sign off on copy, even while the design is being finalized. It may also help Claudi with her mockups to know the decided copy.

Our target audiences are limited to the following, so I figure the content should be focused purely on them (in no particular order);

• Students
• Sponsors/Donors
• Coaches
• Mentors

If you feel that that list does not reflect the appropriate people coming to the landing (e.g. do we want to also have a focus on grabbing the attention of coaching companies), please say.

HERO IMAGE

TEXT UNDER HERO IMAGE

• It seems very to the point and clear

TILES
(Left to right)
Tile 1

• Title: Submit an Application
• Blurb: take a look at our applicant guide for everything you need to know

Tile 2

• Title: Submit your project
• Blurb: Learn more about proposing or mentoring an open source project

Tile 3

• Title: Coach a Team
• Blurb: User your coding powers for good, and coach a team in the summer of code

Tile 4

• Title: Become a sponsor
• Blurb: take a look at our packages and perks

TIMELINE | HELPOUT
http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/

SPONSORS

Go for it! Suggestions, likes, dislikes etc.

Right now, it seems like the headings we use in different pages throughout the site are slightly inconsistent, especially when looking at the sidebar headings and comparing them to single pages (Roles, Guides, etc..) and to the campaign-related pages (eg. sponsors).
Since the defaults in variables.scss seem pretty sensible, I believe our problem is in how we use the headings throughout the site :) I'd like to look at every single page and make sure we use the correct heading everywhere, so it stays consistent.

The "Donate now" button in the sidebar is either cut off (Safari 7.1, Chrome 37) or a line-breaker (ff 33)

Right now, the site is just "average", with a lot of text that needs reworking.
For this, we need to define what our message is. We have several target groups (future students, sponsors, and volunteers) and so it's extremely important to have the main message be consistent and the wording be clear.

Since this is now the 4th year, we definitely have a lot of material to work with ie. stats from the previous years (to attract sponsors). Would love anyone's feedback on this!

When viewing the website on mobile and clicking on the burger icon, the navigation list appears, but it's not possible to scroll all the way to the bottom of the navigation.
Furthermore, from there there is no possibility to close the menu/get back to the home page — this should be changed to 1) either allow for the top bar to be shown at all times (so clicking on the logo takes you back to the homepage) or 2) add a menu point for the home page in the navigation list itself.

This should probably get fixed asap because it hinders proper usage on mobile devices. If you want to look into it, feel free to assign yourself to this issue/post a comment, otherwise I will be looking into it eventually. :)

The sponsors page is looking a little weird, it would be great to have more space at the top unter the header, a proper heading, or something that doesn't make the intro to the sponsors look so 'lost'.

If people read the blog, there seems to be no easy way to jump to the Activities stream. Can we add a link on summerofcode.org to the teams.summerofcode.org?
Like a navbar-item, or a banner?

Date: Friday, July 3rd 2015.
Where: DaWanda office, Windscheidstr. 18 10627 Berlin
When: starting at 7pm
What: BBQ

Please write a comment if you are joining! <3

The Become-a-sponsor/Timeline/Help-out section markup is broken on most pages (e.g. CC guide, mentor guide etc).

The campaign page doesn't make the best landing page at the moment.

I've tried coming up with a cleaner layout. WDYT?

The arrow in the sidebar for the current / active page has disappeared.
@lislis Is this a feature or a bug? :p

While working on 7141bb4 I noticed that the front page is served by landing.html, not index.html (I couldn't figure out why my changes in index.html wouldn't show after I rebuild my local jekyll site).

I don't know enough jekyll-foo to understand how landing gets aliased to index, but I do think that we should either merge the files, rename them or delete the one that's obsolete. It's a bit confusing as it is now. Halp needed 😄

we found that it's almost a crime that we don't have stickers yet and for the sake of our laptops we want to change that. @alicetragedy suggested taking the stamp we use for the certificates and play around with that one. We can also design more than one and have several stickers. Maybe one year-specific sticker and one general? or two? or three? :D

@ApertoClaudi any ideas on that? like where to put the year in on this ^ one? or maybe restructure it completely? all the feedback and ideas and drafts welcome <3

We need a Hall of Fame page! This page will include:

• sponsor logos (platinum and up)
• Teams that took part
• Projects contributed to
• Special moments/success stories/etc..

The initial idea is to create one page for each year (2013, 2014, 2015) with all the relevant information, and use a grid system to show all the information effectively. For example: using team logos/avatars when available, having direct links to blog posts for the "special moments" section.

UPD March 18, 2016 by mkalininait: Let's also add Coaching Companies there.

Since our blog is starting to grow quite a bit, I'd love to divide the posts into categories or add tags to them. For example, a category to see all the blog posts written by students (student-posts), one for conference-related stuff (conferences) and another for our tips-and-tricks or success-stories. This came to mind when browsing through (outdated) links on the Travis Foundation website. This would give outside people a possibility to directly link to stories of interest.
I think this is definitely not a priority, but think it would be cool to look into it. Happy to take over this and pair with someone if needed! 🎉

https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff

packages.md includes the different sponsor packages we offer, but the link when clicking on "Become a Sponsor" doesn't work. 🙈

It's a new season! \o/
We should probably update the timeline on the website soon, as we approach the end of the year and we start putting things in motion for next year.

Our font is a bit small and that's why @ApertoClaudi, @alexwllms and I have decided to rebrand everything to PAPYRUS! .... (BÄM!)

hahaha, no, but actually resizing it might be a first good step to make it more readable, especially for our blog (now that we have so amazing blog posts with @alicetragedy and @sareg0 writing ALL THE THINGS <3 )

http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog.xml

So I took a look at the site on a tablet, and here are a few things we could still improve.

These are all minor things, but worth fixing eventually.

• The burger menu has no margin or padding at the top, it makes it look very weird.
• The progress bar needs fixing on mobile, as it doesn't show all icons.

• When the sponsor packages are stacked, there is no space between the top and the bottom one.

• The donate button is way bigger than necessary in the page views. This is from the application guide, it comes from the sidebar and could probably also be hidden.
• Not sure if we need all the sidebar links at the bottom of each page; in theory we can access everything through the top menu.
• Which brings me to the next point: why not make a sticky menu at the top? It's not so bad on tablet, but on a mobile phone you have to do A LOT of scrolling if you have to get back up and navigate to another page.

Hi,

I would like to invite you to participate in my PhD research which is about contributing to Open Source to modernize Computer Science education. The survey will take few minutes but will be of great value to my research as i need direct evidences from OS users like you, plz, to do my research.

I hope you will be happy to participate by clicking on the related link to take the suitable survey & feel free to answer any number of questions (will be much help if you can answer all):

• Here you are the link to the student's survey: https://www.surveys.unsw.edu.au/f/161584/5d1e/
• Here you are the link to the mentor's survey: https://www.surveys.unsw.edu.au/f/161600/2b06/
• Here you are the link to the educator's survey: https://www.surveys.unsw.edu.au/f/161596/1191/
• Here you are the link to other experts & professionals from the OS industry: https://www.surveys.unsw.edu.au/f/161607/11a8/

"Please support my PhD research by circulating this invitation and mention it to your friends to reach educators, students, mentors & other experts & professional interested in the OS field"

Many thanks in advance,,
Nada Alasbali
PhD of Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW

the link in the menu to the Code of Conduct should be pointing to: http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/code-of-conduct/

Given the current inconsistency of the styling (see #179) I think adding a style guide for the future could really help. Maybe we could even use Living Style Guide since it's one of our RGSoC projects :)

http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/about/

this is still missing as far as i can see. some hints and info about the process would be important to point out to students.

We are missing information about the volunteer teams in the student guide; it should at least be mentioned and explained in a couple of sentences, as we mention them eg. in the application.
An explanation of what they do/how they are different to "normal" teams should probably also be added to our "Roles" page.