Google Code-in/Admins/Email templates

Email templates used by organization administrators throughout the contest.

First email to mentors when the contest starts
''Example email from November 2017. [Mentors in "BCC" for privacy; org admins in "To"]''

'''Google Code-in Wikimedia Mentor info | Please read! (~4min)'''

Hi fellow Wikimedia Google Code-in (GCI) mentors!

As you might know, GCI just started today and will run for the next seven weeks. Once again a big "Thank You!" for mentoring for Wikimedia! This email includes some info that might be helpful.

INFO SESSION FOR FIRST TIME MENTORS:

If you have never mentored before and have questions or want to talk: We plan to have a "Google Hangout" session this Friday December 1st at 17:00 UTC, and also an IRC Q&A hour on Monday December 4th at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-devrel on Freenode. You will receive an invitation email. This is just an optional offer (and an experiment). Of course you are also welcome to contact the org admins (Sam Reed, Florian Schmidt, Srishti Sethi, John Mark Vandenberg, Andre Klapper) via email or IRC if you have comments / questions!

WORKFLOW (CREATING & REVIEWING YOUR TASKS):

Feel free to directly create your tasks on the GCI site (especially those of mentors who do not mentor any tasks yet!). An org admin will take another quick look at them before they get published. Org admins might not publish all your tasks immediately (as we don't want you to stress out having to review all your tasks within the same 24h hours, and we want to keep a good variety of tasks available). After a student has claimed a task and clicked "Submit for review", you will either have to click "Approve task" or "More work needed" (plus you can also give more time to the student). Please note: Reviewing a patch as "improvements needed' in Wikimedia Gerrit (or such) won't make the GCI site know that, so the task would remain as "Submitted for review" and your 36 hours keep running. Make sure to also set "More work needed" on the GCI site when appropriate so we don't get angry emails from Google that our mentors are too slow! :)

YOUR AVAILABILITY:

If some students are pushy and ping you for reviews because they understand GCI as a competition, feel free to remind them that patience is a virtue, that we are after quality and not quantity, and that we are humans having other jobs, real-life, or even have to sleep. Mentors do have 24h of time to review and reply to questions until Google will send a reminder email, and a maximum of 36h in total. However, if you plan to be off for a weekend or take holidays, please either do tell us (admins could also add more co-mentors to a task if you have somebody in mind), or when creating tasks simply put some "[DONT PUBLISH BEFORE 20171231]" prefix or such into the task summary.

MISC:


 * Please share your feedback / lessons learned on "organizational" aspects in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181738
 * As we'll need to choose "winners" at the end, please already share feedback on students in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182509 . That is a non-public task. I hope we've added all mentors to have access to that task. If you cannot, please send us an email!
 * To allow mentors to better reach Wikimedia GCI admins (e.g. to get a task published quickly, as pinging individuals on IRC does not really scale), we now have a mailing list to contact all Wikimedia org admins.
 * Google has also published some "Mentor Responsibilities" at https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/responsibilities . This page is linked from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors

YOUR FEEDBACK:

If there are any issues with students (such as plagiarism) please do let the org admins know. If you have any questions or comments, ask and tell us! And if you like mentoring students in Google Code-in, please tell others in our community - we can create more tasks (which we do need!) and add more mentors at any time in the next seven weeks.

Again, thank you a lot for joining these crazy seven weeks!

Contacting mentors without any tasks
'''Got any Wikimedia tasks for Google Code-in? Or something we can help with?'''

[Mentors in "BCC" for privacy; org admins in "To"]

Hi,

thanks for having registered as a Wikimedia mentor in Google Code-in! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors

From a quick look, it seems that there are no tasks on the GCI site yet that you're mentoring. Even if you start with only one or two tasks that you have in mind, please go ahead and create them!

If there is something unclear that we can help with, please let us know!

Thank you!