Projects

The project goal can consist of several sub-goals or follow-up goals that can be adjusted to the progress of the student. It can include anything that helps you: Bug fixing, implementing small features, documentation, design, etc. Anything that allows the student to both apply her experience and grow with the challenge.

Coming up with a good definition of goals might be hard, taking into account that the student's level of skills is the one of a very newcomer. Don't be discouraged by that. We will work together with you in order to come up with a definition that works well.

To start defining your project, ask yourself the following two questions:

What kind of work should be done? Students come from different backgrounds, not every student is a programmer or wants to do programming work but design or documentation instead. To match a student with your project, please categorize the task, e.g.:

• Programming
• Documentation
• Design work
• ...

What is the required skill level?

• Beginner
• Advanced

Please keep in mind that RailsGirls Summer of Code students might not be experienced enough to work on too advanced projects.