[00:57:02] <Ursula>	 Yes.
[06:49:41] <legoktm>	 > We are pleased to announce Google Code-in (GCI) 2018, the 9th consecutive year of our contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Please be aware GCI will start about a month earlier this year than in previous years - the contest starts for students October 23rd!
[06:49:44] <legoktm>	 wheeeeeeee
[09:13:30] <Nemo_bis>	 legoktm: ouch, no more "it's in winter anyway"
[11:06:44] <egbe>	 Hi I'm Linda and I'm new here please how do I get started
[11:18:09] <bawolff>	 egbe: Hi Linda
[11:18:25] <bawolff>	 egbe: What sort of things are you interested in?
[11:19:11] <egbe>	 I'm interested in contributing code to open source
[11:19:50] <bawolff>	 Awesome. Which programming languages are you familiar with?
[11:23:49] <bawolff>	 egbe: Its ok if your new to programming or not sure
[11:24:21] <bawolff>	 egbe: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker has some generic information on it
[11:24:58] <bawolff>	 If there's something specific you're interested in, I can make a more specific suggestion than what's on that page
[11:25:30] <egbe>	 I'm familiar with HTML, CSS and a little bit of PHP
[11:29:23] <bawolff>	 egbe: Cool. MediaWiki (The software that powers wikipedia) is mostly written in PHP
[11:29:49] <bawolff>	 egbe: Generally a good first step is to try and install MediaWiki on your own computer, so you have something you can test on
[11:31:13] <bawolff>	 egbe: See the docs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Download_for_development or the docs on vagrant
[11:32:07] <egbe>	 Ok thanks very much