Google Code In 2018

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Top 5 OSGeo students from the GCI 2018 contest

Central page for administering OSGeo participation in Google Code In 2018

Background

• Google Code In program has been officially announced
• Google Code In main page
• How Google Code-in Works
• Examples of Google Code-in Tasks (also see OSGeo's tasks from the 2017 contest here)
• Logo, flyer and presentation
• Roles and responsibilities of Students, Mentors and Admins

Timeline

• Full timeline
• Sept 7 2018: organizations can start drafting application to be mentoring organizations
• Sept 17 2018: application deadline (exact time) for mentoring organizations (we should have mentors and tasks by then - we need a minimum of 25 tasks by 17 Sept, but we should aim to have between 150 & 500 tasks in total before the contest begins)
• Sept 18 2018: Mentoring organizations announced
• Oct 23 2018: Contest opens for entries by student participants (exact time)
• Dec 10 2018: Deadline for students to claim new tasks
• Dec 12 2018: All student work must be submitted; contest ends
• Dec 13 2018: Mentoring organizations complete all evaluations of students’ work
• Jan 7 2019: Grand Prize Winners and Finalists announced
• June (exact dates TBD): Grand Prize Winner’s Trip

Rules

• Contest rules
  • Ineligible individuals (according to the above rules):
    • a resident of a United States embargoed country, Brazil, Italy, or Quebec (see Google's reasons; link to the Italian law about online contests),
    • ordinarily resident in a United States embargoed country,
    • participating as a Mentor in the 2018 Contest, or
    • otherwise prohibited by applicable export controls and sanctions programs.

Communication

• OSGeo's gci-discuss mailing list, which is for students to ask general questions to OSGeo admins and mentors (subscribe at https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gci-discuss)
• IRC-channel: #osgeo-gsoc channel on freenode.net
  • how to connect: choose your favorite IRC client, or go directly through browser with webchat
• Google's "Code-in Discuss" forum (mostly for general program questions, monitored by Google staff): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gci-discuss

Administrators

• Jeff McKenna <libravatar email="jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com"/> (IRC nickname: "jmckenna")
• Victoria Rautenbach <libravatar email="victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "vrautenbach")

Contact OSGeo's administrators: gci-admin at osgeo dot org

Interested mentors / volunteers

• please fill out the Google form mentioned at Google Code In 2018 Mentors

Recommendations for Students

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2018_Recommendations_for_Students

Tasks

• available on the GCI Dashboard when the contest starts on 23 October: https://codein.withgoogle.com/
• see the archive of OSGeo's tasks from the 2017 contest: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/organization/5168183002529792/task/
• mentors: for bulk uploading tasks see steps here

Application

• our OSGeo application as a mentor organization, see: Google Code In 2018 Application

Kickoff (virtual) meeting

• 2018-09-13 at 16.00 UTC
• On IRC in the #osgeo-gsoc channel on irc.freenode.net (connect directly in your browser via webchat)
• agenda:
  • discuss ideas for tasks for the students (we need 25 tasks minimum for the application due 17 Sept)
  • plan to share mentor invites to all OSGeo projects

Lessons Learned

• 2018, 2017

Mentor Representation at the Grand Prize Winners Trip

• 1 mentor will represent OSGeo at the GCI Grand Prize Winners trip this June or July
• a travel stipend of 2200 USD will be available for flight & travel costs (Google will pay for 4 nights in hotel)
• Please sign your name below if you are interested to represent OSGeo as a mentor at the GCI trip:
  • your name here

2017 pages

• see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017