Central page for administering OSGeo participation in Google Code In 2018

Background

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
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

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

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

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

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

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

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 * [https://codein.withgoogle.com/ Google Code In main page]
 * [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/how-it-works How Google Code-in Works]
-* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/example-tasks Examples of Google Code-in Tasks]
+* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/example-tasks Examples of Google Code-in Tasks] (also see OSGeo's tasks from the 2017 contest [https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/organization/5168183002529792/task/ here])
 * [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/media Logo, flyer and presentation]
 * [https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/responsibilities Roles and responsibilities of Students, Mentors and Admins]