Central page for administering OSGeo participation in Google Code In 2019

Background

Timeline

Full timeline
Oct 10 2019: Organizations can start drafting application to be mentoring organizations
Oct 28 2019: 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)
Oct 29 2019: Mentoring organizations announced
Dec 2 2019: Contest opens for entries by student participants (exact time)
Jan 21 2020: Deadline for students to claim new tasks (exact time)
Jan 23 2020: All student work must be submitted; contest ends (exact time)
Jan 24 2020: Mentoring organizations complete all evaluations of students’ work (exact time)
Jan 30 2020: Mentoring organizations submit list of Winners and Finalists (exact time)
Feb 10 2020: 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)
Gitter (requires a Github account), https://gitter.im/OSGeo-GCI/community
Google's "Code-in Discuss" forum (mostly for general program questions, monitored by Google staff): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gci-discuss

Victoria Rautenbach <libravatar email="victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "vrautenbach")
Rahul Chauhan <libravatar email="rahulnitsxr@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "rahulworld")
Cameron Green <libravatar email="cameron.green@tuks.co.za"/> (IRC nickname: "CamGreen")
Frikan Erwee <libravatar email="ferwee@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "FrikanRw")

Contact OSGeo's administrators: gci-osgeo at googlegroups.com

our OSGeo application as a mentor organization, see: Google Code In 2019 Application

1 mentor will represent OSGeo at the GCI Grand Prize Winners trip in either May 31 - June 4 or June 21-25
a travel stipend of 2200 USD will be available for flight & travel costs (Google will pay for 4 nights in hotel)

Deadline for signing up is 17 February 2020 at 16:00 UTC. To determine the winner, a lottery will be done using Randompicker.

If you think that you will be able to get a USA visa and would like an oppurtuntiy to attend the GCI trip, please sign add your name below:

Sunveer Singh was selected to represent OSGeo at the GCI grand winners trip. Congratulations.

You can access the public record of the draw here, https://app.randompicker.com/protocol/653156x47412

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 * 1 mentor will represent OSGeo at the GCI Grand Prize Winners trip in either May 31 - June 4 or June 21-25
 * 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
+Deadline for signing up is [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=2019+GCI+winners+trip+lottery+&iso=20200217T16&p1=1440 17 February 2020 at 16:00 UTC]. To determine the winner, a lottery will be done using [https://www.randompicker.com Randompicker].
+If you think that you will be able to get a USA visa and would like an oppurtuntiy to attend the GCI trip, please sign add your name below:
+* [[Cameron Green]] <libravatar email="cameron.green@tuks.co.za"/>
+* [[Sunveer Singh]] <libravatar email="singhsunveer54@gmail.com"/>
+* Luqmaan Hassim
+* [[Abhinav Kumar]] <libravatar email="abby37kapoor@gmail.com"/>
+== Result of the lottery ==
+Sunveer Singh was selected to represent OSGeo at the GCI grand winners trip. Congratulations.
+You can access the public record of the draw here, https://app.randompicker.com/protocol/653156x47412
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