Google Code In 2018

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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
• 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 - "between 150 to 500 tasks")
• 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

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")

Interested mentors / volunteers

• 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/
• mentors: for bulk uploading tasks see steps here

Application

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

Lessons Learned

• see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Lessons_Learned

2017 pages

• see https://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Google_Code_In_2017