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''Thank you a lot for being available as a GCI mentor! OSGeo mentors need to be able to guide students; hence mentors need to be experienced OSGeo contributors and need to know the community and "how things work". Could you please share some information of which specific OSGeo projects you have contributed to and worked on so far? How would you describe your areas of expertise within OSGeo? Are there any public OSGeo contributions you could link to (for example your OSGeo wiki page or your Github activity)? Are you involved in your local OSGeo chapter? This would help us to get a better idea. Thank you! And if you have not contributed to OSGeo yet, we encourage you to start contributing to OSGeo by checking out https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/ ! Thank you!''
 
''Thank you a lot for being available as a GCI mentor! OSGeo mentors need to be able to guide students; hence mentors need to be experienced OSGeo contributors and need to know the community and "how things work". Could you please share some information of which specific OSGeo projects you have contributed to and worked on so far? How would you describe your areas of expertise within OSGeo? Are there any public OSGeo contributions you could link to (for example your OSGeo wiki page or your Github activity)? Are you involved in your local OSGeo chapter? This would help us to get a better idea. Thank you! And if you have not contributed to OSGeo yet, we encourage you to start contributing to OSGeo by checking out https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/ ! Thank you!''
 
= 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
 
  
 
[[Category:Google Code In]]
 
[[Category:Google Code In]]

Latest revision as of 10:43, 28 January 2019

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Mentors

If you're interested in participating in the Code-In as a mentor of an OSGeo project (and creating tasks etc), please fill out the Google form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jDbLOiQpNbA4wldXo0N5cUDY6aDKkEIvouOL0osAyO0

(the following table will be populated from the above Google form, by the GCI admins only)

# Name Email Country OSGeo Project
1 Vicky Vergara vicky at georepublic dot de Mexico pgRouting, GEOS, OSGeoLive
2 Jeff McKenna jmckenna at osgeo dot org Canada MapServer, FOSS4G
3 Victoria Rautenbach victoria.rautenbach at gmail dot com South Africa GCI 2017
4 Frikan Erwee ferwee at gmail dot com South Africa PostGIS
5 Ian Turton ijturton at gmail dot com United Kingdom GeoTools, GeoServer
6 Aditya Pratap Singh adityapratap.singh28 at gmail dot com India pgRouting GSoC student
7 Cameron Green u15055452 at tuks dot co dot za South Africa GeoForAll (works with Victoria)
8 Martha Carmen Vergara Trejo mcvtkalli at gmail dot com México Geoinquietos México
9 Nicolas Roelandt roelandtn.pro at gmail dot com France OSGeoLive
10 Xuri Gong xurigoong at gmail dot com China GSoC 2018 student, PostGIS
11 Veronica Andreo veroandreo at gmail dot com Argentina GRASS GIS
12 Daniel Kastl daniel at georepublic dot de Japan pgRouting
13 Carol Garzon C.x.garzon at gmail dot com Columboa GRASS GIS
14 Sajid Pareeth spareeth at gmail dot com Netherlands GRASS GIS
15 Luca Delucchi lucadeluge at gmail.com Italy GRASS GIS
16 Rahul Chauhan rahulnitsxr at gmail.com India GSoC 2018 student, istSOS
17 Rohith Reddy rohithreddy2219@gmail.com India pgRouting
18 Assefa Yewondwossen assefay@gmail.com Ethiopia MapServer
19 Abhinav Kumar abby37kapoor@gmail.com India istSOS

Mentor Responsibilities

...to OSGeo gci-admin team

  • Communicate availability and interaction expectations
  • Inform gci-admin team when mentoring capacity will be reduced, as early as possible (e.g., family, health, vacation)
  • Inform gci-admin team when there is an issue with a student
    • Lacking communication, activity, visibility (MIA), or progress
    • Participant Agreement violations (e.g., plagiarism, harassment, fraud)
    • Bad fit or stepping down
    • Formally evaluate student participation

...to your Students

  • Help and/or teach the student how to
    • be a part of your community
    • communicate more effectively and in the open
    • work with your org’s preferred communication channel (IRC, Slack, etc)
    • use your org’s version control system
    • ask good questions and get answers to their questions
    • provide convincing technical argument and constructive discussion
    • be independently motivated and productive
    • solve difficult technical problems
  • Keep track of their progress, keep student informed as to their status
  • Give constructive feedback, be patient (particularly for GCI), and be respectful
  • Respond to questions within 24 hours (occasionally under 36 hours is ok)
  • Establish realistic work objectives and timeline expectations
  • Re-evaluate scope with student when significantly ahead of or behind expectations
    • Give them extra time on a task as warranted
  • Work with devs and community to facilitate acceptance of student work

Unknown Mentors

Boilerplate text to reply to unknown mentors:

Thank you a lot for being available as a GCI mentor! OSGeo mentors need to be able to guide students; hence mentors need to be experienced OSGeo contributors and need to know the community and "how things work". Could you please share some information of which specific OSGeo projects you have contributed to and worked on so far? How would you describe your areas of expertise within OSGeo? Are there any public OSGeo contributions you could link to (for example your OSGeo wiki page or your Github activity)? Are you involved in your local OSGeo chapter? This would help us to get a better idea. Thank you! And if you have not contributed to OSGeo yet, we encourage you to start contributing to OSGeo by checking out https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/ ! Thank you!