Google Code In 2019

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Central page for administering OSGeo participation in Google Code In 2019

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 2018 contest here)
• Logo, flyer and presentation
• Roles and responsibilities of Students, Mentors and Admins

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

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 2019 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)
• 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

Administrators

• 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

Interested mentors / volunteers

• please fill out the Google form mentioned at Google Code In 2019 Mentors

Recommendations for Students

• https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2019_Recommendations_for_Students

Tasks

• available on the GCI Dashboard when the contest starts on 2 December 2019: https://codein.withgoogle.com/
• OSGeo's 2017 tasks: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/organization/5168183002529792/task/
• OSGeo's tasks from the 2018 contest: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2018/organization/5912217769738240/task/
• mentors: for bulk uploading tasks see steps here

Application

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

Lessons Learned

• 2018, 2017

Mentor Representation at the Grand Prize Winners Trip

• 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:

• 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