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Revision as of 00:38, 16 October 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.
- Ineligible individuals (according to the above rules):
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-admin at osgeo dot org
Interested mentors / volunteers
- please fill out the Google form mentioned at Google Code In 2019 Mentors
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