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)
• 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

• Victoria Rautenbach <libravatar email="victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "vrautenbach")

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

• 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/
• see the archive of 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

Kickoff (virtual) meeting

• Admins to select a date and time
• On IRC in the #osgeo-gsoc channel on irc.freenode.net (connect directly in your browser via webchat)
• agenda:
  • discuss ideas for tasks for the students (we need 25 tasks minimum for the application due 28 Oct)
  • plan to share mentor invites to all OSGeo projects

Lessons Learned

• 2018, 2017

2017 pages

• see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017

2018 pages

• see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2018