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 - we need a minimum of 25 tasks by 17 Sept, but we should aim to have between 150 and 500 tasks in total before the contest begins)
- 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.
- 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)
- 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
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