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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

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 * 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
+* Gitter (requires a Github account), https://gitter.im/OSGeo-GCI/community
-** how to connect: choose your favorite IRC client, or go directly through browser with [https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=osgeo-gsoc webchat]
 * Google's "Code-in Discuss" forum (mostly for general program questions, monitored by Google staff): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gci-discuss
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 * [[Victoria Rautenbach]] <libravatar email="victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "vrautenbach")
 * [[Rahul Chauhan]] <libravatar email="rahulnitsxr@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "rahulworld")
-* [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Camerongreen Cameron Green] <libravatar email="cameron.green@tuks.co.za"/> (IRC nickname: "CamGreen")
+* [[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''
+''Contact OSGeo's administrators: gci-osgeo at googlegroups.com''
 = Interested mentors / volunteers =
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 * our OSGeo application as a mentor organization, see: [[Google Code In 2019 Application]]
-= Communication Platform =
-* This year, OSGeo is going to use Gitter.im
-* Please search for the Channel 'OSGeo-GCI' or follow this link: https://gitter.im/OSGeo-GCI/community?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link
-* You are required to have a valid Github account in order to join the channel
 = Lessons Learned =
 * [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2018_Lessons_Learned 2018], [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Lessons_Learned 2017]
-<!-- = Mentor Representation at the Grand Prize Winners Trip =
+= Mentor Representation at the Grand Prize Winners Trip =
-* 1 mentor will represent OSGeo at the GCI Grand Prize Winners trip on June 24-27, 2019 (more information on the [https://sites.google.com/view/2018-grand-prize-trip/home trip site]
+* 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)
-* Please sign your name below if you are interested to represent OSGeo as a mentor at the GCI trip:
-** [[Rahul Chauhan]] <libravatar email="rahulnitsxr@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "rahulworld")
-**[[Frikan Erwee]] <libravatar email="ferwee@gmail.com"/> (IRC nickname: "FrikanRw")
-**[[User:Cvvergara]] <libravatar email="vicky@georepublic.de"/> (IRC nickname: "cvvergara")
-** your name here
-= Grand Prize Winner Trip Mentor Report =
+Deadline for signing up is [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=2019+GCI+winners+trip+lottery+&iso=20200217T16&p1=1440 17 February 2020 at 16:00 UTC]. To determine the winner, a lottery will be done using [https://www.randompicker.com Randompicker].
-Every year Google invites the Grand-Prize winners and their parents, and a mentor to it’s headquarters in San Francisco, California for a 4 days trip. I ([[Rahul Chauhan]] (rahulworld)) was offered the opportunity to go and represent OSGeo in the summit and meet these 2 brilliant folks in person. This report covers activities and other things that happened there.
-I was visiting Google San Francisco, meeting with the two winner students from Google Code-In as well as the students and mentors from the 14 other organisations participating in GCI.
+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:
-Our two winning students : Matthew Murzaku from the USA, and Shubham Sharma from India. Both our winners were amazing and did the tasks with great quality.  I am still surprised to see their work at such a young age. I am also hoping to see them as GCI mentors or GSoC students in the future.
+* [[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"/>
-=== Day 1 (Reception) ===
+== Result of the lottery ==
-I met with Matthew and Shubham and the other students and mentors in the Hotel lobby where there was a “meet and greet” reception in the evening. Students were given a list of traits (“Did I ride bike last week”, “can speak 3 or more languages fluently”, etc) and had a few minutes to find as much students and mentors as possible matching the traits. This was a good way for the students to get to know each other and the mentors a bit. We then stayed in the hotel lobby for some discussion or hacking.
-=== Day 2 (Full Day at Google headquarters in Mountain View) ===
+Sunveer Singh was selected to represent OSGeo at the GCI grand winners trip. Congratulations.
-This day was special since we were going to explore Googleplex and talk to Google Engineers at Google Cloud office. We were also offered $75 and $150 to mentors and students respectively to buy our choice of Google Merchandise. Students met  with Google employees of their home country and parted to have lunch with them. We had a line up of talks by great folks from Google.
-* Recruiting – Lauren Alpizar
-* Android OS: Ally Sillins
-* Cloud: Ryan Matsumoto
-* Chrome OS – Grant Grundler
-* Google Assistant – Daniel Myers
-* Google TensorFlow – Paige Bailey
-We had Dinner at the same office and then head back to the hotel.
-=== Day 3 (Fun Day in San Francisco) ===
+You can access the public record of the draw here, https://app.randompicker.com/protocol/653156x47412
-Probably the day most of us would remember. We had option to select one of Segway tour or cable car tour. We split into 2 groups for different activities. I Selected the Segway tour. We later met for lunch in a park by the sea, and boarded the bus once again to visit the Golden Gate bridge. The day ended with a Yacht course across the bay, and we could enjoy a beautiful view of San Francisco from there.
-=== Day 4 (Closing reception in Google SF office) ===
-On the last day, we had to go the office a bit early. We had breakfast in the office itself followed by the award ceremony (to grand prize winners). We were given 4 minutes per org time to share something if we wished. A lot of students shared their experience with GCI. we shared a little intro on OSGeo projects and my GCI experience as mentor and Metthew shared his favourite task experience. We had lunch after than and meanwhile a video crew was taking interview of people who signed up for it. I and Matthew went for video interview. We had left the office by 3pm after taking a lot of pictures in front of the San Francisco – Oakland bridge.
-=== People who made this possible ===
-Thanks to every student who participated. Everyone of you were amazing and I hope to see you all.
-Thanks to [[Victoria Rautenbach]], [[Jeff McKenna]] and Michael for being there when needed, and keeping the conversation alive. A very special thanks to [[Victoria Rautenbach]] for being the backbone of this. Of course all the mentors, Thank you for giving all the time and I hope to be a part of this along with all of you in the coming years.
--->
-= 2017 pages =
-* see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017
-= 2018 pages =
-* see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2018
 [[Category:Google Code In]]