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Title: Announcing OSGeo’s 2019 Google Code-in winners

Google Code-in (GCI) is an annual online competition aimed at introducing pre-university students (13-17 years old) to open source projects, development and communities, through short 3-5 hour tasks [1]. As opposed to the Google Summer of Code program, in GCI students are not selected by the organizations, but freely pick up tasks from one or more mentoring organizations and complete them. Students qualify for different prizes (i.e. certificate, t-shirts, hoodies and the grand prize of visiting Google’s main headquarters in San Francisco) depending on the number of tasks they complete. During GCI, OSGeo project members have a unique opportunity to interact with pre-university students and to encourage them to become part of their respective projects.

The OSGeo team consisted of 16 community members that contributed 110 tasks from 11 projects (e.g. istSOS, GRASS GIS, GeoServer, pgRouting, PostGIS, GeoNode and OpenLayers) and also OSGeo, FOSS4G and GeoForAll.

The 2019 Google Code-in (GCI) took place 2 December 2019 - 21 January 2020 and OSGeo had 401 students that completed a task with us. These 401 students completed 976 tasks [2] which is the most amount of completed tasks to date for OSGeo! This is an improvement from last year and this can be contributed to the change in dates of the competition going back to the original dates. The completed tasks range from designing badges for the OSGeo website, to tests for GRASS GIS, or bug fixes for PostGIS. These tasks might seem simplistic in some cases, but the combined results are of great value to OSGeo.

2017/2018 GCI finalists for OSGeo

OSGeo is pleased to announce the 2019 Google Code-in Grand Prize winners, who each receive a free trip to Google headquarters in California, along with a parent/guardian, are students (note that these are the student’s account names, due to privacy concerns):

OSGeo’s Google Code-in Winners: • Navya Garg • Pranay

OSGeo’s Google Code-in Runners Up: • Dhanus SL • Lucifer

OSGeo’s Google Code-in finalists (who receive Google hoodies) are: • TanvirSingh • anishagnihotri

See here: https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners the winners from all organisations [3].

Congratulations to the winners and finalists! But also a special congratulations to all students that received a certificate and/or t-shirt. We greatly appreciate your contribution to OSGeo!

Lastly, thank you to the OSGeo mentors for the time they spent on the tasks and mentoring the students. Without your commitment this would not have been possible.

Thank you to everyone involved, mentors and students.

Regards, OSGeo GCI admins 2019

Links: [1] https://codein.withgoogle.com [2] https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-search=OSGeo [3] https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners

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-=== Title: OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community ===
+=== Title: Announcing OSGeo’s 2019 Google Code-in winners ===
-After participating many years in the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently participated for the first time in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a contest held each year to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to Open Source software development. Since 2010, over 4500 students in 99 countries have completed work in the contest. Students compete to win prizes of certificates, t-shirts, hoodies, and a possible free trip to Google headquarters in California, U.S.
+Google Code-in (GCI) is an annual online competition aimed at introducing pre-university students (13-17 years old) to open source projects, development and communities, through short 3-5 hour tasks [1]. As opposed to the Google Summer of Code program, in GCI students are not selected by the organizations, but freely pick up tasks from one or more mentoring organizations and complete them. Students qualify for different prizes (i.e. certificate, t-shirts, hoodies and the grand prize of visiting Google’s main headquarters in San Francisco) depending on the number of tasks they complete. During GCI, OSGeo project members have a unique opportunity to interact with pre-university students and to encourage them to become part of their respective projects.
-Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many students have with Open Source, the contest is designed to make it easy for students to jump right in. Open Source organizations chosen by Google provide a list of tasks for students to work on during the seven week contest period; each task should take only 3 to 5 hours to complete, and can involve not only coding but also important community work such as documentation, outreach, communication, quality assurance/testing, and user interface design. A unique part of the contest is that each task has mentors from the organization assigned, should students have questions or need help along the way.
+The OSGeo team consisted of 16 community members that contributed 110 tasks from 11 projects (e.g. istSOS, GRASS GIS, GeoServer, pgRouting, PostGIS, GeoNode and OpenLayers) and also OSGeo, FOSS4G and GeoForAll.
+The 2019 Google Code-in (GCI) took place 2 December 2019 - 21 January 2020 and OSGeo had 401 students that completed a task with us. These 401 students completed 976 tasks [2] which is the most amount of completed tasks to date for OSGeo! This is an improvement from last year and this can be contributed to the change in dates of the competition going back to the original dates. The completed tasks range from designing badges for the OSGeo website, to tests for GRASS GIS, or bug fixes for PostGIS. These tasks might seem simplistic in some cases, but the combined results are of great value to OSGeo.
 [[Image:GCI-2017-results.png|thumb|right|333px|2017/2018 GCI finalists for OSGeo]]
-OSGeo administrators began working on OSGeo’s first application to Google back in early November.  It was a huge undertaking, as mentor organizations create hundreds of tasks for the potentially thousands of students to work on during the contest period and are responsible for assigning mentors to help students with questions and to review students’ work on the tasks.
+OSGeo is pleased to announce the 2019 Google Code-in Grand Prize winners, who each receive a free trip to Google headquarters in California, along with a parent/guardian, are students (note that these are the student’s account names, due to privacy concerns):
-OSGeo mentors and admins prepared 176 tasks related to its geospatial projects like GeoForAll, GeoServer, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, pgRouting, and QGIS.
-This year’s contest was held from 28 November 2017 until 17 January 2018, and had almost triple the number of students of the previous year.  A total of '''279 young students completed 649 tasks for OSGeo''' (530 students in total examined OSGeo tasks). OSGeo students were from many countries including: India, Poland, Pakistan, Thailand, United States, Russia, Germany, Cameroon, Singapore, Spain, Romania, UK, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Canada, and others.  The students were guided and supported by a great team of OSGeo mentors.
-OSGeo’s GCI mentors and admins evaluated the results of the students according to the following factors: creativity, thoroughness, and quality of work. An additional criterium was the contribution to the community by interacting with and helping others.
-OSGeo is pleased to announce the Google Code-in '''Grand Prize winners''' (who each receive a free trip to Google headquarters, along with a parent/guardian) are students:
+OSGeo’s Google Code-in Winners:
+•	Navya Garg
+•	Pranay
-* '''Sunveer Singh''' (India)
+OSGeo’s Google Code-in Runners Up:
-* '''Jerry Huang''' (United States)
+•	Dhanus SL
+•	Lucifer
 OSGeo’s Google Code-in finalists (who receive Google hoodies) are:
+•	TanvirSingh
+•	anishagnihotri
-* '''Ethan Zhao''' (United States)
+See here: https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners the winners from all organisations [3].
-* '''Neev Mistry''' (United States)
-* '''Shailesh Kadam''' (India)
-See here: https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners the winners from all organizations.
+Congratulations to the winners and finalists! But also a special congratulations to all students that received a certificate and/or t-shirt. We greatly appreciate your contribution to OSGeo!
-OSGeo wholeheartedly congratulates the winners and finalists. We also thank all students working on OSGeo’s tasks for their great contributions to the OSGeo community.
+Lastly, thank you to the OSGeo mentors for the time they spent on the tasks and mentoring the students. Without your commitment this would not have been possible.
-All this wouldn’t be possible without the guidance by our mentors. OSGeo is deeply grateful for their hard work over 2 months of the contest.  We are also grateful to Google for welcoming OSGeo into the contest as a GCI mentoring organization for the first time.
+Thank you to everyone involved, mentors and students.
-This has been a magical and fun experience, seeing the enthusiasm of the students for OSGeo, and how that fun trickles through the entire community. Thank you to everyone involved.
+Regards,
+OSGeo GCI admins 2019
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+Links:
-OSGeo GCI admins 2017/2018
+[1] https://codein.withgoogle.com
+[2] https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-search=OSGeo
+[3] https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners
-Links:
-* https://codein.withgoogle.com/
-* https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-search=OSGeo
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