Dear OSGeo Community, a few days ago we had a virtual kickoff meeting about Google Code-in. [1]
* What is Google Code-in [2]: "Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 are invited to take part in Google Code-in: Our global, online, contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills they have. Mentors from our participating organizations lend a helping hand as participants learn what it’s like to work on an open source project." * How it works [3]: 1 Students search for a task that interests them and claim it. They have at least three days to complete it. 2 The student works on the task, getting guidance from mentors, if needed. 3 Once the student is ready, they submit their work for review through the contest website. 4 Mentors from the organization evaluate the work, provide feedback, and if it's complete, accept it! Otherwise, specific feedback is provided, and the student goes back to step #2! 5 Go to step #1 and repeat! * Example tasks may be: ** Coding - Add a new (simple) option to a GRASS python module - ... ** Documentation/Training - Make a video introducing the various projects under OSGeo - ... ** Outreach/Research - Write a fancy blog post about the new cool QGIS 3D capabilities - ... ** Quality Assurance - Add a Test Case for xyz to the GDAL testsuite - ... ** User Interface - Add icons for specific GIS task - ... * Time effort of the tasks should not be longer as 3 to 5 hours!!! Members of other orgs, which participated in the last years, have joint our kickoff meeting. Lessons learned from the last years' participations: * a strategic plan needed to generate a pool of tasks doable in 3-5 hours (beginner to advanced tasks); from ~50 up to ~100 tasks!! * a large enough mentor pool that the contest can going on over the period to tackle evaluations of about ~ 100 tasks!! If you are a willing mentor, just write to gsoc-admin(at)osgeo.org and a form to fill in will be sent to you. At the moment, the mentor pool seems not be large enough to apply for Google Code-in. What we have heard from other orgs already participated: Google Code-in is fun, nice results for e.g. outreach, though the workload has to be planned Kind regards Helmut (on behalf of the OSGeo GSoC admin team) OSGeo charter member [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017#Kickoff_.28virtual.29_meeting [2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ [3] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/how-it-works [4] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/example-tasks _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss