Dear OSGeo community, we're happy to announce that OSGeo has been ccepted as a mentoring organization in Google Code-in 2017 [1]!
"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 development. 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. Participants get to work on real software and win prizes from t-shirts to a trip to Google HQ!" [1] It's to emphasize that OSGeo is one of the 6 new orgs accepted in this contest as Google doesn't accept that many new orgs as in GSoC! The GCI timeline can be ssen in [2]: Thursday, October 26 Mentoring organizations announced Tuesday, November 28 (17:00 UTC) Contest opens for entries by student participants 2018 Monday, January 15 (17:00 UTC) Deadline to claim new tasks Wednesday, January 17 (17:00 UTC) All student work must be submitted; contest ends Thursday, January 18 (17:00 UTC) Mentoring organizations complete all evaluations of students’ work Wednesday, January 31 Grand Prize Winners and Finalists announced Basic information regarding our application can be found under [3]. If interested to volunteer as GCI mentor, then check [4]. More informations will come, stay tuned. Kind regards Helmut (on behalf of the GSoC/GCI admin team. [1] https://codein.withgoogle.com/ [2] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/timeline [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017 [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Mentors _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
