GCI students: Was a pleasure to mentor all. Congratulations for all your efforts
Regards On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:14 PM Cameron Green <cameron.gr...@tuks.co.za> wrote: > 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. > > 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 > > [1] https://codein.withgoogle.com > [2] https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-search=OSGeo > [3] https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners > > This message and attachments are subject to a disclaimer. Please refer to > http://www.it.up.ac.za/documentation/governance/disclaimer/ for full > details._______________________________________________ > GCI-private mailing list > gci-priv...@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gci-private > -- Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Salzmannstraße 44, 81739 München, Germany Vicky Vergara Operations Research eMail: vi...@georepublic.de Web: https://georepublic.info Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1 Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9 Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428 CEO: Daniel Kastl
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