Hello everybody, congratulations to both students and mentors for their effort to learning new things and helping others to learn new things and of course to bring the OpenWISP project forward!
I hope to see a lot of you again on the mailing list and in the chat! Greetings, Oliver Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2018 13:07:49 UTC+1 schrieb Federico Capoano: > > Dear friends, > > the Google Code-In 2018 contest is almost over (only about 5 hours > remaining), and we got excellent results, both in qualitative terms and in > quantitative terms. > > I want to thank all the students who participated with us and put a lot of > effort, learned a lot and have also learned to be patient with waiting for > their mentors to find time to review their work and help. > > A special thanks goes to all our mentors that made this possible, students > you should be really thankful to them! > > *I want to announce that we want to invite some of our best students to > become part of our organization on github* so they can keep contributing > and be recognized for the work they do. > Since a most of the students that contribute during the Google Programs do > not continue contributing afterwards, I do not want to keep adding > "dormient" (eg: inactive) members to our organization, so I encourage the > students who really care about the project to keep participating in their > free time, as the rest of us here. > I think open source is a passion, caring to share your work for the > benefit of humanity, not only something you do if you are rewarded with > prizes (as in GCI) or money (as in GSoC). > Those who will keep contributing will become part of our organization and > will gradually receive more permissions to manage things on their own if > they want to do so. > We mentors will keep helping students, which after GCI won't be students > anymore but contributors and peers, although with a more relaxed pace. > > In the next weeks we will slow down a bit in order to rest and recover, > this GCI was exhausting, we had about *950 students* who completed at > least 1 task with *a total of over 1900 tasks completed*. > We are *just 9 mentors*, what we achieved is really *incredible*, we > would never have achieved this without *Alessia Ventani* and *Ajay > Tripathi*, just the two of them mentored over 1500 tasks! > *So a super special mega thanks must go to them!* > > And of course *thanks to Google for facilitating this*. > > Keep up the good work friends! > 2 more years at this rhythm and I believe the OpenWISP community will have > achieved most of the goals of the project > <http://openwisp.io/docs/general/values.html#goals>! > > Best regards > Federico Capoano > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
