Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GCI-private] Announcing OSGeo’s 2019 Google Code-in winners

2020-02-19 Thread Rajat Shinde 
Congratulations to all the students! :)
Indeed, it was a great experience working with the students and the awesome
co-mentors and GCI Admins.

Regards,
Rajat

Rajat Shinde
http://home.iitb.ac.in/~rajatshinde

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:44 PM Cameron Green 
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
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for sponsorship for Pista ng Mapa 2020

2020-02-19 Thread Angelos Tzotsos 

Hi,

Also, please have a look at this document:
https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/osgeo_financial_guidance.pdf

Regards,
Angelos

On 2/19/20 5:52 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

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meetings .
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 11:32, maning sambale 
wrote:


Dear everyone,

We are organizing our annual Pista ng Mapa Conference on May 27-29, 2020.
Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) is a free-of-charge outreach activity
to generate public interest, advocate the use of open (geo) data,
promote free and open source software for geospatial (FOSS4G)
applications, gather and grow enthusiasts, users in the public and
private sector, and local communities in the Philippines.

https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/

We are looking for sponsors to the event:
https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/call-for-sponsors
is there a way for OSGeo to support?  Who do I ask?


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maning
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Looking for sponsorship for Pista ng Mapa 2020

2020-02-19 Thread maning sambale 
Dear everyone,

We are organizing our annual Pista ng Mapa Conference on May 27-29, 2020.
Pista ng Mapa (Festival of Maps) is a free-of-charge outreach activity
to generate public interest, advocate the use of open (geo) data,
promote free and open source software for geospatial (FOSS4G)
applications, gather and grow enthusiasts, users in the public and
private sector, and local communities in the Philippines.

https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/

We are looking for sponsors to the event:
https://pistangmapa.github.io/2020/call-for-sponsors
is there a way for OSGeo to support?  Who do I ask?


-- 
cheers,
maning
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