?Congratulations! Big thanks to all that contributed to this great experience. 
We'll try to be back in 2019's edition.


Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/
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De: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> en nombre de Victoria Rautenbach 
<victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com>
Enviado: miércoles, 09 de enero de 2019 2:04
Para: osgeolist; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcing OSGeo’s 2018 Google Code-in winners

Announcing OSGeo’s 2018 Google Code-in winners

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 18 community members that contributed 132 tasks 
from 10 projects (e.g. istSOS, GRASS GIS, GeoServer, MapServer, pgRouting, 
PostGIS, and Leaflet) and also OSGeo and FOSS4G.

The 2018 Google Code-in (GCI) took place 23 October - 12 December 2018 and 
OSGeo had 218 students that completed a task with us. These 218 students 
completed 471 tasks [2]. This is slightly down from last year, but this can be 
contributed to the change in dates of the competition. 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 2018 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):

  *   Mattoopackoo
  *   ShubhamSharama

OSGeo’s Google Code-in finalists (who receive Google hoodies) are:

  *   Armaan
  *   Flash
  *   Shivam Rai
  *   SunveerSingh

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 2018


[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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