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 information 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