Hello Mifos and Apache Fineract communities, The Google Code-In Program will be taking place again for the 10th consecutive year.
This is Google's program to help introduce pre-university students to open source where students compete to complete as many bite-sized tasks (3 to 5 hours) as possible across the following buckets: Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, or User Interface. Please click the links below if you're not familiar with the program. The program is once again running during its usual time frame from Dec 2 to January 23. The Mifos Initiative is applying and aiming to participate for our fifth time in the program, having done so in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018 through DIAL as our umbrella organization. As a reminder, this is a very intensive, hands-on program that requires frequent interaction with the students/ As James noted last year, we fully rely on the active leadership and involvement of members of the community to successfully participate. We strive to be involved with GCI not only for the benefit of education and outreach around OS to pre-university students but it plants the seeds of future contributors to the organization, yields countless valuable contributions not just in terms of code but research, marketing, testing, and design, and also is a great next step for deepening the involvement of our past GSOC participants in the community. For all of the partners across our ecosystem, listing out tasks for GCI and helping to mentor them can be a great first step towards more active involvement with the community, you can also get a lot of great market research and other nice to have tasks completed by diligent and dedicated students. If interested in mentoring, please fill out this form here: *https://forms.gle/aXVNCndoLXVBJexe9 <https://forms.gle/aXVNCndoLXVBJexe9>* You can also begin listing tasks at https://bit.ly/31OMBib or creating issues in the respective github repositories, being sure to tag issues with the label, "GCI 2019" If Mifos is selected, Rahul and Sanyam Goel will be taking the lead as org admins this year with my support. Chirag Gupta will continue to serve as our super-mentor, helping to interact with students only a past GCI grand prize winner could. We will have a community-wide meeting if selected to discuss task creation for which we'll have 5 weeks to get several hundred tasks created! Please read our wrap-up post from 2017, http://mifos.org/blog/2017-google-code-in-wrap-up/ to learn abbout what GCI is like. Cheers, Ed ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'Stephanie Taylor' via Google Code-in Mentors < [email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 4:05 PM Subject: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2019 Org apps open Oct 10-28, Contest starts for students Dec 2nd To: Google Code-in Mentors <[email protected]> Hello GCI mentors, We are pleased to announce Google Code-in (GCI) 2019 <http://g.co/gci>, the 10th!!! consecutive year of our contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Please be aware GCI will start about a month later than last year (back to the timeline we have been using for most of the first 8 years of the contest) - the contest starts for students Monday, December 2nd. The GCI timeline, FAQs, Rules and flyers have been updated on the contest site <http://g.co/gci>. Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2019 program please start thinking about the tasks you would like students to work on and reach out to your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for the program. *Organization applications open for GCI orgs* on Thursday, October 10th, and close 2.5 weeks later on *Monday, October 28th*. We will announce organizations on Tuesday, October 29th, giving orgs 5 weeks to create their tasks before the contest begins on December 2nd. The only major change for GCI 2019 is the Finalists selections at the end of the contest. When orgs select their 6 Finalists we will ask you to further rank the 6 Finalists into 3 groups: Select 2 as Grand Prize Winners (receive grand prize trip, GCI backpack, GCI jacket, tshirt and certificate) Select 2 as Runners-up (receive GCI backpack, GCI jacket, tshirt and certificate) Select 2 as Finalists (receive GCI jacket, tshirt and certificate) We implemented this from your feedback over the last couple of years that you often had runners-up who didn't get the Grand Prize trip that you wish could get an additional prize of some sort to- so now that's what we're doing.: ). Again please be very aware that no tasks asking for personal information about students will be allowed (this includes tasks asking for students to introduce themselves with info like what country they are from, or photos of the students, etc.). Read more on today’s blog post <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/09/google-code-in-2019-is-right-around_23.html> . If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at [email protected] Best, Stephanie GCI Program Lead -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code-in Mentors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/08678caf-6dcf-4168-9c13-38051450f0ac%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/08678caf-6dcf-4168-9c13-38051450f0ac%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- *Ed Cable* President/CEO, Mifos Initiative [email protected] | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
