Hello, i would like to mentor. BR, giorgio. El dom., 27 oct. 2019 a las 20:21, Ed Cable (<[email protected]>) escribió:
> 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> > > -- Life is a chess game - Anonymous.
