Hi everyone, I think the last Google Code-In was great for our community, it pushed us to improve our documentation, fix a lot of issues, add new features and helped us to grow our community. Moreover, one of the winners, Aarnav is still very actively helping us to improve and grow.
Last year the main complaints we had from students was that there weren't enough mentors to help out, it would be wonderful if this year we could fix this by expanding our pool of mentors! The mentor who will be voted the best by students will win a trip to San Francisco to meet the GCI winners at Google Headquarters in San Francisco and or Mountain View (this year we visited both offices). The privileged mentor chosen by students will stay in a great hotel, eat great food, attend to very interesting presentations given by Google employees about interesting topics (this year they talked about Kubernetees, Open source licenses, AI, self-drived cars and many more incredibly cutting-edge and interesting topics). This year they let us eat in the Mountain View HQ with the rest of the employees, it was a really nice experience, it felt a bit like being in "The Interns" movie EHEH. If you're interested in helping us out please read on, below is the official communication from the Google crew. Federico ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors List < [email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 9:35 PM Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Google Code-in 2018 is on - org apps open Sept 6-17 To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List < [email protected]> Hello GSoC mentors, We are pleased to announce Google Code-in (GCI) 2018 <http://g.co/gci>, the 9th consecutive year of our contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Please be aware GCI will start about a month earlier this year than in previous years - the contest starts for students October 23rd! 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 2018 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 *next week on Thursday, September 6th, and close less than 2 weeks later on Monday, September 17th. We will announce organizations on Tuesday, September 18th giving orgs 5 weeks to create their tasks before the contest begins on October 23rd. The major changes for GCI 2018 are: - Orgs will evaluate the 20 students completing the most tasks with their org when deciding on finalists and winners - Orgs will choose 6 finalists (instead of 5) - We have renamed the User Interface category to Design - Students will have to wait until Google reviews their Parental Consent form before they can claim their first task. This will slow things down but it is a requirement to be able to continue the program. - 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.). We are looking to continue the growth of this program and reach a record number of teenagers this year! Read more on today’s blog post <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html> . If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at [email protected] Best, Stephanie and Mary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
