Hi everyone, I am new to OpenWisp. I would like to contribute to OpenWisp as well as would be greatful if I get the opportunity to be a mentor for the upcoming Google Code In. What exactly is the procedure for the application of mentor ?. Am i eligible for it ?
Open Source Experience -- I currently did GSOC '18 with Oppia. Here is the link <https://medium.com/@aashish.gaba097/introduction-42cf0a4e0286> to my work. I would love to gain experience by contributing to OpenWIsp. Thanks, Aashish On Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 2:21:54 AM UTC+5:30, Federico Capoano wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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] <javascript:>> > > > 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] <javascript:> > > 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.
