Thanks Oliver :-)

here are the final results!

https://twitter.com/openWISP/status/1073267406779400193
https://www.facebook.com/OpenWISP/posts/1855618721213861

Out of 3123 students in the entire Google Code-In program, we mentored 950 
who completed at least 1 task with us, that's 30.48%!

I didn't think we would have been able to mentor so many students. 
Think about the impact we can have as a community if we find and train more 
mentors!
I believe this is really important because fresh lymph and fresh views are 
needed to bring innovation in the open source networking world if we want 
to achieve it in a bottom-up fashion, so that's why I put so much effort in 
this program and I am very satisfied and happy of the results we have 
achieved.

We also collected a lot of useful feedback that will help us to improve 
further, I will set some time aside to publish the results of that survey 
in the following weeks.

Thanks again to everyone who participated actively!
Federico


On Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 9:40:01 PM UTC+1, Oliver Kraitschy wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> congratulations to both students and mentors for their effort to learning 
> new things and helping others to learn new things and of course to bring 
> the OpenWISP project forward!
>
> I hope to see a lot of you again on the mailing list and in the chat!
>
> Greetings,
> Oliver
>
> Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2018 13:07:49 UTC+1 schrieb Federico Capoano:
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> the Google Code-In 2018 contest is almost over (only about 5 hours 
>> remaining), and we got excellent results, both in qualitative terms and in 
>> quantitative terms.
>>
>> I want to thank all the students who participated with us and put a lot 
>> of effort, learned a lot and have also learned to be patient with waiting 
>> for their mentors to find time to review their work and help.
>>
>> A special thanks goes to all our mentors that made this possible, 
>> students you should be really thankful to them!
>>
>> *I want to announce that we want to invite some of our best students to 
>> become part of our organization on github* so they can keep contributing 
>> and be recognized for the work they do.
>> Since a most of the students that contribute during the Google Programs 
>> do not continue contributing afterwards, I do not want to keep adding 
>> "dormient" (eg: inactive) members to our organization, so I encourage the 
>> students who really care about the project to keep participating in their 
>> free time, as the rest of us here.
>> I think open source is a passion, caring to share your work for the 
>> benefit of humanity, not only something you do if you are rewarded with 
>> prizes (as in GCI) or money (as in GSoC).
>> Those who will keep contributing will become part of our organization and 
>> will gradually receive more permissions to manage things on their own if 
>> they want to do so.
>> We mentors will keep helping students, which after GCI won't be students 
>> anymore but contributors and peers, although with a more relaxed pace.
>>
>> In the next weeks we will slow down a bit in order to rest and recover, 
>> this GCI was exhausting, we had about *950 students* who completed at 
>> least 1 task with *a total of over 1900 tasks completed*.
>> We are *just 9 mentors*, what we achieved is really *incredible*, we 
>> would never have achieved this without *Alessia Ventani* and *Ajay 
>> Tripathi*, just the two of them mentored over 1500 tasks!
>> *So a super special mega thanks must go to them!*
>>
>> And of course *thanks to Google for facilitating this*.
>>
>> Keep up the good work friends!
>> 2 more years at this rhythm and I believe the OpenWISP community will 
>> have achieved most of the goals of the project 
>> <http://openwisp.io/docs/general/values.html#goals>!
>>
>> Best regards
>> Federico Capoano
>>
>

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