Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Suchith Anand 
Great work everyone. I will request Nikos to promote this  in next month's 
GeoForAll newsletter


Best wishes,


Suchith



From: Discuss  on behalf of Maria Antonia 
Brovelli 
Sent: 31 January 2018 21:49
To: Margherita Di Leo; news_i...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success 
to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community


Dear Margherita and all wonderful team of mentors

Thanks a lot. In my opinion, this is one of the most valuable activity of 2017. 
As educator, I can say that behind this numbers there is a great commitment, 
work and also enthusiasm and generosity. And there are probably fantastic 
stories and facts that, I hope, you will be able to tell us at some conferences 
or when we will have the occasion of meeting each other.

Proud of having people like you among us!

Congratulations also to the students and welcome to our community.

Cheers

Maria




Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies




Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano


ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; 
GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board


UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative 
(Chair of the Capacity Building WG)


Sol Katz Award 2015



P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)

Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
maria.brove...@polimi.it









Da: Discuss  per conto di Margherita Di Leo 

Inviato: mercoledì 31 gennaio 2018 18:23
A: news_i...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to 
introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community


OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into 
the geospatial Open Source community


After participating many years in the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently 
participated for the first time in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a 
contest held each year to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to 
Open Source software development. Since 2010, over 4500 students in 99 
countries have completed work in the contest. Students compete to win prizes of 
certificates, t-shirts, hoodies, and a possible free trip to Google 
headquarters in California, U.S.


Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many students have with 
Open Source, the contest is designed to make it easy for students to jump right 
in. Open Source organizations chosen by Google provide a list of tasks for 
students to work on during the seven week contest period; each task should take 
only 3 to 5 hours to complete, and can involve not only coding but also 
important community work such as documentation, outreach, communication, 
quality assurance/testing, and user interface design. A unique part of the 
contest is that each task has mentors from the organization assigned, should 
students have questions or need help along the way.


OSGeo administrators began working on OSGeo’s first application to Google back 
in early November.  It was a huge undertaking, as mentor organizations create 
hundreds of tasks for the potentially thousands of students to work on during 
the contest period and are responsible for assigning mentors to help students 
with questions and to review students’ work on the tasks.


OSGeo mentors and admins prepared 176 tasks related to its geospatial projects 
like GeoForAll, GeoServer, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, 
pgRouting, and QGIS.


This year’s contest was held from 28 November 2017 until 17 January 2018, and 
had almost triple the number of students of the previous year.  A total of 279 
young students completed 649 tasks for OSGeo (530 students in total examined 
OSGeo tasks). OSGeo students were from many countries including: India, Poland, 
Pakistan, Thailand, United States, Russia, Germany, Cameroon, Singapore, Spain, 
Romania, UK, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, 
Canada, and others.  The students were guided and supported by a great team of 
OSGeo mentors.


OSGeo’s GCI mentors and admins evaluated the results of the students according 
to the following factors: creativity, thoroughness, and quality of work. An 
additional criterium was the contribution to the community by interacting with 
and helping others.


OSGeo is pleased to announce the Google Code-in Grand Prize winners (who each 
receive a free trip to Google headquarters,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Dear Margherita and all wonderful team of mentors

Thanks a lot. In my opinion, this is one of the most valuable activity of 2017. 
As educator, I can say that behind this numbers there is a great commitment, 
work and also enthusiasm and generosity. And there are probably fantastic 
stories and facts that, I hope, you will be able to tell us at some conferences 
or when we will have the occasion of meeting each other.

Proud of having people like you among us!

Congratulations also to the students and welcome to our community.

Cheers

Maria




Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies




Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Digital Mapping
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4 "Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" 
http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; 
GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

UN-GGIM Academic Network Deputy Chair, UN-GGIM Italy, UN OpenGIS Initiative 
(Chair of the Capacity Building WG)

Sol Katz Award 2015

P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 - Building 3 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
Tel. +39-02-23996242 - Mob. +39-328-0023867,  <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> 
maria.brove...@polimi.it








Da: Discuss  per conto di Margherita Di Leo 

Inviato: mercoledì 31 gennaio 2018 18:23
A: news_i...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions; OSGeo-SoC
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to 
introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community


OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into 
the geospatial Open Source community


After participating many years in the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently 
participated for the first time in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a 
contest held each year to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to 
Open Source software development. Since 2010, over 4500 students in 99 
countries have completed work in the contest. Students compete to win prizes of 
certificates, t-shirts, hoodies, and a possible free trip to Google 
headquarters in California, U.S.


Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many students have with 
Open Source, the contest is designed to make it easy for students to jump right 
in. Open Source organizations chosen by Google provide a list of tasks for 
students to work on during the seven week contest period; each task should take 
only 3 to 5 hours to complete, and can involve not only coding but also 
important community work such as documentation, outreach, communication, 
quality assurance/testing, and user interface design. A unique part of the 
contest is that each task has mentors from the organization assigned, should 
students have questions or need help along the way.


OSGeo administrators began working on OSGeo’s first application to Google back 
in early November.  It was a huge undertaking, as mentor organizations create 
hundreds of tasks for the potentially thousands of students to work on during 
the contest period and are responsible for assigning mentors to help students 
with questions and to review students’ work on the tasks.


OSGeo mentors and admins prepared 176 tasks related to its geospatial projects 
like GeoForAll, GeoServer, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, 
pgRouting, and QGIS.


This year’s contest was held from 28 November 2017 until 17 January 2018, and 
had almost triple the number of students of the previous year.  A total of 279 
young students completed 649 tasks for OSGeo (530 students in total examined 
OSGeo tasks). OSGeo students were from many countries including: India, Poland, 
Pakistan, Thailand, United States, Russia, Germany, Cameroon, Singapore, Spain, 
Romania, UK, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, 
Canada, and others.  The students were guided and supported by a great team of 
OSGeo mentors.


OSGeo’s GCI mentors and admins evaluated the results of the students according 
to the following factors: creativity, thoroughness, and quality of work. An 
additional criterium was the contribution to the community by interacting with 
and helping others.


OSGeo is pleased to announce the Google Code-in Grand Prize winners (who each 
receive a free trip to Google headquarters, along with a parent/guardian) are 
students:


  *   Sunveer Singh (India)

  *   Jerry Huang (United States)


OSGeo’s Google Code-in finalists (who receive Google hoodies) are:


  *   Ethan Zhao (United States)

  *   Neev Mistry (United States)

  *   Shailesh Kadam (India)


See here: https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners the winners from all 
organizations.


OSGeo wholeheartedly congratulates the winners and finalists. We also thank all 
students working on

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students into the geospatial Open Source community

2018-01-31 Thread Margherita Di Leo 
*OSGeo & Google Code-in 2017/2018: a great success to introduce students
into the geospatial Open Source communityAfter participating many years in
the Google Summer of Code, OSGeo recently participated for the first time
in the Google Code-in. Google Code-in is a contest held each year to
introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to Open Source software
development. Since 2010, over 4500 students in 99 countries have completed
work in the contest. Students compete to win prizes of certificates,
t-shirts, hoodies, and a possible free trip to Google headquarters in
California, U.S.Because Google Code-in is often the first experience many
students have with Open Source, the contest is designed to make it easy for
students to jump right in. Open Source organizations chosen by Google
provide a list of tasks for students to work on during the seven week
contest period; each task should take only 3 to 5 hours to complete, and
can involve not only coding but also important community work such as
documentation, outreach, communication, quality assurance/testing, and user
interface design. A unique part of the contest is that each task has
mentors from the organization assigned, should students have questions or
need help along the way.OSGeo administrators began working on OSGeo’s first
application to Google back in early November.  It was a huge undertaking,
as mentor organizations create hundreds of tasks for the potentially
thousands of students to work on during the contest period and are
responsible for assigning mentors to help students with questions and to
review students’ work on the tasks.OSGeo mentors and admins prepared 176
tasks related to its geospatial projects like GeoForAll, GeoServer, GRASS
GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, pgRouting, and QGIS.This
year’s contest was held from 28 November 2017 until 17 January 2018, and
had almost triple the number of students of the previous year.  A total of
279 young students completed 649 tasks for OSGeo (530 students in total
examined OSGeo tasks). OSGeo students were from many countries including:
India, Poland, Pakistan, Thailand, United States, Russia, Germany,
Cameroon, Singapore, Spain, Romania, UK, Vietnam, Dominican Republic,
Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Canada, and others.  The students were
guided and supported by a great team of OSGeo mentors. OSGeo’s GCI mentors
and admins evaluated the results of the students according to the following
factors: creativity, thoroughness, and quality of work. An additional
criterium was the contribution to the community by interacting with and
helping others.OSGeo is pleased to announce the Google Code-in Grand Prize
winners (who each receive a free trip to Google headquarters, along with a
parent/guardian) are students: - Sunveer Singh (India)- Jerry Huang (United
States)OSGeo’s Google Code-in finalists (who receive Google hoodies) are: -
Ethan Zhao (United States)- Neev Mistry (United States)- Shailesh Kadam
(India)See here: https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/#winners
 the winners from all
organizations.OSGeo wholeheartedly congratulates the winners and finalists.
We also thank all students working on OSGeo’s tasks for their great
contributions to the OSGeo community.All this wouldn’t be possible without
the guidance by our mentors. OSGeo is deeply grateful for their hard work
over 2 months of the contest.  We are also grateful to Google for welcoming
OSGeo into the contest as a GCI mentoring organization for the first
time.This has been a magical and fun experience, seeing the enthusiasm of
the students for OSGeo, and how that fun trickles through the entire
community. Thank you to everyone involved.--OSGeo GCI admins
2017/2018Links:https://codein.withgoogle.com/
https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-search=OSGeo
*


-- 
Margherita Di Leo
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