[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Google Code-in - a half time report: a success

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Dear OSGeo community,

Google Code-in is in on the way to half time of the young students contest and it can be called a success.

Some general stats over all participating orgs [1]:

* Total registered students: 6,146
* Number of students who have completed at least one task: 1,573 (51% of those students have completed more than 3 tasks, earning them a GCI t-shirt)
* Total number of tasks completed: 5,499
* Most tasks completed by one student: 39

Regarding OSGeo, our mentors are doing an amazing work to help young students to complete taks. A big thank you to our mentors!

GCI tasks are create by these OSGeo projects and initiatives:

FOSS4G, GeoServer, GeoTools, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, OpenLayers, OSGeo, OSGeoLive, pgRouting, PostGIS,  QGIS

Are you interested in these tasks, have a look in [2].

Also young students are very motivated to try completing OSGeo tasks:

* 121 tasks are already done by students

That's great: videos how to use/install OSGeo software, T-shirts for coding sprints, graphics for manual pages and many more.

As an example [3]:

* d.rgb: added figure to example, thanks to Jerry Huang and Google Code-in

Stay tuned! And help young students when they're asking on the MLs. It's their first step to join our community.

Kind regards
Helmut (on behalf of the OSGeo GSoC/GCI admin team)


[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/12/google-code-in-is-breaking-records.html
[2] https://codein.withgoogle.com/tasks/?sp-organization=5139786496999424
[3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-commit/2017-December/042808.html