[Geo4All] Call for mentors for the upcoming Google Code-In contest, for kids aged 13-17

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Annrose,

Mentors help create short 3 to 5 hour tasks for the students, and those 
tasks can be technical or non-technical (logos, videos, promotional 
materials, testing, docs, etc) or a mixture of both.  And for any task 
you can include as many mentors as you wish.  So to answer your 
question: yes you can have multiple mentors per task instance.

-jeff



On 2018-09-11 10:29 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> This is a call for OSGeo mentors for the Google Code-in contest (where 
> short 3-5 hour tasks are created for kids aged 13-17).  OSGeo 
> participated last year for the first time, where kids performed tasks 
> from 11 OSGeo projects, completing 649 tasks in total over about a 6 
> week span.  The tasks are short, only 3-5 hours long, and are not only 
> about coding but can be documentation, testing, creating logos, videos, 
> blogs, and fun things that kids like to do.
> 
> Interested mentors are asked to fill in the short Google form at 
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jDbLOiQpNbA4wldXo0N5cUDY6aDKkEIvouOL0osAyO0 
> 
> 
> The contests starts 23 October and ends 12 December, but OSGeo's 
> application is due this coming Monday, so we please if you're interested 
> fill in that Google form right away (having mentors helps our chances to 
> have the application accepted).   You can see the full timeline of the 
> contest at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2018
> 
> We'll also have a quick IRC meeting this Thursday, if you have questions 
> etc, please come and ask.  Time: 
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2018&month=09&day=13&hour=16&min=0 
>   In the IRC channel #osgeo-gsoc (connect directly in your browser 
> through https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=osgeo-gsoc )
> 
> Last year we had tasks from projects such as GRASS GIS, pgRouting, 
> MapServer, GeoServer, OpenLayers, OSGeoLive, PostGIS, QGIS, FOSS4G, and 
> gvSIG).  Let's have more this year!!
> 
> Please share this to all OSGeo projects (official/incubation/community). 
>   thanks!
> 
> -Code-in admins 2018
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