[Board] GCI 2017: A big thank you for the hard work!

[Margherita Di Leo]

PS. If anyone wish to know more about the GSoC activity, please browse
OSGeo wiki: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Google_Summer_of_Code

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:13 AM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jody, a blog post would be a good forum for such a "press release".
>>
>> I can help with reviewing the post, if someone who has been involved in
>> GSOC can write a first draft. The post can be relatively short, maybe just
>> a couple of paragraphs.
>>
>> What I think should be covered:
>>
>> * Google has donated $$$ to OSGeo
>>
> Please note that this "donation" should be seen in the broader context of
> our participation in Google Code-in this year. And our participation in
> Google code-in is possible because we, as organization, have successfully
> participated in Google Summer of Code for 11 years (and applying for 12th
> time now). As Helmut noted, this has been possible only thanks to the hard
> work of our pool of mentors / admins volunteering their time. OSGeo has
> graduated 180 students in total through the GSoC program, not counting the
> growing number of pre-university students participating in the still
> on-going code-in. So, IMHO, if anything should be posted in a blog, should
> definitely include these facts before than anything else. Taking this
> "donation" out of its context doesn't make any sense.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
>



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Margherita Di Leo
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