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

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Helli!

For others: we are at exactly 36% through the contest (a nice 
'unofficial' page to follow for stats is http://gci-leaders.netlify.com/).

I wish all of OSGeo could see the activity and enthusiasm of these kids 
for OSGeo, it is really something, and gives the whole community a blast 
of fun! :)

GCI will truly will be a part of OSGeo every year from now on...

-jeff (part of the first GCI admin team)



On 2017-12-15 5:57 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> 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
> 
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