[OSGeo-Discuss] Code-in contest starts tomorrow

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi all,

A little note to the whole OSGeo community that the Google Code-in 
contest begins tomorrow at 17:00 UTC.  Please keep in mind that a 
possible 1400+ students, aged 13-17 and from 500+ schools across the 
world can be diving into the OSGeo community, and asking questions on 
your project's email list, IRC/gitter/slack channels.  Please be extra 
kind to questions over the next 2 months (until 17 January).

I also want to take the time to thank those volunteers for mentoring the 
students, and who have created short tasks (that take 3-5 hours to be 
completed over 5 days) for OSGeo projects & initiatives, so that young 
students from all over the world get exposed to the OSGeo family's 
passion for sharing :)

   Project / Mentors
   -----------------

   FOSS4G: Yewondwossen Assefa, Jeff McKenna
   GeoServer: Victoria Rautenbach
   GeoTools: Vicky Vergara Castillo
   GRASS GIS: Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
   gvSIG: Nadia Chaer, Sergio Acosta y Lara, Antonio Zito Camacho, Mauro 
Carlevaro, Carlos I. Colombana
   MapServer: Yewondwossen Assefa, Jeff McKenna
   OpenLayers: Victoria Rautenbach
   OSGeoLive: Vicky Vergara Castillo, Maoguang Wang
   OSGeo: Yewondwossen Assefa, Jeff McKenna
   pgRouting: Vicky Vergara Castillo, Maoguang Wang, Vidhan Jain, Daniel 
Kastl, Rohith Reddy Sankepally
   PostGIS: Victoria Rautenbach, Vicky Vergara Castillo
   QGIS: Victoria Rautenbach

   Administrators
   --------------

   Margherita Di Leo
   Florin Cioloboc
   Helmut Kudrnovsky
   Jeff McKenna

   Kickoff time: 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2017&month=11&day=28&hour=17&min=0&sec=0

   More info for students: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Code_In_2017_Recommendations_for_Students


-jeff on behalf of GCI admins, 2017