[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of Google Code-in

[Victoria Rautenbach]

Good day

The 2019 OSGeo GCI Admin team thought we would share this with you.
The 2019 edition of GCI was the last, the Google Open Source group
will now GSoC and Summer of Docs.

OSGeo participated in GCI for 3 years! Over the three years, we worked
with 898 students that completed 2096 tasks across various OSGeo
projects. Thank you to those of you that served as mentors or answered
questions from GCI students. Thank you!

Regards
OSGeo GCI Admins team



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From: 'Stephanie Taylor' via Google Code-in Mentors
<gci-mentors at googlegroups.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:55 PM
Subject: [GCI-mentors] Thank you all for 10 incredible years of Google Code-in


Hi GCI Mentors and Org Admins,


Google Code-in concluded 10 amazing, productive, exhilarating years in
January. This program has been a success because of the amazing energy
and passion all of you have exhibited; volunteering dozens, hundreds,
and in some cases, thousands(!) of hours to help 14,700+ teenagers,
from 115+ countries, complete a whopping 76,200+ open source tasks,
during the past 10 years!


We wanted all of you to be among the first to know that Google Code-in
2019 was our final Google Code-in contest. We've been looking hard at
our portfolio of programs and as open source evolves, our programs
need to evolve too. We've decided to focus our efforts on Google
Summer of Code and programs like Season of Docs that meet projects'
sustainability needs going into the next 10 years of open source.


We want to thank you all for being inspiring role models to these
students. Many of you were GCI or GSoC students yourselves and have
been paying it forward for years by helping teenagers discover their
passion for open source software development. The extent of your
support was something many didn’t expect when they first started out
trying to complete a few tasks to earn a Google T-shirt.


You have welcomed students into your communities and shown them how
open source is making the world a better place and how they can be a
part of that. You all have inspired, taught, listened, and made a
difference in the lives of thousands of students. THANK YOU! These
students have brought fresh new perspectives and ideas into your
communities, inspiring long-term committers with their enthusiasm,
curiosity and skills.


Many of you have been mentors for all 10 years of GCI (plus GHOP!),
while others came into the GCI family just this past year. Regardless
of when you joined, thank you all for showing immense kindness,
patience, dedication, organization and guidance to the students, the
other mentors in our GCI community, and to me and the rest of our team
over the years.


These past 10 years of Google Code-in have been an exciting,
adrenaline pumping adventure – thanks for coming along on the ride
with us!


We will continue to be dedicated to helping open source communities be
sustainable and finding new contributors is an essential part of those
efforts. While Google Code-in is now officially retired, we look
forward to finding new ways to support your communities.


Best,

Stephanie Taylor

GCI Program Lead


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