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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Many thanks to the OSGeo GCI admins and everyone involved for all the 
hard work and impressive results.

Best,
Angelos

On 6/12/20 4:14 PM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hello Victoria and the whole OSGeo GCI team,
>
> thanks a lot for sharing this information.
>
> Sad to hear that there will be not GCI in the future.
>
> It os so impressive to see your numbers about only 3 year that OSGeo 
> participated - 898 students and 2096 completed tasks. Wow. Amazing.
>
> Thanks a lot to the OSGeo GCI Admins team and all mentors, people and 
> projects involved in GCI. GCI was a great way to get young people 
> introduced and involved in Open Source Software and bring people from 
> all over the world together and inspire to collaborate. Thanks a lot.
>
> Astrid
>
> Am 11.06.2020 16:21 schrieb 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> 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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