Fwd: [gci-announce] Google Code-in 2014 is on!

[Michael Howden]

Hey All,

Is anyone interested in supporting Sahana's involvement in this program - either as a Mentor or an Admin? Applications don't open for another couple of weeks - but it would be good to start finding out if there's enough interest to get involved again...

Cheers

Michael

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Subject:	[gci-announce] Google Code-in 2014 is on!
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2014 10:01:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Stephanie Taylor <stta...@google.com>
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Hi open source enthusiasts,

We’re excited to announce that the fifth edition of the Google Code-in 2014 contest [0] will start December 1st for students and run until January 19th, 2015 [1]. Teenagers from around the world will have the opportunity to work with real open source software projects by working on tasks including coding, documentation, outreach, training and user interface tasks. Over the past four years we have had 1575 students from 78 countries work on tasks for over 30 open source projects.

We’re looking forward to another fun and exciting contest this year and hope you’ll participate yourself if you are eligible and also spread the word to friends, family, and colleagues about the program. Please check out the timeline [1] for more important dates.

Please see our blog post [2], FAQs [3], and the contest site [4] for contest rules and other details on the contest. You can also sign up for the contest discussion list [5]. Our program website [6] has slide decks, logos, a getting started guide and other information that can help you plan for this year's contest too.

You can register as a student once the contest begins on Monday, December 1st at 17:00 UTC.

If you are part of an open source organization that would like to apply to be a mentoring organization for this year's contest the applications open for organizations on Monday, October 27th and end on Monday, November 10th.

Help us spread the word to the teens in your life. 

[0] - developers.google.com/open-source/gci

[1] - http://www.google-melange.com/gci/events/google/gci2014

[2] - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/10/google-summer-of-code-2015-and-google.html

[3] - http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2014/help_page

[4] - google-melange.com

[5] - http://groups.google.com/group/gci-discuss

[6]  - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/

Cheers,

The Google OSPO Team

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[Arnav Kumar Agrawal]

Hi Michael,

I would like to be involved in the program. I would also be willing to be the org admin. It w ould be cool seeing school students code for sahana once again :D

Regards
Arnav Kumar Agrawal

[Hitesh Sharma]

Hi Michael,

I would like to be a part of this program as a Mentor, if possible :).

Thanks,
Hitesh Sharma

[Michael Howden]

Awesome! :)

Arnav - thanks for stepping up as the Org Admin!
Hitesh - thanks for putting your hand up as well!

If you're not familiar with the program - have a look here: http://developers.google.com/open-source/gci and definitely here to see what we did last year:
http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Event/2013/GCI

Especially start thinking about and documenting tasks for students to work on during GCI. Can we use Sunflower for this?

Feel free to take the lead and start getting things ready for our application, otherwise I'll swing back to this around Nov 4th.

Allen


Cheers

Michael Howden
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[Robby O'Connor]

I will (once again) assist but cannot be an admin...I'm in my final semester of undergrad and don't have ample time to do the admin job justice.
Keep me posted please :)

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[Ramindu Deshapriya]

Hi Michael,

I'm willing to help with the role of admin. 

Thanks.

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