What is open source?

● Computer software where the source code is distributed

under an open source license that allows anyone to study,
change, improve and distribute the software.
● Promotes collaboration
● Community of developers
What is Google Code-in?
● Online, global contest for 13-17 year old pre-university
students
● Introduction to open source software development
● Students have the opportunity to work with real open source
organizations
● Students earn prizes for their work
How does Google Code-in work?
● 27 Orgs create tasks for students to work on
● Students choose tasks that interest them
● Tasks take 3-5 hours to complete
● 1+ mentor assigned to each task
● Student submits work for review
● Mentor reviews work
● If accepted, student can claim another task
Types of Tasks
Generally take 3-5 hours to complete

● Coding
● Documentation/Training
● Design
● Outreach/Research
● Quality Assurance
Beginner tasks

● Great way to get started in the contest

● Become familiar with how the org works
● Build confidence
● Students can complete up to 2 beginner tasks
Why should you participate?
● Apply skills from class to a real software org
● Learn new skills: creating patches, using version control,
distributed development, working collaboratively
● Become part of the community
● Easy entry, mentors there to help guide you (online)
● OS software isn’t just about coding - variety of types of
tasks
● See your work being used by thousands, even millions,
maybe even become a committer on a project
Prizes
● 1 task = Digital Certificate of completion
● 3 tasks = Google t-shirt and a digital certificate
● 6 Finalists from each org = hooded sweatshirt, t-shirt, digital
certificate
● Grand Prize Winners (2 from each org)
Grand Prize Winners
● Each open source organization will choose 2 Winners
● Winners are chosen from the 20 students who complete the
most tasks from each organization
● Organizations will evaluate a student’s work based on
creativity, thoroughness and quality of work, community
involvement
● Grand Prize winners receive 4 day trip for themselves and a
parent to Google’s headquarters in the summer of 2019
How can I prepare for GCI?
● Read through the Guides on g.co/gci: Getting Started, How
to use IRC, Etiquette, FAQs
● Contest Rules - you and your parent should read them
● Look at tasks completed by students last year - Samples
● Browse the 2018 accepted organizations
● Questions for Google Administrators:
[email protected]
Timeline for GCI 2018
September 18: Mentoring organizations announced

October 23: Contest starts for students

December 10: Last day for students to claim tasks

December 12: Contest ends

January 7, 2019: Winners and Finalists announced

2018 Mentor Organizations
● AOSSIE: Australian umbrella organization for open source projects.
● Apertium: rule-based machine translation platform.
● Catrobat: visual programming for creating mobile games and animations.
● CCExtractor: open source tools for subtitle generation.
● CloudCV: building platforms for reproducible AI research.
● coala: a unified interface for linting and fixing code, regardless of the programming languages used.
● Copyleft Games Group: develops tools, libraries, and game engines.
● Digital Impact Alliance: collaborative space for multiple open source projects serving the international
development and humanitarian response sectors.
● Drupal: content management platform.
● Fedora Project: a free and friendly Linux-based operating system.
● FOSSASIA: developing communities across all ages and borders to form a better future with Open
Technologies and ICT.
● Haiku: operating system specifically targeting personal computing.
● JBoss Community: a community of projects around JBoss Middleware.
2018 Mentor Organizations (cont)
● Liquid Galaxy: an interactive, panoramic and immersive visualization tool.
● MetaBrainz: builds community maintained databases.
● MovingBlocks: a Minecraft-inspired open source game.
● OpenMRS: open source medical records system for the world.
● OpenWISP: build and manage low cost networks such as public wifi.
● OSGeo: building open source geospatial tools.
● PostgreSQL: relational database system.
● Public Lab: open software to help communities measure and analyze pollution.
● RTEMS Project: operating system used in satellites, particle accelerators, robots, racing motorcycles, building
controls, medical devices.
● Sugar Labs: learning platform and activities for elementary education.
● SCoRe: research lab seeking sustainable solutions for problems faced by developing countries.
● The ns-3 Network Simulator Project: packet-level network simulator for research and education.
● Wikimedia: non-profit foundation dedicated to bringing free content to the world, operating Wikipedia.
● KDE Community: produces FOSS by artists, designers, programmers, translators, writers and other
contributors.
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