These 27 organizations will mentor students in Google Code-in 2018

We’re excited to welcome 27 open source organizations to mentor students as part of Google Code-in 2018. The contest, now in its ninth year, offers 13-17 year old pre-university students from around the world an opportunity to learn and practice their skills while contributing to open source projects–all online!

Google Code-in starts for students on October 23rd. Students are encouraged to learn about the participating organizations ahead of time and can get started by clicking on the links below:

• 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.
• KDE Community: produces FOSS by artists, designers, programmers, translators, writers and other contributors.
• 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: a network management system aimed at low cost networks.
• 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.

These 27 organizations are hard at work creating thousands of tasks for students to work on, including code, documentation, design, quality assurance, outreach, research and training tasks. The contest starts for students on Tuesday, October 23rd at 9:00am Pacific Time.

You can learn more about Google Code-in on the contest site where you’ll find Frequently Asked Questions, Important Dates and flyers and other helpful information including the Getting Started Guide.

Want to talk with other students, mentors, and organization administrations about the contest? Check out our discussion mailing list. We can’t wait to get started!

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source

Google Code-in 2018 is looking for great open source organizations to apply

We are accepting applications for open source organizations interested in participating in Google Code-in 2018. Google Code-in (GCI) invites pre-university students ages 13-17 to learn by contributing to open source software.

Working with young students is a special responsibility and each year we hear inspiring stories from mentors who participate. To ensure these new, young contributors have a solid support system, we only select organizations that have gained experience in mentoring students by previously taking part in Google Summer of Code.

Organization applications are now open and all interested open source organizations must apply before Monday, September 17 at 16:00 UTC.

In 2017, 25 organizations were accepted – 9 of which were participating in GCI for the first time! Over the last 8 years, 8,108 students from 107 countries have completed more than 40,000 tasks for participating open source projects. Tasks fall into 5 categories:

• Code: writing or refactoring.
• Documentation/Training: creating/editing documents and helping others learn more.
• Outreach/Research: community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions.
• Quality Assurance: testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
• Design: graphic design or user interface design.

Once an organization is selected for Google Code-in 2018 they will define these tasks and recruit mentors from their communities who are interested in providing online support for students during the seven week contest.

You can find a timeline, FAQ and other information about Google Code-in on our website. If you’re an educator interested in sharing Google Code-in with your students, you can find resources here.

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source