Stream: GCI announce

Topic: winners

Yago González (Jan 30 2017 at 17:08):

Now the results are out, I'd like to give my most sincere congratulations to @Sampriti Panda, @Tommy Ip, @Cynthia Lin, @Rafid Aslam and @Robert Hönig. You deserve it, guys!

Sampriti Panda (Jan 30 2017 at 17:10):

Thanks!

Tommy Ip (Jan 30 2017 at 17:10):

Wow thanks for everything guys!!

Cynthia Lin (Jan 30 2017 at 17:16):

Thanks! You did a great job as well :)

Alicja Raszkowska (Jan 30 2017 at 17:29):

congratulations to all of the GCI students for your tremendous work and contributions! you've all came such a long way since day one :)

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 17:39):

It was a difficult decision to choose here, because there were so many great contributions. And we hope that it in the long run, people value the experience regardless of where they finished in terms of task counts, etc.

Tim Abbott (Jan 30 2017 at 17:39):

Congratulations to the winners!

We found the process of choosing the GCI winners very difficult, because to be honest there were more than 5 awesome contributors who we'd have liked to recognize as winners, and for all of our top 5, there was a strong case that they should be in the top 2. That said, I think everyone who learned a lot from contributing to Zulip is a winner, because what one learns from this sort of experience is worth 10x as much as the prizes.

Sampriti Panda (Jan 30 2017 at 17:42):

Thanks a lot everyone!

Tim Abbott (Jan 30 2017 at 17:43):

At times I wonder how much better a programmer I'd be today if I'd been involved in contributing to open source in high school (I only really started doing this sort of work during my second year in college)

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 17:43):

Just to highlight some of the positive things GCI students did for Zulip:

• We increased our integration coverage.
• A couple students fixed some pretty subtle bugs.
• Our contrib_bots project got battle-tested, and we have lots more bots, better documentation, better organization, and more vision for how to proceed in the future.
• Students made some nice code cleanups with eslint, pep8, etc.
• We have students who continue to contribute to our community and help newcomers to the project.
• Our new online user help system is amazing!

I am probably leaving stuff out.

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 17:44):

Oh yeah, translations! Thanks to everybody who participated in that effort.

Tommy Ip (Jan 30 2017 at 17:47):

Also a lot more documentation in general!

Tim Abbott (Jan 30 2017 at 17:55):

You're definitely leaving stuff out! Some other big ones:

• mypy coverage for the rest of our scripts and stuff
• A ton of little UI bugs were found, and most of them fixed
• Removed much of our legacy API we were hoping to get rid of
• Inventing the #peer review stream :)
  etc.

With 730 tasks completed (about 2x the average of other GCI organizations), it's kinda hard to summarize

Sumana Harihareswara (Jan 30 2017 at 17:56):

GCI students' usage got the droplet workflow way more polished

Tim Abbott (Jan 30 2017 at 17:57):

Oh yeah, that's actually super great because it means we'll have a much easier time at PyCon getting new folks on board

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 17:57):

Indeed! It was also a great experience for mentors to learn. For next year, for example, we need to figure out a better way to teach git! It probably seems like ancient history now, but we were really struggling in the first week just to teach folks git, and it often stretched our own knowledge.

Sumana Harihareswara (Jan 30 2017 at 17:57):

[Reviewing http://georgiareh.com/2016/05/oscon-how-to-teach-git will probably be profitable.]

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 17:58):

reading now, @Sumana Harihareswara

Alicja Raszkowska (Jan 30 2017 at 17:58):

and all the proactive work outside of the GCI tasks: sharing their experiences, asking just the right questions, commenting and being open about their doubts, helping other contributors (not only other students)

Alicja Raszkowska (Jan 30 2017 at 17:59):

I was one of the mentors who had to learn a ton just to help out with the incoming questions and it made me a much better programmer :)

Cynthia Lin (Jan 30 2017 at 19:03):

GCI blog post is up: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/announcing-google-code-in-2016-winners.html

Tim Abbott (Jan 30 2017 at 19:23):

62 countries; amazing!

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 19:29):

Shout out to @Joshua Pan, who was a grand prize winner on another project! (@Joshua Pan spent a lot of time here not only completing tasks, but helping other folks.)

Tim Abbott (Jan 30 2017 at 19:31):

Woah, I'd missed that; impressive work @Joshua Pan!

Joshua Pan (Jan 30 2017 at 21:25):

Thanks @Tim Abbott @Steve Howell and all other mentors! I really enjoyed working for Zulip

Alicja Raszkowska (Jan 30 2017 at 21:36):

congrats @Joshua Pan !

Patrick Grave (Jan 30 2017 at 22:45):

Thanks @Tim Abbott and @Steve Howell ! Good work to all the winners. I also really enjoyed working with Tulip this year.

Patrick Grave (Jan 30 2017 at 22:51):

Thanks @Alicja Raszkowska too.

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 23:06):

You're welcome!

Patrick Grave (Jan 30 2017 at 23:11):

Zulip* Autocorrect again

Steve Howell (showell) (Jan 30 2017 at 23:17):

yep!

Cynthia Lin (Jan 31 2018 at 17:19):

GCI 2017 winners were announced (blog post)!

Congratulations to @skunkmb (Marco Burstein), @cPhost , @steve , and @Freddie Miller!

Thank you to all the GCI mentors for volunteering countless hours to help the students learn and making GCI 2017 a wonderful experience! It was super exciting to work with everyone :)

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