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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sounds great! By the way the officers/presidents are the STUDENT leads of the chapters, and the mentors are typically a FACULTY member, although some cases have them being an alumni of the university. In case
that helps!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We can also take a look at the messaging and fix up any confusion. Thank you so much for looking into this! We appreciate on behalf of all the students getting more opportunities. I’ll look for your message
in the next days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Patricia <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia@denofr.de><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 8:01 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Patricia Solis <patricia.solis@asu.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>gsoc-orga@openstreetmap.org <gsoc-orga@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Youthmappers and Google Summer of Code<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Patricia,<br>
<br>
thank you for your insights. That sounds all very good to me. I'd say<br>
let's try with the email message and see how much response that gets. We<br>
don't have a mail ready yet but will draft something in the next couple<br>
of days. We'd probably need a slightly different appraoch if we are<br>
targeting the presidents/mentors. I'll discuss this with my fellow orga<br>
members.<br>
<br>
I'll also make sure to point you to our tweets once the official<br>
announcement is out. That's always a good way to spread the word.<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
Sarah<br>
<br>
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 09:32:59PM +0000, Patricia Solis wrote:<br>
> Hello Sarah,<br>
> <br>
> Thank you for your kind and encouraging words.<br>
> <br>
> What a great idea about the GSOC! I do know about it but did not make the connection that there were OSM opportunities there. I agree that we can make the YouthMappers students aware. Generally there are two ways we disseminate information of this nature:
one is through a message to them via email (sent to me, where I forward) to the Officers listserv. These are the presidents and/or mentors and/or communication officers of each chapter.<br>
> <br>
> We also share a lot of details out on the twitterverse. That makes it’s way around.<br>
> <br>
> There are a few additional communications means, like via OSM Teams (which is not everyone yet, just those who have agreed to send their OSM Username, still about 2,000 students); and there are Whatsapp channels, a Telegram channel, facebook page, linked
in page etc. Which are all fine and just a way to repeat messaging.<br>
> <br>
> We also have a blog – this is written by students – so if there happens to be a student who participated in the past whether a YouthMappers member or not, we would welcome sharing their voice in this way, too.<br>
> <br>
> Let me know if any of this strikes you as interesting. If you have a ready made message, that is great. We send messages in several languages, but find that hitting English, Spanish and French are the best ways to reach nearly everyone.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks again,<br>
> Patricia<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> From: Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia@denofr.de><br>
> Date: Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 4:28 AM<br>
> To: Patricia Solis <patricia.solis@asu.edu><br>
> Cc: gsoc-orga@openstreetmap.org <gsoc-orga@openstreetmap.org><br>
> Subject: Youthmappers and Google Summer of Code<br>
> Hi Patricia,<br>
> <br>
> thank you a lot for your presentation at the OSMF board meeting. I<br>
> really like what Youthmappers are trying to achieve as it reminds me very<br>
> much of the spirit of "just doing what is interesting" in the early days<br>
> of mapping in Europe.<br>
> <br>
> I don't know if you are already aware of the Google Summer of Code<br>
> programme (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!bJeanValC0onCq6FRsO8ulksdDb91BXqHYTqZt8yGgg_3MUy93V62cAahoYB-2waNICUhoHgvADvvucd6a-y$ ). It tries to introduce<br>
> students to the ways of Open Source. OpenStreetMap has been<br>
> participating in the programme as a mentor organisation almost<br>
> continually since 2006. The results have been mixed. We had some good<br>
> outcomes but many projects just died after the programme. Despite that<br>
> we think that the goal of teaching students how contribution to open<br>
> source works, is worthwhile.<br>
> <br>
> One of the main issues we had over the years is that most of the<br>
> students participating had never contributed to OSM before. This usually<br>
> means that they have a double learning curve: understanding the OSM<br>
> community and the software project they contribute to. But it also means<br>
> that the rate of people we retained is rather low.<br>
> <br>
> Which brings me to why I'm writing to you. Listening to your<br>
> presentation I realised that you have access to a large pool of<br>
> enthusiastic students that have already been introduced to the OSM<br>
> community. Exactly what we are looking for. So we really should reach<br>
> out explicitly to them.<br>
> <br>
> We are still in the early process of application for GSOC 2023.<br>
> Organisation application ends this week and we'll only know by end of<br>
> February if we have been accepted. That is also when students can start<br>
> to apply. Nonetheless, now would be a good time to remind students that<br>
> GSOC exists, so they can look into projects and make up their mind if<br>
> they want to participate. What do you think is the best means to reach<br>
> Youthmapper students?<br>
> <br>
> Looking forward to your thoughts.<br>
> <br>
> Sarah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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