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GSoC Mentors' Summit 2019 - 15 years celebration at Munich

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My apologies for posting so late about this event from 2019 when it’s time for GSoC 2020 session to be concluded. In my defence, I've been preoccupied with unforeseeable circumstances and their uncontrollable consequences. Regardless of that, with this blog, I'll try to relive and cherish my experience while attending Google Summer of Code 2019 (GSoC) Mentors Summit which held in Munich, Germany from 17-20 October 2019. I had been associated with the Mifos Initiative for around 3 years by then. This organization gave a brilliant opportunity to me (a mentor), Rahul (an organisation admin) and Sanyam (under the umbrella organization - Apache Foundation) to represent it in the summit for serving as mentor or admin during GSoC 2019. This was the first time the summit was held outside the US and was for 3.5 days to mark the completion of 15 years of Google Summer of Code! It used to be a 2-day event usually. The adventure began (so to speak) much before the actual event when I fa...