The deadline for submissions to the Outreach Program for Women was
reached yesterday and we have got 11 candidates:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Candidates
The selection process and criteria are explained at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Selection
Between now and Friday you (yes, you) are encouraged to endorse your
preferred participants in their User Talk pages. Ten minutes of your
time might bring 3 months of paid internship to a brilliant contributor!
This call goes especially for contributors to projects related to the
project proposals presented. This endorsement is also a good opportunity
to offer your support and help. Candidates can also request endorsement
from colleagues in projects where you are currently active. All input
data is useful as long as there is some way to identify who is endorsing.
We will use these endorsements in our evaluation for each candidate. The
most important factor of evaluation will be the confidence of the
mentors on each candidate accomplishing the goals of their proposals.
Your backing is relevant to register interests in a specific proposal
and also the help it might get from other contributors interested in the
same area. At the end the goal of the program is to see tasks
accomplished and (even more important) new members happily involved in
the community after the internship ends.
There is a private meeting with all the mentors this Friday. Make sure
your feedback is posted in their Talk pages by then.
The selected candidates will be announced on December 11, next Tuesday.
PS: Candidates are invited to introduce themselves in this list if they
wish. If you are here it's because you have done already a significant
amount of homework. W hope to see you around and active regardless of
the outcome of the selection! Congratulations and thank you for choosing
Wikimedia as your preferred project to contribute.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation