Hi all -
The project submission deadline has been extended to *March 14th, 2025 at 4pm UTC*. Mentors now have additional time to submit their projects.
Thanks!
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM Lani Goto lgoto@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all -
Wikimedia is participating in Round 30 of the Outreachy program https://www.outreachy.org/ [1] that runs from June 2025 through August 2025! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is March 4, 2025 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by March 14, 2025.
We are currently gathering a list of interesting project ideas. If you have some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research) projects, please share them on this task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386245 [2]. (Note that tasks will be hidden until the application period begins.)
About the Outreachy Program Outreachy is a paid, remote three-month internship program. Outreachy's goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in tech. We help newcomers to free software and open source make their first contributions in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), coding, and non-coding projects with experienced mentors.
Interns are paid a stipend of USD 7000 for the three months of work. Outreachy internship projects may include programming, user experience, documentation, illustration, graphical design, or data science. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.
Outreachy expressly invites the following people to apply:
- women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people to
apply.
- residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander
- anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or
discrimination in the technology industry of their country
More details and eligibility criteria can be found here: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/ [3]
Tips for mentors for proposing projects As a mentor, you will engage with potential candidates in the application period from February to March and help them make small contributions to your project. You will work more closely with the accepted candidates during the internship period from June through August.
Each mentor will need to submit an intern project proposal: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/ [4] The project proposal will then be reviewed and approved by the FOSS community coordinators. Additional co-mentors for the intern project will be able to sign up for the project after it has been approved by the community coordinator.
Guidelines for Crafting Project Proposals
- A proposal should include:
- Brief summary
- Skills required
- Learning outcomes
- Possible mentor(s)
- Microtasks
- Each project should have at least two mentors, with one of them
holding a technical background.
- Ideally, the project has no tight deadlines, a moderate learning
curve, and fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core infrastructure. Projects addressing the needs of a language community are most welcome.
- Project should require an experienced developer ~15 days and a
newcomer ~3 months to complete.
- To learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors, visit
the resources:
Thanks!
- Developer Outreach team
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386245 [3] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/ [4] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/ [5] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
-- Lani Goto (they/them) Senior Technical Program Manager