Hello,
I'm happy to announce that Wikimedia is participating in Round 29 of the Outreachy program https://www.outreachy.org/ [1] that runs from December 2024 through March 2025! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by September 18, 2024.
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/T372834 [2].
*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.
These internships run twice a year–from May to August and December to March. 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 is open to applicants around the world and the program is open to both students and non-students; complete eligibility rules https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/ [3]. Outreachy expressly invites the following people to apply:
- Women (both cis and trans), trans men, non-binary people, and genderqueer people. - Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or discrimination in the technology industry in their country of residence. - Residents and nationals of the United States of America of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.
*Tips for mentors for proposing projects*
As a mentor, you will engage with potential candidates in the application period during October and help them make small contributions to your project. You will work more closely with the accepted candidates during the internship period from December through March.
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*
- Follow this task description template when you propose a project in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects [5]. - Add *Outreachy (Round 29)* tag - Project should require an experienced developer ~15 days and a newcomer ~3 months to complete. - 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. - If you don't have an idea in mind and would like to pick one from an existing list, check out these projects: - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects [6] - To learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors, visit our resources on MediaWiki.org: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors [7]
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Deb
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372834
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
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deb tankersley (she/her)
senior technical program manager
Wikimedia Foundation