Your help is welcome promoting Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women in your communities. We welcome diversity of backgrounds. For instance, we have a decent representations of Indian, European and North American candidates but then other regions are underrepresented like i.e. the whole América Latina.
We have an informative session this week: http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/109096132/
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: GSoC: accepted! Mentors: apply, please Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:40:30 -0700 From: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
It's official! Today Wikimedia has been accepted into Google Summer of Code together with other 176 organizations:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/wikimedia
The next step in the process is to get the mentors registered.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors
Which means that if you were still considering mentoring then yes, you still have time to join us. Hurry up! The list of project ideas is (imho) pretty impressive, and we have just started receiving more ideas from students interested in spending the Summer with us.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
I think it's worth emphasizing that Google Summer of Code is open to university and college students and to graduate students. Also, OPW is open to women who have never worked in technology before, and to women who have not programmed before, and to women who are not students at all, and to transwomen and genderfluid people.
I point these out because people I speak with have made wrong assumptions about those criteria in the past. :)
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