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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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 04/09/2013 01:00 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
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/
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Subject: GSoC: accepted! Mentors: apply, please
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:40:30 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)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