Dear wikimedians,
The Free and Open Source Souftware Outreach Program for Women offers paid internships to developers and other technical profiles working on projects together with free software organizations. Wikimedia is participating again, and we welcome candidates.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9
This call is open to Wikimedia volunteers (editors, developers...) and also to people that would contribute for the first time in our projects. In the past editions we have seen that candidates coming through a direct recommendation have good chances of success. It is also known that many good potential candidates will be reluctant to step in, but they will if someone (like you) encourages them to apply, or to contact us with any questions.
You can make a difference. If you know women with software development or open source background / interest and full time availability between December and March, please forward them this invitation. Thank you!
Hello!
My name is Elena Enacache and I graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania.
I really enjoy open source programming, it makes me happy because I feel that I can put in practice my creative ideas, I can contribute to an existing project and try to give something back.
I have already contributed to some existing open source software products which helped me to get experience. One of them is GNOME Music. I started to contribute to this project while being enrolled in a 3 months CDL course organized by ROSEdu (Romanian Open Source Education) and I have improved my skills on working with Git, Python, GTK , Grilo and I had a great collaboration with my mentor. Another one is an Android app called Mood Player which detects the user’s mood using facial recognition and pattern matching and recommends songs that match the detected mood.
I was very happy to see that Wikimedia is again a participant of the FOSS Outreach Program for Women, because I would love to apply to this internship with one of Wikimedia’s projects. Since I’m still undecided and I don’t know which project suits me best, I would like to know which projects would you recommend in terms of importance for your organization.
I would like to mention that this summer I have been doing an internship during which I have been programming using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and Android in the eLearning department and I have also attended some courses of PHP at the university. However, I’m willing to learn a lot of new things because I want to improve myself in different directions.
Thank you very much! Kind regards,
Elena
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 6:28 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear wikimedians,
The Free and Open Source Souftware Outreach Program for Women offers paid internships to developers and other technical profiles working on projects together with free software organizations. Wikimedia is participating again, and we welcome candidates.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9
This call is open to Wikimedia volunteers (editors, developers...) and also to people that would contribute for the first time in our projects. In the past editions we have seen that candidates coming through a direct recommendation have good chances of success. It is also known that many good potential candidates will be reluctant to step in, but they will if someone (like you) encourages them to apply, or to contact us with any questions.
You can make a difference. If you know women with software development or open source background / interest and full time availability between December and March, please forward them this invitation. Thank you!
Hello Elena, thank you for being here.
On Thursday, September 18, 2014, elena enacache elena.enacache@yahoo.com wrote:
Since I’m still undecided and I don’t know which project suits me best, I would like to know which projects would you recommend in terms of importance for your organization.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Featu...
The idea is to find one or more projects that you think fit with your interests and skills, read about them, contact the mentors or ask in their Bugzilla reports / Discussion pages.
I added two projects related to pywikibot: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Raw_pro... Please check if anything is correct.
Best On 9/17/14, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear wikimedians,
The Free and Open Source Souftware Outreach Program for Women offers paid internships to developers and other technical profiles working on projects together with free software organizations. Wikimedia is participating again, and we welcome candidates.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9
This call is open to Wikimedia volunteers (editors, developers...) and also to people that would contribute for the first time in our projects. In the past editions we have seen that candidates coming through a direct recommendation have good chances of success. It is also known that many good potential candidates will be reluctant to step in, but they will if someone (like you) encourages them to apply, or to contact us with any questions.
You can make a difference. If you know women with software development or open source background / interest and full time availability between December and March, please forward them this invitation. Thank you!
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Now with blog post and some known faces. :)
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/18/new-foss-outreach-internships-female-t...
Thank you to those who forwarded this email, and of course thank you to the mentors and candidates that are becoming increasingly active.
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear wikimedians,
The Free and Open Source Souftware Outreach Program for Women offers paid internships to developers and other technical profiles working on projects together with free software organizations. Wikimedia is participating again, and we welcome candidates.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9
This call is open to Wikimedia volunteers (editors, developers...) and also to people that would contribute for the first time in our projects. In the past editions we have seen that candidates coming through a direct recommendation have good chances of success. It is also known that many good potential candidates will be reluctant to step in, but they will if someone (like you) encourages them to apply, or to contact us with any questions.
You can make a difference. If you know women with software development or open source background / interest and full time availability between December and March, please forward them this invitation. Thank you!
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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