The participants of the new round of FOSS Outreach Program for Women have been announced:

Wikimedia https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_7

All projects https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2013/DecemberMarch

Please welcome the six participants that will work on Wikimedia projects between December 10 and March 10:

Anu G Enchackal - Kerala,India UploadWizard:OSM Map Embedding Mentored by Gergő Tisza (co-mentor wanted) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Inchikutty/UploadWizard_OSM_Map_Embeddin...

Diwanshi Pandey - Pune,India Complete the MediaWiki development course at Codecademy Yuri Astrakhan (co-mentor wanted) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Diwanshipandey/OPW

Brena Monteiro - Belo Horizonte, Brazil mediawiki.org homepage redesign Heather Walls, Quim Gil https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Monteirobrena/OPW

Be Birchall - New York, USA Clean up Parsoid round-trip testing UI, including using a templating system Marc Ordinas, Subramanya Sastry https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:5xbe/Proposal

Maria Pacana - New York, USA Clean up tracing/debugging/logging inside Parsoid Subramanya Sastry, Arlo Breault https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mariapacana/Application

Niharika Kohli - New Delhi, India Compact interlanguage links as a beta feature Sucheta Ghoshal, Pau Giner https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Niharika/Compacted_Interlanguage_Links_a...

We are still looking for co-mentors in two projects. Their primary mentors are fully qualified, but they welcome a third point of view, and some backup. Contact us if you are interested in the success of these projects. It is a good opportunity for new mentors!

Let me also highlight Sucheta's role as mentor, less than a year after she was an OPW participant herself. This is how our participation in outreach programs becomes sustainable in the long run.

The new teams have a couple of weeks for onboarding and planning the first project iterations. We will also find some time to meet altogether, and team by team.

OPW participants, thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia!