Hi, the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships has started!
The blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/15/apply-for-the-foss-outreach-program-for...
The program: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
The Wikimedia specific information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
If you are following Wikimedia in Identica, Twitter, G+ or Facebook, you likes and shares are welcome. Please help out reaching out to women in tech out there!
-- Quim
Hi,
The deadline for applications to the Women Outreach Program is December 3rd. Potential candidates and mentors: make sure that your entries are listed at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Candidates
In fact you are encouraged to list yourselves and link to the relevant pages as soon as possible. We like transparency and we are used to work-in-progress. :)
Everybody else: note also that we are encouraging candidates to add a section in their user Talk page for support and endorsements. If you think a specific candidate/project should be selected explain your reasons there.This way you will help us making the right decisions.
Thank you!
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships has started!
The blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/15/apply-for-the-foss-outreach-program-for...
The program: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
The Wikimedia specific information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
If you are following Wikimedia in Identica, Twitter, G+ or Facebook, you likes and shares are welcome. Please help out reaching out to women in tech out there!
-- Quim
Hi, a brief OPW status update a week before the deadline for candidate submissions:
We have 14 candidates listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Candidates
We are still being contacted by new prospective candidates almost on a daily basis.
About half of the candidates are in a good track for meeting deadlines. The other half still has time to fix this problem. :)
Next week the mentors will start the selection of 3 internships, maybe more if there is a very good justification (and budget). Remember that YOU can help the selection by leaving your endorsements in the Talk page of the applicants.
On 11/15/2012 12:28 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships has started!
The blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/15/apply-for-the-foss-outreach-program-for...
The program: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
The Wikimedia specific information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
If you are following Wikimedia in Identica, Twitter, G+ or Facebook, you likes and shares are welcome. Please help out reaching out to women in tech out there!
Another brief update about the Outreach Program for Women:
- We have just published the selection criteria and process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Selection
- There are 21 candidates listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Candidates and we are still receiving new requests every day.
December 3rd is the last day for applying. Candidates contacting us now have already a tight schedule to present a good proposal, but there are still chances for a good candidate to be selected.
It seems that it wasn't clear to all participants that this is a full time internship program, incompatible with work or studies commitments. Some of the initial candidates have dropped their proposals because of this.
On 11/15/2012 12:28 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships has started!
The blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/15/apply-for-the-foss-outreach-program-for...
The program: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
The Wikimedia specific information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
If you are following Wikimedia in Identica, Twitter, G+ or Facebook, you likes and shares are welcome. Please help out reaching out to women in tech out there!
-- Quim
Another little update about the Outreach Program for Women:
We have decided that we have a lot more good candidates than we can take. We have started communicating to some applicants that they have better chances among other organizations:
https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#Organizations_Looking_for_App...
In practice this means that our gate for new submissions is basically closed.
On 11/15/2012 12:28 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships has started!
The blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/15/apply-for-the-foss-outreach-program-for...
The program: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
The Wikimedia specific information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
If you are following Wikimedia in Identica, Twitter, G+ or Facebook, you likes and shares are welcome. Please help out reaching out to women in tech out there!
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