The deadline for submissions to the Outreach Program for Women was reached yesterday and we have got 11 candidates:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Candidates

The selection process and criteria are explained at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Selection

Between now and Friday you (yes, you) are encouraged to endorse your preferred participants in their User Talk pages. Ten minutes of your time might bring 3 months of paid internship to a brilliant contributor!

This call goes especially for contributors to projects related to the project proposals presented. This endorsement is also a good opportunity to offer your support and help. Candidates can also request endorsement from colleagues in projects where you are currently active. All input data is useful as long as there is some way to identify who is endorsing.

We will use these endorsements in our evaluation for each candidate. The most important factor of evaluation will be the confidence of the mentors on each candidate accomplishing the goals of their proposals. Your backing is relevant to register interests in a specific proposal and also the help it might get from other contributors interested in the same area. At the end the goal of the program is to see tasks accomplished and (even more important) new members happily involved in the community after the internship ends.

There is a private meeting with all the mentors this Friday. Make sure your feedback is posted in their Talk pages by then.

The selected candidates will be announced on December 11, next Tuesday.

PS: Candidates are invited to introduce themselves in this list if they wish. If you are here it's because you have done already a significant amount of homework. W hope to see you around and active regardless of the outcome of the selection! Congratulations and thank you for choosing Wikimedia as your preferred project to contribute.