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Wikimedia will participate in the FOSS Outreach Program for Women - Round 7. Interns of this program work full time in an open source project during 4 months.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women
Candidates interested are encouraged to add themselves to the table at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_7#Candidates - even if you are still preparing your proposal.
We are actually running late (my fault). The application process is open until November 11. The internship period goes from December 10 to March 10, 2014.
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to fund up to 8 interns. This is a great opportunity for Wikimedia / MediaWiki related projects. Our process is quite simple: define a project, find the mentors and go for it!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors
The previous featured projects and confirmed mentors have been moved respectively to the Raw and Bench sections. If you want to participate in this OPW round move the entries back to the featured sections.
New projects and mentors are welcome too, of course!
If you have any questions please ask.
After a quick survey through the main teams involved in the Summer round of OPW and Google Summer of Code, it is clear that most of them need a rest. This is a good chance for new mentors and projects to join in!
I'm pinging other Wmikimedia Foundation teams e.g. Analytics, which already have committed to bring a proposal and two mentors. What about projects like Commons, Wikinews, Wikivoyage...? What about bots, gadgets, templates...? What about mobile apps not supported by the WMF mobile team...? What about mediawiki.org and wikitech.wikimedia.org...? Are there any technical projects that tech events organizers could benefit from...?
On 10/24/2013 03:02 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
New projects and mentors are welcome too, of course!
When thinking about project proposals, a good rule of thumb is: tasks that would take two weeks of full time work to an experienced contributor.
We found that these two weeks can be translated in approximately six weeks of an intern. This time is easily wrapped with as much time or more for onboarding to open source development and the Wikimedia tech community, setting up your environment and tools, testing, bugfixing, documentation and deployment.
If you are interested, we have documented more lessons learned at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Lessons_learned
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