Hello Chris,
Yes, mentoring organizations provide funding for the Outreachy internships.
For the upcoming winter round, WMF will be funding up to 6 projects.
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 3:44 PM Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi,
Is this funded by the WMF? I noticed it in the list of "promoters" but was
unable to discern whether there was funding involved.
Regards,
Vermont
On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:00 PM Gopa Vasanth <gopavasanth1999(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
*(feel free to forward the message as is to your
friends, family members
&colleagues)*
Hello folks,
We would like to invite you to apply to the Outreachy program with the
Wikimedia Foundation (a non-profit organization behind Wikipedia)!
*About the Outreachy program*
Wikimedia will be mentoring ~6 projects in the Outreachy’s December 2020
to
February 2021 Round, around data science and
engineering. The initial
applications are due *September 20th at 4 pm UTC*.
Apply today: <https://www.outreachy.org/apply/> [1]
Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and
Open
Source Software (FOSS) projects, coding, and
non-coding related (e.g.,
design, documentation, translation, outreach, and research), with
experienced mentors. Outreachy internships run twice a year – from May to
August and December to March. Interns are paid a stipend of USD 5,500 for
the three months of work. They also have a USD 500 stipend to travel to
conferences and events. Interns often find employment after their
internship with Outreachy sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they
learned during their internship.
Outreachy is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:
* Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people.
* Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or
discrimination
in the technology industry in their country of
residence is invited to
apply.
* Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American
Indian,
Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific
Islander.
Browse through the participants’ guides, to learn more about the
application process steps <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants> [2]
*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
The Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> [3] is the
nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia free knowledge projects <
https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/> [4]. Our
vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum
of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to
contribute
something to our shared knowledge and that
everyone should be able to
access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia
projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and
sharing
Wikimedia content, support the volunteer
communities and partners who
make
Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies
that enable Wikimedia and
free knowledge to thrive.
We hope you will help us spread the word about Wikimedia’s participation
in
these programs: <
https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999/status/1299566047423377408> [5] (by
retweeting the post in the link or by sharing this email).
Looking forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Pavithra, Gopa Vasanth & Srishti (Wikimedia organization administrators
for
Outreachy)
[1]
https://www.outreachy.org/apply/
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants
[3]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
[4]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/
[5]
https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999/status/1299566047423377408
--
Regards
Gopa Vasanth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gopavasanth>
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham <http://www.amrita.edu/> | Blog
<https://gopavasanth.wordpress.com/>
amFOSS <https://amfoss.in/@gopavasanth> | GitHub
<https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth>
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