[Kde-women] Outreach Program for Women

[David Edmundson]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> KDE will ̣- for the first time this year - participate in the
> "Outreach Program for Women"[1]. This was originally started by GNOME,
> but has also other participating organisations like Wikimedia,
> Mozilla, Fedora and others.
>
> With KDAB as our sponsor we will be offering one internship. This is
> in no way only limited to coding, but includes user experience design,
> graphic design, documentation, web development, marketing, translation
> and other types of tasks needed to sustain a Free Software project.
>
> Prerequisits for application: Any woman who has not previously
> participated in an Outreach Program for Women or Google Summer of Code
> internship is welcome to apply, provided she is available for a
> full-time internship during this time period. This program is open to
> anyone who identifies as a woman regardless of gender presentation or
> assigned sex at birth. Genderqueer and genderfluid people are welcome
> to apply.
>
> The application deadline for candidates is already on May 1st, while
> the program runs from June 17 to September 23.
>
> Please all, suggest suitable tasks on this wiki page [2] and volunteer
> to mentor. Feel free to contact me or Lydia for more information.
>

Do you need anything from us as developers?
>From our point of view is it effectively just like having one extra
GSOC student?

I would suggest adding on the KDE wiki page instructions on how to
apply, linking to the relevant bit of the Gnome wiki. As I understand
it they are to email  opw-list at gnome.org, how do these get back to us?

David Edmundson

> Regards, Myriam
>
>
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
> [2] https://community.kde.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
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