Re: [gugmasters] Fwd: getting ready for GSoC and OPW

[Max <sakanamax gmail com>]

Dear Emily:

Thank for the information ^^
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Best regards


Max

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> GNOME users group leaders, please help to spread this message to your local
> community, especially to students and women.
>
> Getting ready for GSoC and OPW now.
>
> Thanks,
> Emily
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>
> Date: 2012/2/21
> Subject: getting ready for GSoC and OPW
> To: soc-mentors-list gnome org, women-outreach <women-outreach gnome org>,
> outreach-list gnome org
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Google Summer of Code organizations application period will take place from
> February 27 to March 9. The accepted organizations will be announced on
> March 16 and the student application deadline is April 6. Can someone please
> start preparing GNOME's application to participate?
>
> We need to start letting students know that they should prepare to apply for
> GSoC as early as possible. Contributing to any organization would help with
> applying to the ones that are accepted. We should also announce the Outreach
> Program for Women internships to give the applicants as much time as
> possible to work on the required first contribution.
>
> I updated the information page about OPW, prepared an e-mail that people
> could use to advertise both GSoC and OPW, and created a page with
> information for mentors in GNOME.
>
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012/SpreadTheWord
> https://live.gnome.org/InfoForMentors
>
> The big change for this round of OPW is that instead of the dedicated list
> of mentors it now points the applicants to the GNOME-wide list of mentors
> available on https://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/Mentors . I moved the OPW list
> of mentors there a few months ago, and people have been adding themselves to
> it. With this list, we now provide all newcomers with a way to find a mentor
> in GNOME who can help them with the first contribution!
>
> I've also encouraged other organizations to create such lists of mentors or
> provide links to the information about other ways newcomers can connect with
> mentors in their organization.
> http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/Mentors has these links
> and will be used to encourage students to find mentors in different
> organizations. In particular, we are planning to spread the word about this
> resource among various women groups, which will help encourage more women
> participate in GSoC.
>
> I put the things that have proved to be important for OPW, such as a
> requirement for the applicant to contribute to the project they are applying
> for and an encouragement of manageable projects with commits throughout the
> internships period, on the GNOME's InfoForMentors page. Could we have
> contributing to the module one is applying to work on, rather than
> contributing to any module in GNOME, be a requirement for GSoC? This will
> better prepare both new and existing contributors for their work during the
> summer and will show us that people are actually comfortable working on the
> module they are applying to work on.
>
> Please let me know if you have any feedback about these resources! Four OPW
> interns - Liansu, Christy, Meg, and Tamara - are now working on an awesome
> comic about the application process for OPW, and we'll be ready to announce
> the next round once this comic is ready.
>
> Thanks,
> Marina
>
> P.S. Please note that soc-mentors-list and women-outreach list are private
> lists, and outreach-list is a public list.
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