Re: Call for OPW project ideas

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Germán Poo-Caamaño" <gpoo gnome org>
> To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>
> Cc: "GNOME Foundation" <foundation-list gnome org>, "desktop-devel-list" <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 11:23:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Call for OPW project ideas
>
> On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 23:48 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
> > Dear Foundation,
> >
> > The application process for the new round of Outreach Program for
> > Women internships has recently started, and we are looking for people
> > willing to mentor GNOME projects in this round. Because we only
> > usually have a few participants in OPW, this round we would only like
> > to offer projects that are most strategic for GNOME. These include,
> > but are not limited to, projects in the area of privacy [1], developer
> > experience, GTK+ [2], core experience, core applications [3], and web
> > infrastructure. We would also like people to think ahead of time how
> > they will be able to provide excellent mentorship to the interns
> > before, during, and after the internship, and whether there is a
> > larger project team the intern will be able to receive support from.
> > Matthias Clasen, Allan Day, and Sriram Ramkrishna have kindly agreed
> > to be a part of a cross-team triage committee for proposed project
> > ideas. Please add ideas you are willing to mentor to the wiki page for
> > the round [4] by early next week.
>
> Hi Marina,
>
> Will the mentors still be required to sign a document that makes them
> legally liable?

Hi Germán,

Yes. The legal liability is only for gross negligence, recklessness or intentional wrongdoing. This is 
covered on https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#Contracts

This is not unique to OPW. GSoC has similar terms mentors have to agree to, which are much more broad - 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/org_admin_agreement .

Thanks,
Marina

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