Re: [gnome-women] Outreach Program for Women quarterly update

[Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com>]

Hi Marina, 

This is awsome. Great to see these good progress. 

Máirín's "Girl Scouts’ Digital Media Course" might a good example for me to do the same thing in China. 

-Emily

2011/2/10 Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>

Hi!

Outreach Program for Women quarterly update for Q4 is below. You can also find it on:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2010/Q4

Please let me know if you'd like to add anything!

Thanks,
Marina

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Outreach Program for Women

by: Marina Zhurakhinskaya

The GNOME project proudly announced eight Outreach Program for Women interns on November 5 in the following press release: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-11-women-outreach-interns.html . We were able to accept eight strong candidates thanks to Google sponsoring four of them, the GNOME Foundation sponsoring three, and Collabora sponsoring one. The participants, as well as their location, project, and mentor, are:

 * Tiffany Antopolski, Toronto, Canada - Documentation - Paul Cutler
 * Nanci de Brito Bonfim, Salvador, Brazil - Anjuta - Sébastien Granjoux
 * Luciana Fujii Pontello, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Cheese - Thiago Sousa Santos
 * Eugenia Gabrielova, Chicago, USA - Anjuta - Johannes Schmid
 * Laura Elisa Lucas Alday, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Cheese - Daniel Siegel
 * Hellyna Ng, Johor, Malaysia / Singapore - GNOME Shell - Marina Zhurakhinskaya
 * Natalia Andrea Ruz Leiva, Valparaíso, Chile - Documentation - Paul Cutler
 * Chandni Verma, Lucknow, India - Empathy - Danielle Madeley

The following blog post has more information about each participant as well as the links to their individual blogs: http://blogs.gnome.org/marina/2010/11/05/meet-the-gnome-outreach-program-for-women-interns The participants have started their internships on December 15 and have been updating the GNOME community about their work with frequent blog posts that are aggregated on Planet GNOME. The internships period will end March 15. We are hoping that all of the participants will stay active in the GNOME community past the completion of their internships.

We are planning to run the next round of internships from end of May through end of August, with the application process announced sometime in the beginning of March and the application deadline on April 8. This application deadline is same as the application deadline for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year, which will allow us to direct qualifying applicants to apply for both programs. GNOME has historically had few female applicants for GSoC, and running these programs in parallel will bring the attention of more female student coders to the opportunity to participate in GSoC. Unlike GSoC, GNOME Outreach Program for Women doesn’t require applicants to be students and includes non-coding internships, such as documentation, graphic design and marketing.

Máirín Duffy has completed teaching Girl Scouts’ Digital Media Course that she developed as part of the FSF Womens' Caucus' “Bringing free software to girls and young women” outreach program with the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts and Red Hat. The course consisted of 9 weekly two hour sessions teaching photo and image manipulation using Gimp and Inkscape. The excellent handout materials that Máirín developed for the course can be found in her wrap up blog post: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/girl-scouts’-digital-media-course-materials These materials can be used for other similar courses by anyone interested in teaching them.
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