[gnome-women] Outreach Program for Women quarterly update

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi!

Outreach Program for Women quarterly update for Q2 is below. You can also find it on:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q2

Some overlap with the Q1 update is due to some news that belongs to Q2 already being available at the time of writing of the Q1 update. Please let me know if you'd like to add anything!

Note the great news that the GNOME Foundation has approved funding for two more rounds of the internships!

For those attending the Desktop Summit, the GNOME women's dinner will take place on Monday, August 8. I will soon send out an e-mail with the time and place. The Women's Networking BoF has been scheduled for 6pm on Tuesday, August 9. Please add your name to the wiki page if you are planning to attend!
http://wiki.desktopsummit.org/Workshops_%26_BoFs/2011/Women%27s_Networking_BoF

Thanks,
Marina

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Outreach Program for Women

by: Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Thanks to generous sponsors, Collabora, Google, Mozilla and the GNOME Foundation, GNOME was able to accept eight strong participants for the new round of internships that are taking place between May 23 and August 22, 2011. Setting the same application dates for this round of OPW internships as the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application dates proved to be a successful strategy for encouraging more women to apply for GSoC in GNOME. In addition to the eight OPW interns, there are seven female interns among the 27 GSoC interns in GNOME. This is an unprecedented number of female GSoC participants in GNOME, as it had at most one female participant in some of the previous years. All women who applied for GSoC in 2011 found mentors and project ideas, made a first contribution, and navigated the application process with the help of the resources available through the OPW.

The OPW interns, as well as their location, project, and mentor(s), are:

  * Aline Duarte Bessa, Salvador, Brazil – Accessibility, Documentation – David Bolter and Joanmarie Diggs
  * Meg Ford, Chicago, USA – Accessibility, Art – David Bolter and Andreas Nilsson
  * Ekaterina Gerasimova, Berlin, Germany – Documentation – Shaun McCance
  * Julita Inca, Lima, Peru – Documentation – Phil Bull
  * Yu Liansu, Beijing, China – Art – Andreas Nilsson
  * Priscilla Mahlangu, Pretoria, South Africa – Localization – Friedel Wolff
  * Anita Reitere, Riga, Latvia – Documentation – Phil Bull
  * Kelly Sinnott, Las Vegas, USA – Documentation – Shaun McCance

GSoC female interns, as well as their location, project, and mentor, are:

  * Tiffany Antopolski, Toronto, Canada – Empathy – Danielle Madeley
  * Tamara Atanasoska, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia – Anjuta – Johannes Schmid
  * Neha Doijode, Karnataka, India – GNOME Shell – Marina Zhurakhinskaya
  * Nohemi Fernandez, Chicago, USA – GNOME Shell – Dan Winship
  * Raluca Elena Podiuc, Bucharest, Romania – Cheese – Luciana Fujii Pontello
  * Srishti Sethi, Rajasthan, India – GCompris – Bruno Coudoin
  * Madhumitha Viswanathan, Chennai, India – GTG – Luca Invernizzi 

The press release [1] and the program details page [2] have more information about the program. The list of GNOME projects that participate in the program has grown to 13, and more projects are encouraged to join in!

The GNOME Foundation has approved funding for two more rounds of the Outreach Program for Women internships with at least three participants each. The next round will take place between December 2011 and March 2012. The application deadline for this round will be in the end of October 2011. We will soon update the information on the wiki about the internships and will open the application period.

The Desktop Summit is the big event for the GNOME community in the next quarter. It will be taking place August 6-12 in Berlin, Germany. Eleven Outreach Program for Women interns from the past two rounds of the program will be attending the event. They will do lightning talks about their work during the GNOME and KDE Interns Showcase [3] session. First round's intern Chandni Verma will do a talk Knock Knock! What is new? [4] about her experience with the program and contributions to Empathy. Encouraged by the last year's great GNOME women's dinner experience, we will gather for another one this year, making it an annual tradition. There will also be a Women's Networking BoF [5] that will allow GNOME and KDE women to meet each other and talk about the work they are doing, how they started contributing, and the women outreach efforts in both projects.

[1] http://www.gnome.org/press/2011/04/after-a-successful-first-round-gnome-project-announces-new-outreach-program-for-women-interns
[2] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2011
[3] https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/gnome-and-kde-interns-showcase
[4] https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/knock-knock-what-new
[5] http://wiki.desktopsummit.org/Workshops_%26_BoFs/2011/Women%27s_Networking_BoF