[gnome-women] Outreach Program for Women quarterly update

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi!

Outreach Program for Women quarterly update for Q1 is below. You can also find it on:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q1

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 3.0 release had far more contributions by women than any previous release in GNOME history. This is largely thanks to the hard work of the eight participants of the first round of the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) internships, who participated in the program from December 15, 2010 to March 15, 2011. All of them had their work included in the main branches of their projects and therefore included in GNOME 3.0.

The interns also participated in GNOME events and continued on with their involvement in GNOME after the end of the internships. Tiffany Antopolski and Natalia Ruz participated in the User Help Hackfest in Toronto in March. Chandni Verma participated in the GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and delivered a well-received talk about her work on Empathy at the GNOME.Asia Summit in Bangalore in April. Luciana Fujii Pontello became the maintainer of the Cheese project.

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 to take 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!

In the next quarter, we look forward to the start of the internships of the program’s participants, their frequent blog updates, and their participation in GNOME events.

[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