From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hutterer Subject: Re: X.Org looking for projects and mentors for the Outreach Program for Women Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:02:50 +1000 Message-ID: <20140919060250.GA17283@jelly.redhat.com> References: <20140904230144.GA20941@jelly.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140904230144.GA20941-JrOm6vCWUpIAicBL8TP8PQ@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xcb-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Sender: "Xcb" To: xorg-devel-go0+a7rfsptAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org, dri-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org, wayland-devel-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org, mesa-dev-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org, xcb-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Just a reminder, if you have projects that are suitable for the OPW please add them to the wiki page or, if you can't access the wiki, send me a summary and I'll add it. http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/ Prospective participants can start submitting applications on Sep 22 and it'd be great if we had a nice range of projects available by then. Note that unlike GSoC, the scope is not limited to coding (see below). Cheers, Peter On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:01:44AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > X.Org will join the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) in Round 9 (December > 2014 - March 2015). The OPW is "open to anyone who was > assigned female at birth and anyone who identifies as a woman, genderqueer, > genderfluid, or genderfree regardless of gender presentation or assigned sex > at birth." > For more details on the program see https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen > > We've secured funding for one participant and are currently looking for > suitable projects and mentors. The scope of the program is "not limited to > coding, but include user experience design, graphic design, documentation, > web development, marketing, translation and other types of tasks needed to > sustain a FOSS project." > > So if you are interested in mentoring or you can think of a suitable > project, please add it to the wiki page or alternatively email me. > http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/ > > If you are interested in participating and you can think of a suitable > project, please do the same and we'll try our best to find a mentor for you. > > The applications will open on September 22, so let's get some good projects > up there by then! > > Cheers, > Peter, on behalf of the X.Org BoD >