[Fwd: Women's Summer Outreach Program 2006]

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Most readers of this list will know what the Google Summer of Code 
(GSoC) is, if you are one of these skip the next paragraph, everyone 
else will get a little background, so keep reading.

In the last two years Google have made cash and resources available to 
help promote Open Source development within the student communities of 
the world. Basically, Open Source projects identify mini-projects that a 
student can do in three months. They then provide a mentor who will 
guide the student in the "ways of Open Source". The student receives 
US$4500 whilst the project receives US$500. The outcome is that the 
project gets some fresh blood and some code, whilst the student gets 
lowered gently into open source.

So what does this have to do with women@a.o?

The mail below, originally sent to the GSoC admin list, may provide some 
inspiration for members of this list....

Ross

-------- Original Message --------
Date: 	Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:41:18 +0200
From: 	Vincent Untz <vi...@gmail.com>
To: 	Summer-Administrators-2006@googlegroups.com
Subject: 	Women's Summer Outreach Program 2006

Hi,

We have started to announce this everywhere and here is a good place too
since other organizations might be interested in doing something similar.

Short story: http://www.gnome.org/projects/wsop/

Longer story: The GNOME Foundation is using the money coming from Google
through the SoC projects to sponsor three women during two months. This
will work like Google's SoC except that it's two months and it's only
for women. The goal is to get more women involved in our community in
the long term, since there are really too few women right now. And we
don't want to have women doing the things nobody want to do, but we want
them to work on the same stuff as we're all already working on. You can
see some FAQ and more informations on http://www.gnome.org/projects/wsop/

We can't just sit and wait, wishing that more women would contribute to
free software: action is required, to try to get a decent numbers of
female contributors. We encourage everyone to do similar programs (and
we can try to help organizations wanting to do so).

(this is not a Google initiative, it's not related to SoC, if you want
to blame people, blame GNOME people, or better, blame me, if you want to
thank someone, thank the GNOME Foundation (and Google for the money),
etc. ;-))

Cheers,

Vincent

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