Outreach
Report on our outreach efforts in 2014-15. Should include GSoC and OPW/Outreachy.
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2014 marked the 10th year of Google's Summer of Code (GSoC), and GNOME's 10th year having the privilege of participating. 2014 also marked the 7th and 8th rounds of the Outreach Program for Women (OPW), a program GNOME started in 2010. GNOME OPW internships were sponsored this year by Google, the GNOME Foundation, HP, the Linux Foundation, and Red Hat.
GNOME had 35 GSoC and 6 OPW interns in 2014, all of whom successfully completed their internships. Notably, 11 of their mentors were once GNOME interns. As a community, we are proud to offer a place for people to grow from being first-time contributors to experts eager to guide others in their first steps. The interns-turned-mentors in 2014 were: Mattias Bengtsson, Giovanni Campagna, Cosimo Cecchi, Mathieu Duponchelle, Fabiano Fidencio, Ekaterina Gerasimova, Izidor Matušov, Tobias Mueller, Arth Patel, Parin Porecha, Sindhu Sundar.
We help interns get integrated with the community by helping them connect with mentors during the application process, requiring them to make a relevant contribution for the application to be considered, requiring them to blog, aggregating their blogs on Planet GNOME, and helping them attend GUADEC. Having interns' blogs integrated on Planet GNOME brings visibility to their work and invites community feedback. Attending GUADEC allows them to meet people in-person and feel the excitement of being a part of an international community of passionate Free Software contributors.
With the help from the GNOME Foundation and GUADEC sponsors, 25 GSoC interns and 1 OPW intern attended GUADEC 2014. We made sure they felt welcome and integrated by having an interns' lunch the first day of the conference and hosting a lightning talks plenary session in which they presented their work.
OPW continued to grow in 2014 by offering internships to 70 women with 18 Free Software organizations: Debian, Fedora, Foreman, GNOME, Libav, Linux kernel, Mesos, Mozilla, Open Source Robotics Foundation, Open Technology Institute, OpenStack, ownCloud, Perl, Python, QEMU, Wikimedia, Xen Project, and Yocto Project. These internships were sponsored by Wikimedia Foundation at Equalizer level; Google, HP, Intel, Linux Foundation, Mozilla, Open Source Robotics Foundation, and Red Hat at Promoter level; and Cloudera, Codethink, Debian, GNOME Foundation, Libav, Linaro, Open Technology Institute, Open Source Robotics Foundation, OpenStack Foundation, ownCloud, Perl Foundation, Python Software Foundation, Rackspace, Twitter, Xen Project, and Yocto Project at Includer level.
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https://goo.gl/photos/7XzR1tFpynwpZoWC8 Photos by Marina Zhurakhinskaya, CC BY-SA 3.0, picture of the interns group at GUADEC available, though not the best quality
See Also
Additional information can be found in our 2015 application for GSoC
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