The GNOME Outreach Program for Women has been a great success over the last two years. The program began with a track on women at the Libre Planet conference in March of 2010, followed by the first ever Women's Dinner at GUADEC 2010 where 15 women attended. Marina Zhurakhinskaya gave a short presentation to the GNOME Advisory Board and the Annual General Meeting on the women's outreach program efforts.
In 2010 GNOME encouraged women to apply to Google Summer of Code (GSoC). In the end, five women did so, and two were selected, although only Christina Boumpouka finished the program, working on GNOME-Shell. In the fall, the GNOME Foundation allocated $25,000 to the new Outreach Program for Women (OPW), with eight candidates selected from seven countries working on five projects, sponsored by Google (4), GNOME Foundation (3) and Collabora (1). All of the interns from the first round had their work included in GNOME 3.
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Tiffany Antopolski |
Toronto, Canada |
Documentation |
Paul Cutler |
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Nanci de Brito Bonfim |
Salvador, Brazil |
Anjuta |
Sébastien Granjoux |
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Luciana Fujii Pontello |
Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
Cheese |
Thiago Sousa Santos |
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Eugenia Gabrielova |
Chicago, USA |
Anjuta |
Johannes Schmid |
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Laura Elisa Lucas Alday |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Cheese |
Daniel Siegel |
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Hellyna Ng |
Jhor, Malaysia/Singapore |
GNOME Shell |
Marina Zhurakhinskaya |
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Natalia Andrea Ruz Leiva |
Valparaíso, Chile |
Documentation |
Shaun McCance |
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Chandni Verma |
Lucknow, India |
Empathy |
Danielle Madeley |
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In 2011the GNOME's outreach program came into its own, with over 25 participants in OPW & GSoC. Over the summer, it was decided to set the same dates as for GSoC which proved successful in encouraging more women to apply for both programs. In the end eight OPW interns were selected along with an additional seven through the GSoC program from eleven countries working on ten different projects from Documentation to GNOME-SHELL.
GNOME Outreach Program, May - August 2011
Participant |
IRC Nick |
Location |
Project |
Mentor |
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Aline Duarte Bessa |
alibezz |
Salvador, Brazil |
Documentation, Accessibility |
David Bolter and Joanmarie Diggs |
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Meg Ford |
m_22 |
Chicago, USA |
Art, Accessibility |
David Bolter and Andreas Nilsson |
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Ekaterina Gerasimova |
kittykat |
Berlin, Germany |
Documentation |
Shaun McCance |
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Julita Inca |
yulys |
Lima, Peru |
Documentation |
Phil Bull |
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Yu Liansu |
yuliansu |
Beijing, China |
Art |
Andreas Nilsson |
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Priscilla Mahlangu |
priny |
Pretoria, South Africa |
Localization |
Friedel Wolff |
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Anita Reitere |
nitalynx |
Riga, Latvia |
Documentation |
Phil Bull |
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Kelly Sinnott |
polymathica |
Las Vegas, USA |
Documentation |
Shaun McCance |
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Google Summer of Code 2011
Participant |
IRC Nick |
Location |
Project |
Mentor |
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Tiffany Antopolski |
mimico |
Toronto, Canada |
Empathy |
Danielle Madeley |
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Tamara Atanasoska |
tamara |
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia |
Anjuta |
Johannes Schmid |
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Neha Doijode |
sanjien |
Karnataka, India |
GNOME Shell |
Marina Zhurakhinskaya |
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Nohemi Fernandez |
fernandex |
Chicago, USA |
GNOME Shell |
Dan Winship |
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Raluca Elena Podiuc |
mimi |
Bucharest, Romania |
Cheese |
Luciana Fujii Pontello |
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Srishti Sethi |
Rajasthan, India |
GCompris |
Bruno Coudoin |
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Madhumitha Viswanathan |
madhuvishy |
Chennai, India |
GTG |
Luca Invernizzi |
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Nine interns from the first two rounds attended the Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany in August some doing lightening talks during the GNOME & KDE Interns Showcase, and attending the GNOME Women's Dinner there (which grew to 23 attendees!). Three interns also attended the Montreal Summit in Canada, while Marina Zhurakhinskaya & André Klapper attended the GSoC Mentors Summit in Mountain View, California.
The third round of GNOME's OPW began December 15, 2011 and runs through March 15, 2012. The largest OPW round so far, twelve interns from eleven countries were chosen, working on twelve projects, including six which had not previously had interns through the program (Marketing, Pitivi, Games, Web Development, Gedit, & Javascripter's Guide to GNOME).
Participant |
IRC Nick |
Location |
Project |
Mentor |
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Marta Bogdanowicz |
majek |
Berlin, Germany |
Documentation |
Ekaterina Gerasimova |
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Kasia Bondarava |
kasia |
Minsk, Belarus |
Localization |
Ihar Hrachyshka |
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Christy Eller |
czeller |
Paonia, Colorado, USA |
Web Development and Marketing |
Allan Day |
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Emily Gonyer |
gonyere |
Carrollton, Ohio, USA |
Marketing |
Karen Sandler |
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Jovanka Gulicoska |
gulic |
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia |
Empathy |
Danielle Madeley |
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Susanna Huhtanen |
ihmis-suski |
Helsinki, Finland |
JavaScripter's Guide to GNOME |
Cosimo Cecchi and Johannes Schmid |
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Laura Lazzati |
laulazzati |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
gedit |
Paolo Borelli |
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Mendy Meng |
mendy |
Sydney, Australia |
GTG |
Luca Invernizzi |
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Andiswa Mvanyashe |
andiswa |
Pretoria, South Africa |
Localization |
Friedel Wolff |
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Antigoni Papantoni |
tsinaski |
Lausanne, Switzerland |
Pitivi |
Jeff Fortin |
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Patricia Santana Cruz |
patriciasc |
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
Cheese |
David King |
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Sophia Yu |
sophiay |
Xi'an, China |
Games |
Jason Clinton |
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