On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:00:19PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > TL;DR: we've been invited to participate into GNOME Outreach Program for > Women and I'd like to accept the invitation. To maximize impact, though, > we need mentors and topics to complement the current GSoC tasks. OK, so, thanks everyone for the feedback thus far, in particular to Karen and Marina for guidance and further thoughts on the synergies between OPW and GSoC. To go forward we now need (quickly!) a couple of things: 1) a coordinator for Debian participation into OPW 2) (optional) other internship topics to complement the GSoC idea list Francesca has proposed something for (2), but is waiting for feedback from the publicity/press team. Please follow up there if you're interested in those topics and/or if you are willing to volunteer as mentor for related topics. We are stuck on (1). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Given how often we discuss how cool it would be to have more mentoring activities in Debian---and in particular more of such activities aimed at increasing women participation---I was hoping (and still am!) in some more feedback and volunteering. Is anyone up to volunteer as coordinator for Debian participation into OPW? The task looks relatively easy: set up some nice landing page on the Debian wiki, similar to the GNOME one, with a pointer to the GSoC idea list and to a separate page where we will collect non-GSoC internship topic. It could be specific to this round of OPW, but I think it would be way more interesting to take this chance to actually have a more long-lasting list of such projects. Additionally, the coordinator will have to coordinate (sorry) with GSoC admins the applications at the border between the two initiatives. If noone else volunteers for that, I will *consider* doing it myself, but I'd rather not --- mainly because the timeframe of this OPW round coincides with the DPL change of guard and I'd rather devote my Debian time to ensure a smooth transition than joining new activities. So, if you're interested in kickstarting a very valuable mentoring opportunity for Debian, please speak up, ... quickly :-), e.g. a couple of days. Thanks for considering. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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