Re: debian-women / female GSoC candidates
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Just a follow up on this
The GSoC student deadline is about to pass and Debian has several
female applicants.
Two of the applicants for one of my projects are female students who
previously applied to Outreach Program for Women in 2013.
Juliana (from Brazil):
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/StudentApplications/JulianaLouback
Chandrika (from India):
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/StudentApplications/ChandrikaParimoo
Therefore, as we begin the evaluation/selection phase, I am
particularly keen to establish if anybody from the debian-women group
would want to collaborate either officially or unofficially on this.
Reading through the minutes from the successful women's mini-DebConf,
I notice there is some interest in attracting women from more diverse
locations and also reaching out to younger women. Besides GSoC, the
whole multimedia and RTC space itself is highly relevant to these
ambitions.
The full list of projects and applicants is here:
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/StudentApplications
On 14/03/14 13:42, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote:
> * Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> [2014-03-14 10:23:35
> +0100]:
>
>> On 14/03/14 10:15, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>>> 2014-03-14 10:02 GMT+01:00 Daniel Pocock
>>> <daniel@pocock.com.au>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> There are several female candidates for GSoC (both in Debian
>>>> and also in Ganglia where I am one of the admins this year)
>>>>
>>>> I'm just wondering if there are any female DDs who may not
>>>> want to be a mentor for any arbitrary project but may
>>>> participate as a co-mentor on a project where there is a
>>>> female student?
>>>>
>>>> For example, while one mentor may be able to help the student
>>>> with the technical aspects of the project, an additional
>>>> mentor may be able to help the student become familiar with
>>>> the community at large even if they don't have time to become
>>>> fully involved in the individual GSoC project.
>>> I think it's a great Idea, and probably more productive than
>>> doing any of both things alone. Would it help if the female
>>> co-mentor is familiar with the project itself, or it's totally
>>> irrelevant? Like, for example, say that the project involves
>>> aspects thet the co-mentor is not familiar with (like a
>>> particular programming language or the tools used for
>>> developing whatever the project is about), or the idea is to
>>> keep both things -development of the project and involvement
>>> in debian structures- independent?
>>
>> Any positive contribution from a co-mentor is going to be very
>> welcome
>>
>> Knowing the tools and technologies is obviously beneficial but it
>> is not everything.
>>
>> There have been several cases where projects have been completed
>> but it has not been possible to deploy them or utilize them
>> within Debian. In these cases what has been missing is the
>> interaction with the wider community, DSA, etc - so just having
>> somebody who knows the way the community operates can help close
>> that gap.
>>
>> In the past, many of the students have attended DebConf as well -
>> if there are several co-mentors on the project, there is more
>> probability that one will be able to meet the student at DebConf
>
> Hi,
>
> I just stumbled across this thread, and I agree that it is a great
> idea to seek help from other people to integrate our GSoC students
> better in our community. We welcome any effort to that effect, be
> that under the debian-women umbrella for women interns
> specifically, or from anybody really.
>
> If you want to keep in touch with GSoC activities, you can
> subscribe to the soc-coordination mailing list on alioth[1], where
> the students can send their enquiries and will report on their
> projects.
>
> Thanks a bunch!
>
> [1]
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
>
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