[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: to all member projects: Outreach Program for Women [TIME SENSITIVE]

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Hi All,

I'd like to propose that we find a way to contribute $5,000 to this
initiative.  As a woman-dominated profession, I think it is important that
we facilitate the growth of women developers of Evergreen.  The first
question is whether there is a developer who is willing to do the
mentoring?  The second question is how do we come up with the money.  I
propose we contribute some from our tiny account and seek donations for the
rest from some of our vendor partners and perhaps some of the libraries
themselves.

What do others say?

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tony Sebro <tony at sfconservancy.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Subject: to all member projects: Outreach Program for Women [TIME SENSITIVE]
To: project-reps at sfconservancy.org, "Bradley M. Kuhn" <
bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>


 Hello, all:

As some of you may recall, Conservancy is supporting the Outreach Program
For Women (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012), a GNOME
Foundation-initiated program that provides internships for women interested
in FOSS.  This past summer, Twisted sponsored an internship.

The Outreach Program for Women is in the process of organizing a series of
"Winter" internships for early 2013.  Conservancy would like to invite our
member projects to participate by sponsoring an intern.  Sponsorships cost
$5,000 (paid as a stipend to the intern); in addition, projects are to
designate a mentor to volunteer his/her time to mentor the intern.  So, if
anyone in your project is interested in serving as a mentor, and if your
Project Leadership Committee is willing to allocate $5,000 from your
project fund to support the program, *please let me and Bradley know ASAP*.
Time is short, so if you're interested let us know and we'll provide you
with more details.

This is a wonderful opportunity for member projects to support a program
that will help grow the pool of prospective contributors to our FOSS
communities.  If you have any follow up questions, let us know.  We hope to
hear from you.

Thanks!

Best, -Tony

-- 
Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom
Conservancy+1-212-461-3245
x11tony at sfconservancy.orgwww.sfconservancy.org
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