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Hi all,<br>
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I meant to forward this along yesterday, but I got pulled in another
direction. Outreachy (new name for the Outreach Project for Women)
wants to know if we are interested in participating again for the
summer. <br>
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It would require a quick turnaround time. They had put out a call
for organizations to participate last month. At the time, we were
also working on an application for GSoC for this summer. Because the
number of developers available to mentor GSoC projects was small and
our project ideas were limited to just two (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:summer_of_coding_ideas#project_ideas">http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:summer_of_coding_ideas#project_ideas</a>),
it was clear that the community could only support one coding
internship project this summer. Therefore, I did not follow up on
seeing if anyone wanted to pursue Outreachy again.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, the Evergreen community was not accepted into GSoC.
When we received the news, I thought it was too late to participate
in Outreachy, but it turns out I was wrong. If we wanted to
participate, we would need funding lined up and a commitment made in
about a week. It would also end up being a shortened application
period for the potential interns, which can be particularly
problematic for Evergreen since the bar is somewhat high to install
Evergreen and get a code contribution in by the deadline.<br>
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Having said that, I do know there were a few women who had shown an
interest in working on an Evergreen project. I think we heard from
two who were interested in Awesome Box, as well as another who had a
project idea of her own that is not on this list. Since I put in
some work on the GSoC application, I would be available to
co-administer the program with somebody else. <br>
<br>
In addition to needing a volunteer to co-administer with me, we also
would need somebody to see if they can line up funding over the next
week. We used community funds for the internship the first time
around, but I think my proposal at the time was to use community
funds to see how well it worked and to seek outside funding if we
wanted to do it again. The total cost of the program is $6,500. I
just don't have the time right now to do the work that's needed to
line up funding.<br>
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My personal opinion is that it's a lot of work to do in a short
period of time. However, the decision really belongs to the
community, so I'm sending this along to see if there's anyone
interested in picking up the ball to make the funding happen.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Kathy<br>
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<td>Evergeen in Outreachy?</td>
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<td>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:12:31 -0400 (EDT)</td>
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<td>Marina Zhurakhinskaya <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marinaz@redhat.com"><marinaz@redhat.com></a></td>
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<td>Kathy Lussier <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org"><klussier@masslnc.org></a></td>
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<pre>Hi Kathy,
Apologies for reaching out to you so late in the application process, but I wanted to check in to see whether you wanted to get Evergreen to participate again in Outreachy. We can probably add Evergreen with a late application deadline of April 7. The timeline for the current round is at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/MayAugust">https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/MayAugust</a>
Warmest regards,
Marina
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