[Evergreen-governance-l] Fwd: Outreach Program for Women Internships

[Galen Charlton]

Hi folks,

Regarding this proposal of Bradley's, I would like to discuss this briefly during the meeting today to get a sense of whether this is something we would be interested in participating in, either now or as an activity we budget for in future years.

Regards,

Galen

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
> Date: March 20, 2012 9:40:20 AM EDT
> To: project-reps at sfconservancy.org
> Cc: karen at gnome.org
> Subject: Outreach Program for Women Internships
> 
> Dear Conservancy Project Representatives,
> 
> I know that many of you are participating in the Google Summer of Code
> this year, and congratulations to all projects who got into the program.
> 
> Meanwhile, I wanted to make all of you aware of another mentoring
> program that runs concurrent with the Summer of Code.  It's called the
> "Outreach Program for Women Internships", and it's run each year by the
> GNOME Foundation: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2012
> 
> The GNOME Foundation has invited Conservancy to join the program this
> year.  I've talked privately with a few projects about this, and the
> Conservancy's Twisted Project has agreed to mentor one woman in the
> program.  I'm writing now to ask if other Conservancy projects would
> like to join.
> 
> Since this program is independent of the Summer of Code, it needs to be
> funded by the project itself.  The cost is $5,000 to pay the intern a
> stipend for the program, and mentors are asked to volunteer their time
> to mentor a female intern.  Usually, if the project is also in SoC,
> women are encouraged to simultaneously apply via SoC as well, to
> maximize the number of women applicants to that program as well.
> 
> If anyone who works in your projects are interested in mentoring, and if
> your Project Leadership Committee is willing to spend the $5,000 from
> your project fund to support the program, please get in touch with me.
> Conservancy of course will handle all the administrative aspects for
> you, and do anything else you need to assist in participating in the
> program.
> 
> I've also Cc'ed Karen Sandler, GNOME Foundation's Executive Director,
> who invited Conservancy this year to participate in the program.  Feel
> free to send her questions directly as well about the program.
> 
> I hope a few projects will participate this year.  I look forward to
> hearing from you.  GNOME Foundation has set their deadline of
> applications for early April, and while Conservancy could probably go a
> bit later on the deadline, we should nevertheless get up an announcement
> soon, so please get in touch right away if your project would like to
> participate.
> 
> -- 
> Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy

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