Hi Niclas Thanks for the info. Taking a quick look at it and it seems that in general the Outreachy program is not only women and within the US at least it's also open to under-represented groups. I'll take a more detailed look at it to see if it could help us with encouraging diversity.
Thanks Sharan On 2016-06-26 04:24 (+0200), Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: > Everyone, > > I met with Cosimo Cecchi, on of the Board directors of GNOME Foundation, in > Beijing over these last couple of days. > > At some point "female participation in OSS" came up, and he suggested us to > get involved with Outreachy, a kind of Google Summer of Code, but > exclusively for women. It originated at GNOME Foundation, but was handed > over to Software Freedom Conservancy. > He claims that it has worked very well for them. > > I offer this advice to those who have interest to run with it. > > Cheers > Niclas > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
