Outreachy is great and we should add that to a list of things to look into re our efforts, working with them, etc. I met Karen Sandler in person once and she is good people.
On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 19:56, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 2:59 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I asked the D&I folks at $dayjob for some advice / suggestions and got > > back the following: > > > > 1. Mozilla have been doing some work in this area. It was suggested we > > reach out to them to get the benefit of their experience. Anyone have > > any contacts there? > > > If you are interested in parallel and active projects, the Women outreach > SIG > within the GNOME project is a really interesting and successful case study. > > I haven't tracked them in real-time, so I'm surprised/pleased by one > particular fruit of their efforts; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outreachy > which Mozilla too turns out to be a huge champion of. The history topic > on that page plus footnotes are useful starting points. >
