Outreach Program for Women interns announced

2010-11-10 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Cheese - Daniel Siegel * Hellyna Ng, Johor, Malaysia / Singapore - GNOME Shell - Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Natalia Andrea Ruz Leiva, Valparaíso, Chile - Documentation - Paul Cutler * Chandni Verma, Lucknow, India - Empathy - Danielle Madeley In addition, the GNOME Foundation is spon

Re: Boston Summit?

2012-04-28 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
I'm also considering going to Grace Hopper, especially if the panel proposal I'm a part of gets accepted. The speaker notifications for Grace Hopper will happen May 17th. I know there might be just a few of us for whom it will matter, but if Joanie was brave enough to ask, I'd like to second her

newcomer experience survey

2012-11-07 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi! Kevin Carillo is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington whose research topic is about the influence of newcomer experience on contributor behaviour and performance in Free and Open Source Software communities. He has put together a reall

adding project ideas for the Outreach Program for Women

2012-11-12 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, The GNOME Foundation is getting ready to announce a new round of the Outreach Program for Women internships. This time, we are being joined by several other free software organizations - Deltacloud, Fedora, JBoss, OpenStack, Tor, and Wikimedia. We are really excited to be growing the pr

Re: newcomer experience survey - REMINDER

2012-11-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
this survey. https://limesurvey.sim.vuw.ac.nz/index.php?sid=65151&lang=en Thanks! Marina - Original Message - From: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" To: "foundation-list" Cc: "Kevin Carillo" Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 4:48:05 PM Subject: newcomer exp

interesting numbers from the newcomer survey and why you should take part

2012-11-26 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Kevin Carillo shared with me some interesting numbers about the participants of the newcomer experience survey so far. Total number of participants: 276 Total number of female participants: 32 Number of GNOME participants: 37 Number of female GNOME participants: 21 Number of male GNOME p

Outreach Program for Women project ideas

2013-03-31 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, We are getting ready for a new round of OPW and you can add non-coding project ideas you are particularly excited to mentor at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram/2013/JuneSeptember This is in addition to the mentors listing at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove/Mentors , w

Re: GNOME Love flyer and help

2013-04-05 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Alexandre Franke" > To: "Foundation List" > Sent: Friday, April 5, 2013 5:39:32 AM > Subject: Re: GNOME Love flyer and help > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya > wrote: > > Hi all, >

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-22 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Fabiana Simões" > To: "Foundation List" > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:22:45 AM > Subject: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates > > Hello all, > > First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board. > > We have a number

Re: A Question for New Candidates

2013-05-22 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Allan Day" > To: "foundation-list" > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:12:45 AM > Subject: A Question for New Candidates > > Hi everyone, > > Big thanks to everyone who has put themselves forward as a board > candidate. It's really awesome that you are willing

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-22 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Brian Cameron" > To: "GNOME Foundation" > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:16:48 AM > Subject: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates > > > My question to the candidates: > > For returning board members, what are 3 conrete accomplishments on the > boar

Welcome interns!

2013-05-27 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, GNOME accepted 32 Google Summer of Code interns and 7 Outreach Program for Women interns! Additionally, of the students who submitted the same proposal with GNOME and another organization, the Mono Project accepted a student to work on F-Spot and PiTiVi accepted 3 students. All the inte

Re: Questions for candidates

2013-05-29 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Germán Póo-Caamaño" > To: "Foundation List" > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:21:46 PM > Subject: Questions for candidates > > Hello, > > I also thanks people running for the board. I would like to know: > > In order to be in the board, what are you going

Re: Question to candidates

2013-05-29 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Gil Forcada" > To: "foundation-list" > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:17:42 PM > Subject: Question to candidates > > Hi all! > > First of all thanks for running for being elected as a director of the > foundation. > > I saw that most of your candidacy descri

ideas for the new OPW round and spreading the word

2013-10-07 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, We are opening an application process for the new round of the Outreach Program for Women, with an application deadline on November 11, and internships from December 10 to March 10. If you have an idea for a specific project you might like to mentor, please add it to https://wiki.gnome

LibrePlanet call for sessions open, March 22-23, 2014 in Cambridge, MA

2013-11-17 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Bellow is the e-mail from Libby Reinish, Campaigns Manager at the FSF. When Karen asked in her keynote last year at LibrePlanet who was using GNOME 3, the majority of people in the audience raised their hands. It would be great to have some GNOME-themed talks there! Thanks, Marina ---

FLOSS Survey 2013 - please participate!

2013-11-17 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Below is an invitation to participate in the FLOSS Survey 2013. Please participate and spread the word! Thanks, Marina --- Ten years after the successful FLOSS survey with over 2500 respondents, which had a major impact in community, academia and even politics, we want to rec

Flock 2014 dates

2014-01-14 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi, Flock, Fedora contributor conference, planners are working on figuring out Flock dates in Prague this summer, taking into account the dates for GUADEC. Please take the survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tL84UuDx72mHsNay5L2g3C0STH40oJFA_rO8GhJUW20/viewform if you might consider atte

GSoC and OPW are ON!

2014-02-25 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, GNOME was accepted for GSoC and we are organizing OPW! \\o// Thanks to so many mentors who've already listed project ideas. It's not too late to add more coding ideas, which are shared between GSoC and OPW [1]. Also, please add your non-coding ideas for OPW [2]. In the next 3 weeks, pr

Re: New challenge

2014-04-01 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi Karen, Thank you so much for all your hard work for the GNOME Foundation! I have been so fortunate to have a chance to work closely with you and learn from you. You've been a mentor, an inspiration, and a friend! Thank you for helping grow the OPW to include many organizations beyond GNOME!

Flock CFP closes tomorrow

2014-04-02 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi, Flock, Fedora's annual conference, will be held in Prague, Czech Republic August 6-9, 2014, which is a week after GUADEC. The call for proposals closes tomorrow. Please consider submitting one! Call for proposals: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.core.announce/2927 Regis

Welcome interns!

2014-04-21 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, GNOME accepted 35 Google Summer of Code and 3 Outreach Program for Women interns! Additionally, one student submitted the same proposal with GNOME and with the Mono Project to work on F-Spot, and was accepted by the Mono Project. All the interns made a contribution to the project they w

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-25 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Sindhu S" > To: "Emmanuele Bassi" > Cc: "foundation-announce" , "GNOME Foundation" > > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:22:43 AM > Subject: Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014 > > > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Dave Neary" > To: "Foundation-List" > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 12:58:21 PM > Subject: Question for candidates > > Hi everyone, > > For me, the defining thing the next board will do is hire a successor to > Karen Sandler as executive director of the found

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Max" > To: "foundation-list" > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:18:33 PM > Subject: Question for candidates > > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for run the board. > This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go). > GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Emily Chen" > To: "foundation-list" > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 11:16:14 AM > Subject: Question for candidates > > Hi, > > > I would like to ask below questions to future board: > > > 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what i

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Jim Nelson" > To: "Foundation List" > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:19:37 PM > Subject: Questions for the candidates: finances > > Hello everyone, > > First, I'd like to voice my support for Dave Neary's question. I also believe > finding an executive direc

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Catanzaro" > To: "David King" > Cc: "foundation-list" > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 7:48:54 PM > Subject: Re: Question for candidates > > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: > > Finally, and only once the financial situation is more

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" > To: "Oliver Propst" > Cc: "foundation-announce" , "Foundation-List" > , > electi...@gnome.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:17:26 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler > > Hi Karen, > >

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Marina Zhurakhinskaya

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Oliver Propst" > To: "Foundation-List" > Cc: "foundation-announce" > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:28:05 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Marina > Zhurakhinska

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "David King" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" , "Foundation-List" > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:13:20 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candida

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Ekaterina Gerasimova" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "foundation-list" > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:12:35 AM > Subject: Re: Question for candidates > > On 20 May 2014 01:55, Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Andy Tai" > To: "GNOME Foundation" > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:56:16 PM > Subject: question for candidates > > Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates: > > GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ > deve

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Richard Stallman" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: emilychen...@gmail.com, foundation-list@gnome.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 6:25:22 AM > Subject: Re: Question for candidates > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI

Re: Supporting the free software movement

2014-06-03 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Richard Stallman" > To: foundation-list@gnome.org > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 6:22:38 AM > Subject: Supporting the free software movement > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 1sd

2014-07-01 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi Sindhu, The board consisted of a different set of people in 2013-2014, so they reacted differently when faced with a question about a visa reimbursement. This prompted reviewing the current policy, which is what we are working on now. Thanks, Marina - Original Message - From: "Sindh

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-07 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi folks, The board discussed the future handling of OPW at length in a meeting on Wednesday, August 30 at GUADEC. Let's wait for the minutes of that meeting to be published before continuing the discussion, as they will inform it. Thanks, Marina ___

Call for OPW project ideas

2014-09-26 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Dear Foundation, The application process for the new round of Outreach Program for Women internships has recently started, and we are looking for people willing to mentor GNOME projects in this round. Because we only usually have a few participants in OPW, this round we would only like to offer

Re: Call for OPW project ideas

2014-09-27 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Germán Poo-Caamaño" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "GNOME Foundation" , "desktop-devel-list" > > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 11:23:34 AM > Subject: Re: Call for OPW project ideas >

Re: Call for OPW project ideas

2014-09-27 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Germán Poo-Caamaño" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "GNOME Foundation" , "desktop-devel-list" > > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 12:44:13 PM > Subject: Re: Call for OPW project ideas >

Sign up for Boston Summit

2014-09-27 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Dear Foundation, The Boston Summit is coming up in just two weeks, on Saturday, October 11 - Monday, October 13. Please add your name to the wiki if you plan to attend, add topics you would like to discuss, and blog about your plans for the event. Having an idea of how many participants are exp

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

2015-02-04 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
oard meeting possibly during the Conservency dinner. We > generally have enough members do one at FOSDEM. This time we did not > have a quorom unfortunately. > > sri > > > Stormy > > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Andrea Veri < a...@gnome.org > w

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-15 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Magdalen Berns" > To: "Tobias Mueller" > Cc: "GNOME Foundation" > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:35:17 AM > Subject: Re: foundation application.. > > > > > This is not a complicated process, it is fairly clear and transparent > > (especially when compa

GSoC and Outreachy are ON!

2015-03-07 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, GNOME was accepted for GSoC and is participating in Outreachy! \\o// Thanks to mentors who've already listed GSoC project ideas! We currently only have four GSoC ideas, which are still open to new applicants, so please consider adding your idea if you are willing to mentor this summer [

Re: GSoC and Outreachy are ON!

2015-03-10 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2015/Ideas Thanks, Marina - Original Message - From: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" To: "desktop-devel-list" , "GNOME Foundation" , "gnome-soc-list" , "gnome-women-list" Cc: "soc-admins" , gnom

code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-23 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi, Thanks to all the candidates for stepping up to run for the board and for all the work you already do for the Foundation! Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for their events [1] and some for their communities [2]. Detailed codes of conduct with specific enforcem

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-26 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Josh Triplett" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "foundation-list" > Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2015 1:06:49 PM > Subject: Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates > > On Sat, May 23, 20

mentor, apply, or spread the word for Outreachy

2015-10-05 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, GNOME is participating in Outreachy in the upcoming December round! For this round, the program expanded to be open to people of color underrepresented in tech in the U.S., in addition to being open to women, trans men, and genderqueer people internationally. You can learn more about th

mentor for Outreachy!

2016-02-18 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Thanks to a confirmed sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation, GNOME is participating in Outreachy in the upcoming May round! Please consider adding your project idea and yourself as a mentor at https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/Outreachy/2016/MayAugust to help someone from an underreprese

mentor for Outreachy!

2016-09-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Thanks to a confirmed sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation, GNOME is participating in Outreachy in the upcoming December round! Please consider adding your project idea and yourself as a mentor at https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/Outreachy/2016/DecemberMarch to help someone from an und

mentor for Outreachy!

2017-02-15 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Thanks to a confirmed sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation, GNOME is participating in Outreachy in the upcoming May - August round! Please consider adding your project idea and yourself as a mentor at https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/Outreachy/2017/MayAugust to help someone from an und

Mentor for and promote Outreachy!

2017-09-28 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Thanks to a confirmed sponsorship from Red Hat, GNOME is participating in Outreachy in the upcoming December round! Please consider adding your project idea and yourself as a mentor at https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/Outreachy/2017/DecemberMarch to help someone from an underrepresented

Re: Mentor for and promote Outreachy!

2017-09-29 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
is sufficient for GNOME to participate in Outreachy. I am checking with other potential sponsors about whether they want to sponsor additional interns. Thanks, Marina - Original Message - From: "Carlos Soriano" To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" Cc: "desktop-devel

All project ideas for Outreachy need to be submitted by March 7

2018-03-04 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Thanks to a confirmed sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation, GNOME is participating in Outreachy in the upcoming May round! Outreachy has a new system for listing project ideas and for applying for the program, and all project ideas need to be added through this system by mentors by Mar

All project ideas for Outreachy need to be submitted by October 10

2018-10-01 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
Hi all, The GNOME Foundation has confirmed funding for three spots in Outreachy for the December round! If you would like to mentor this round, please head to https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/gnome/submit-project/ as soon as possible and submit your project idea there. All project idea

Sign-up to mentor a project for Outreachy by March 10

2019-03-06 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
Hi all, The GNOME Foundation has confirmed funding for three spots in Outreachy for the May round! If you would like to mentor this round, please head to https://www.outreachy.org/may-2019-august-2019-outreachy-internships/communities/gnome/submit-project/ as soon as possible and submit your pr

Sign-up to mentor a project or apply for Outreachy by September 23

2019-09-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
Hi all, The GNOME Foundation has confirmed funding for three spots in Outreachy for the December 2019 round! If you would like to mentor this round, please head to https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/gnome/submit-project/ as soon as possible and submi

Re: Sign-up to mentor a project or apply for Outreachy by September 23

2019-09-23 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
09 AM Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Hi all, > > The GNOME Foundation has confirmed funding for three spots in Outreachy > for the December 2019 round! If you would like to mentor this round, please > head to > https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-

Sign-up to mentor a project or apply for Outreachy by February 24

2020-02-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
Hi all, The GNOME Foundation has confirmed funding for three spots in Outreachy for the May 2020 round! If you would like to mentor this round, please head to https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2020-internship-round/communities/gnome/submit-project/ as soon as possible and submit your project

Sign-up to mentor a project for Outreachy by September 29

2020-09-26 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
Hi all, I'm happy to let you know that Kristi Progri and Felipe Borges are joining me as co-coordinators for Outreachy! Thank you both for stepping up for this role! The GNOME Foundation has confirmed funding for three spots in Outreachy for the December 2020 round. If you would like to mentor th

Re: Sign-up to mentor a project for Outreachy by September 29

2020-09-28 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 10:53 PM Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm happy to let you know that Kristi Progri and Felipe Borges are joining > me as co-coordinators for Outreachy! Thank you both for stepping up for > this role! > > The GNOME Foundation has c

Apply for Outreachy by Feb 22 or sign-up to mentor a project by Mar 3

2021-02-21 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya via foundation-list
Hi all, The GNOME Foundation has confirmed funding for three spots in Outreachy for the May 2021 round! Initial Outreachy applications are due by 4pm UTC on February 22, which is tomorrow. If you are interested in participating or know someone who might be, you can learn more at https://www.outre