[UbuntuWomen] [Fwd: Women's Summer Outreach Program 2006]

[Jane Weideman]

In case you haven't heard yet.

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From: Vincent Untz <vincent.untz at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Summer-Administrators-2006 at googlegroups.com
To: Summer-Administrators-2006 at googlegroups.com
Subject: Women's Summer Outreach Program 2006
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:41:18 +0200

Hi,

We have started to announce this everywhere and here is a good place too
since other organizations might be interested in doing something
similar.

Short story: http://www.gnome.org/projects/wsop/

Longer story: The GNOME Foundation is using the money coming from Google
through the SoC projects to sponsor three women during two months. This
will work like Google's SoC except that it's two months and it's only
for women. The goal is to get more women involved in our community in
the long term, since there are really too few women right now. And we
don't want to have women doing the things nobody want to do, but we want
them to work on the same stuff as we're all already working on. You can
see some FAQ and more informations on
http://www.gnome.org/projects/wsop/

We can't just sit and wait, wishing that more women would contribute to
free software: action is required, to try to get a decent numbers of
female contributors. We encourage everyone to do similar programs (and
we can try to help organizations wanting to do so). 

(this is not a Google initiative, it's not related to SoC, if you want
to blame people, blame GNOME people, or better, blame me, if you want to
thank someone, thank the GNOME Foundation (and Google for the money),
etc. ;-))

Cheers,

Vincent

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