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Outreach Program For Women poster

Debian is participating in the 9th Round of the Free & Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women.

Background

Debian has been encouraging women to increase their engagement in the free software community for many years. We strongly believe this is a win-win situation for women (who open up new opportunities for themselves through community networking) and the wider free software movement (who benefit from the untapped potential of talented female developers). Statistics show that although we have increased the number of women participants, we still have plenty of room to grow. With this initiative we hope more women will see opportunities to become involved in the Debian project.

For whom

Any woman who has not previously participated in an Outreach Program for Women or Google Summer of Code and is not yet a Debian Developer nor a Debian Maintainer. There is no age restriction and you don't need to be a student to apply.

Timeline

September 22

application period opens

September 22 - October 21

applicants need to get in touch with at least one project and make a contribution to it

October 22

application deadline at 7pm UTC

November 12

accepted participants announced on https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/2014/DecemberMarch/

December 9 - March 9

internship period

What to do

  1. Choose a project

  2. Make a small contribution.
    • Once you have chosen your project, contact its corresponding mentor and ask him/her what small contribution related to the project you could do.
  3. Send an application. To send your application for participating in a Debian project, you should:
    1. use the Application Template

    2. add your application to the OPW Applications list

    3. email opw@debian.org with a link to your application

Please, read more about this program here: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen

Projects

We offer two kind of projects: coding projects and non-coding projects.

debsources improvements

AppArmor profiles for widely used applications

The intern will create AppArmor profiles for diverse applications, in particular Gnome applications and test each of them. Furthermore, she should test and adapt existing profiles and document best practices how to deliver an AppArmor profile.

Improvements should be made to the Debian Bugtracking System by adding relevant usertags. Existing profiles should be proposed to be integrated into existing Debian packages or upstream.

To lower the barrier for using AppArmor on Debian, and if there is time left, one could also imagine to code a tool which would make it easier to de/activate AppArmor profiles and automatically activate the AppArmor kernel module for lambda users.

Writing/Improving Debbugs documentation (tentative, noncoding)

TEMPLATE: Title of the project

Where to start

Debian is a huge project, so we have created a welcoming atmosphere:

Coordinators of the program:

Former coordinators:

Applications

Round 9

Applicant

Project/s

Contribution/Task