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Debian is participating in the 12th Round of Outreachy.

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.

Thanks to the efforts of the program organizers, Outreachy has now been expanded to other underrepresented groups in the Free Software community, which is perfectly in line with Debian's Diversity Statement

For whom

From The main program page

• (i) you are a resident or national of any country or region other than Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Sudan and identify as a woman (cis or trans), trans man, or genderqueer person (including genderfluid or genderfree) or (ii) you are a resident or national of the United States of any gender who is Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander
• you are or will be 18 years of age or older by May 23, 2016
• you have not previously participated in an Outreachy, Outreach Program for Women, or Google Summer of Code internship
• you are available for a full-time, 40 hours a week internship, and you will not be in school full-time and will not have another full-time job for at least seven weeks between May 23 and August 23, 2016; being enrolled in school during a semester when you are taking more than half of the typical number of credits a full-time student takes or having an exams session is considered to be a full-time school commitment; Outreachy can be done to satisfy a project requirement and receive credits for it, in which case all other credits received during the semester should be no more than half of the typical number of credits a full-time student takes
• you are eligible to work in the country or countries in which you will reside throughout the duration of the program
• you are not a person or entity restricted by US export controls or sanctions programs

Timeline

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. Submit your application on the Outreachy website: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Submit_an_Application

4. Make sure you notify us that you have done so : email <outreach AT debian DOT org> and the mentors for your project with a link to your application

Please, read more about this program here: http://gnome.org/outreachy and https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/

Projects

NOTE: in the May-August session the projects are listed on the Google Summer of Code Projects page; you are welcome to apply for Outreachy with any of the project ideas listed on that page.

We ask all Outreachy applicants who are students and coders to also apply for Google Summer of Code. You can apply for both programs with the same project proposal. The program administrators will coordinate the selection process to ensure that we accept the top applicants through one of the programs.

Where to start

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

• IRC: #debian-women in the OFTC network (irc.debian.org)

• Lists: http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/

Coordinators of the program:

• Nicolas Dandrimont <olasd AT debian DOT org>

• Tom Marble <tmarble AT info9 DOT net>

Applications

See ?Applications