Re: Mentor for and promote Outreachy!

Sounds good, thanks for the work on that!

Best
--
Carlos Soriano
GNOME Foundation
Treasurer, Board of Directors


On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> In the previous rounds, GNOME Foundation preferred that the sponsorship is provided by some other organization, when possible, while also making the sponsorship available when necessary. This round, I was able to line up $6,500 in sponsorship towards one intern from Red Hat, which 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" <[email protected]>
> To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "desktop-devel-list" <[email protected]>, "foundation-list" <[email protected]>, "gnome-women-list" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 3:35:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Mentor for and promote Outreachy!
>
> (removed from CC everyone except foundation-list and Marina)
>
> Hello Marina,
>
> That sounds good!
>
> Just a question, what is the sponsorship of Red Hat and how that
> influences whether GNOME can participate in Outreachy? Couldn't we
> sponsor the students from the GNOME foundation money?
>
> Best
> --
> Carlos Soriano
> GNOME Foundation
> Treasurer, Board of Directors
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 4:16 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 background become a part of our community.
>>
>> Because GNOME only usually has a few participants in Outreachy, we are looking to offer projects that are most strategic for GNOME. These include, but are not limited to, projects in the area of privacy, GTK+, core experience, core applications, developer experience, and development infrastructure.
>>
>> Please add your ideas as soon as possible. The application period for Outreachy is already open and the application deadline is October 23.
>>
>> You can help spread the word about Outreachy by using the flyer, tweet, or prepared e-mail text from https://www.outreachy.org/promote/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marina
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