Re: Mozilla's participation in the GNOME Outreach Program for Woman

[Larissa Shapiro]

Hi Oliver and all,

We are now in OPW for Summer 2014: https://wiki.mozilla.org/GNOME_Outreach_Summer2014

with a plan to add even more opportunities to future cohorts.

Thanks for the support, and please do share these opportunities with interested potential applicants,

Larissa

>> *From:* Oliver Propst <oliver...@gmail.com>
>> *Date:* March 4, 2014 at 6:36 AM
>> *To:* "mark...@lists.mozilla.org" <mark...@lists.mozilla.org>, wo...@lists.womoz.org
>> *Subject:* Mozilla's participation in the GNOME Outreach Program for Woman
>> Hi,
>> Right now the GNOME Outreach Program for Women are accepting
>> applications (deadline 19 March) [1,2]. I find it strange (and of sad)
>> that Mozilla are not officially participating in this round of
>> the program when Mozilla have done it before [3]. Is there any
>> particular reason this?
>>
>> I think the program represents an excellent opportunity to increase
>> the participation in the project as well as to introduce poeple
>> (femle) to free/open source collaboration.
>>
>> I guess its to late to start a infinitive around the current round,
>> given that the application deadline are on March 19. I think we should
>> work to ensure that this situation do not occur again (if there is no
>> particular reason for Mozilla not to participate in the program).
>>
>> 1 https://gnome.org/opw/‎
>> 2 https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
>> 3 https://wiki.mozilla.org/GNOME_Outreach_December2013
>>