Hello everyone!
This year, OpenRefine is very happy to participate in
Outreachy
again, an internship program in open source and open science
initiated and run by the
Software Freedom Conservancy.
Outreachy provides paid, remote internships to people subject to
systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical
industry where they are living. For OpenRefine, this is our second
time welcoming and mentoring interns who actively improve our
codebase and, while doing so, gain experience in open source
development.
Our current participation in Outreachy is part of the project
OpenRefine
for Everyone, which focuses on making OpenRefine more useful
for international, multilingual audiences, by removing cultural
biases from the tool. This project has been generously funded by the
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (
Diversity
& Inclusion funding cycle).
From
end May until end
August 2022, we warmly welcome
Elroy Kanye (from
Bamenda, Cameroon) and
Walton Goga (from Nairobi,
Kenya) to our team. Elroy works on the implementation of
server-side
localization in OpenRefine, and is mentored by
Antonin
Delpeuch. Walton
develops
a SPARQL importer, with mentorship from
Antoine
Beaubien. Please join us in welcoming them, and don’t hesitate
to thank them for their contributions as you see them appear in our
repositories!
All the best,
Sandra
This message was also posted on OpenRefine's blog:
https://openrefine.org/blog/2022/06/19/outreachy.html