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Outreachy (previously the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women) is a program that organizes three-month paid internships with free and open ...
English: Celebrating 1,000 Outreachy interns, a message displayed on a projector screen in a large university auditorium in Brussels, Belgium. Four speakers at the FOSDEM 2024 conference are standing on stage, facing the audience and presenting.
English: took part in the Outreach Program for Women as an intern in 2013, and became a mentor for the same program in 2014. This talk intends to voice my experience with the GNOME initiative, as well as my thoughts and concerns around the program as a student, a mentor, and a professional in the free software domain, and as an earnest observer of the chaos that is formally called "The Internet."
Outreach Program for Women. Outreach is the activity of providing services to any population that might not otherwise have access to those services. [1] [2] A key component of outreach is that the group providing it is not stationary, but mobile; in other words, it involves meeting someone in need of an outreach service at the location where they are.
Sharp was a volunteer co-coordinator of the Outreachy project, [12] and led a team contributing to the Linux kernel for the project's June 2013 internships. [13] Through their consultancy Otter Tech LLC, they work with Outreachy in a paid capacity, providing code of conduct enforcement training and incidence response workshops. [14] [15]
FOSDEM was started in 2000 [3] under the name Open Source Developers of Europe Meeting (OSDEM) by Raphael Bauduin.Bauduin said that since he felt he lacked the brains to properly contribute to the open-source community, he wanted to contribute by launching a European event in Brussels.
There are initiatives such as Outreachy that aim to support more women and other underrepresented gender identities to participate in open-source software. However, within the discussion forums of open-source projects the topic of gender diversity can be highly controversial and even inflammatory. [ 30 ]
The Contributor Covenant is a code of conduct for contributors to free/open source software projects, created by Coraline Ada Ehmke.Its stated purpose is to reduce harassment of minority, LGBT and otherwise underrepresented open source software developers.