Collabora sponsors the GNOME Outreach Program for Women Interns
Collabora is proud to be sponsoring the GNOME project Outreach Program for Women Interns again this year. The GNOME Foundation have made a press release about this Program. An excerpt is below:
"Groton, MA, November 16 2011 -- In each of the previous six years, at most one female student participated in Google Summer of Code in GNOME. This year, there were seven. The GNOME Outreach Program for Women attracted these applicants and connected them with mentors, who helped them with their first contribution. While creating and landing the required contribution, the applicants learned first-hand the steps and technology involved in the project's development and how gratifying and even addictive it is to contribute to Free Software...
There were also eight women who participated in the GNOME Outreach Program for Women internships during the same time period as Google Summer of Code...The detailed accomplishments of all the women who worked on GNOME as interns this summer can be found here.
Thanks to generous sponsors, Collabora, Google, Mozilla, Red Hat and the GNOME Foundation, GNOME was able to accept twelve strong candidates for the new round. These twelve women from North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia will be working on GNOME technology, documentation, marketing and localization from December 12, 2011 to March 12, 2012.
"We're really happy to be supporting the Outreach Program for Women again this year", says Robert McQueen, CTO and Co-Founder at Free and Open Source Software consultancy Collabora. "We've always seen really great results working with the interns from the program both when mentoring their work on our projects, and more widely as new contributors to the GNOME community.""
For the full press release please visit the GNOME Foundation website