[Sugar-devel] Outreachy

[Dave Crossland]

I think supporting Outreachy, even at a small loss, is worthwhile

On 23 August 2017 at 18:58, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been approached by Outreachy [1] regarding our potential
> participation in the next round (this fall in the northern hemisphere). We
> are just wrapping up our summer program with them, which coincided with
> Google Summer of Code and I think the work accomplished by Prachi, our
> Outreachy intern, was very good [2]. But it came at a price ($6500), which
> was essential a wash, since we got $7000 from Google for our participation
> in GCI. (I expect ~$4500 from the GSoC 2017 program). As you can see from
> the schedule below, we have to move quickly on this, so you timely feedback
> would be appreciated.
>
> Outreach schedule
>     September 7 - application period opens
>     October 23 - contributions and applications are due
>     November 9 - interns announced
>     December 5, 2017 to March 5, 2018 - internship period.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
> [1] https://www.outreachy.org
> [2] https://medium.com/outreachy-diaries/outreachy-2017-3-67ee854ed246
> (She has not written up her final report yet.)
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-- 
Cheers
Dave
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