[Sugar-devel] Outreachy

[Samson Goddy]

I like the idea... +1

Samson

On Aug 23, 2017 8:31 PM, "Dave Crossland" <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> 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.)
>> <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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