<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Unless I hear otherwise, I plan to submit an application to Outreachy [1] on behalf of Sugar Labs. Outreachy is an SFC program that helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software get involved. I'm also preparing a SL Outreachy landing page in the wiki [2].<div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/" target="_blank">https://www.gnome.org/<wbr>outreachy/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Outreachy" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Outreachy</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was not 100% up to speed when I sent this note last week. It seems we need to come up with funds for at least 1 intern ($5500). I think it is a worthwhile expenditure from our general funds, especially in light of the many $1000s we have gotten from Google for mentoring students. That said, I will also do my best to raise at least some of the funds from external sources. But I do need a thumbs up (or down) from the Oversight Board in short order.</div><div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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