Name: Marina Zhurakhinskaya Email: [email protected] Affiliation: Red Hat Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/marina
Dear Foundation, I have been working on GNOME for the last five years, as a developer of online-desktop and gnome-shell and as a lead of our outreach efforts. With the help of so many people in the community, three and a half years ago I created the Outreach Program for Women which enabled 49 women to do internships with GNOME and significantly increased participation of women in the community. This program has grown to include internships with 18 Free Software organizations this summer. I applied my experience in organizing outreach to women to improving our outreach and engagement with all new contributors. I made the mentors list we started for the program a general resource and introduced first patch and blogging requirements for our Google Summer of Code students. I follow other outreach efforts in Free Software and try to bring the best practices to GNOME. For example, after seeing OpenHatch workshop participants learn a lot by following step-by-step missions, I created, with the help o f others, a newcomers tutorial for GNOME that 40 new contributors have completed so far. I would like to serve on the board to have a broader view into how we can ensure that GNOME is thriving as a project and a community, and to find the most effective ways I can apply my abilities and experience to help make it happen. Thanks, Marina _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
