I would suggest blogging about GsoC and maybe posting about it on the wp discussion pages. There is only one week left!
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Wikimedia contributors, please help spreading this call for Google > Summer of Code candidates in your projects, chapters, and surroundings. > Thank you! > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Quim Gil* <q...@wikimedia.org> > Date: Thursday, March 13, 2014 > Subject: URGENT call for geographical diversity in Wikimedia @ GSoC > To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Please forward this email wisely. Yes, we need your help getting the word > out. > > So far, all our GSoC candidates come from only two (neighbor) countries: > India and Sri Lanka. While we are very happy seeing how popular Wikimedia > is among technical students in the Indian subcontinent, we are concerned > about the lack of candidates from anywhere else. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014#Candidates > > GSoC 2013 had accepted students from 69 countries [1], and we have > participants from eight.[2] We can discuss about the deep causes of this > situation but... Considering that we have less than 9 days before the GSoC > deadline for students (March 21 @ 19:00 UTC) we should focus on finding new > candidates. > > There is still time to become a strong GSoC candidate for Wikimedia. Many > project ideas in our GSoC page (linked above) have mentors available and no > candidates yet. Go for them! Also, since our evaluation of candidates is > based on their proposals published in mediawiki.org, Google's deadline is > not a hard stop to keep improving your plans together with your mentors. > April 7 is when we need to decide how many slots we will request, meaning > how many teams (candidates and mentors with a common plan) we believe that > can complete GSoC 2014 successfully. That date is more than three weeks > from now. > > Diversity is an important factor for Wikimedia. We are putting a lot of > effort promoting gender diversity in our outreach programs, and we are > seeing good progress. It would be surprising to realize that a global > project like Wikimedia has a serious problem with geographical diversity. > Your ideas and actions to fix this situation are welcome. > > [1] https://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramStatistics > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013 > > PS: in comparison, FOSS OPW is doing a lot better, with five candidates > from four countries > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_8#Candidates-- > coincidence? > > > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
