Forwarding to this list, just in case you ro someone you know is interested. You need to be tech-curious for this volunteering role, but developer skills are not required. Community management and project management skills are more necessary.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:38 AM Subject: Looking for a co-org-admin for Outreachy 11 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, we are looking for volunteers willing to get involved in the organization of Wikimedia's participation in the upcoming round of Outreachy, a program to involve underrepresented communities in open source projects. https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ Experienced org admins like Niharika Kohli, Andre Klapper and myself are looking forward to support new volunteers in this role. We also have a solid and reasonably well documented process in place helping the onboarding of new org admins, mentors, and interns. This is a good chance to grow your tech community management experience in a safe and supportive context, dedicating about 2-4 hours per week between October and February. About half year ago, I asked for volunteers to become co-org-admins of the upcoming Google Summer of Code and Outreachy round. Niharika Kohli answered back, and she has been an amazing org admin since then. I'm not exaggerating when I say that her involvement has been one of the best things impacting my work this year. She has learned and enjoyed a lot, and she has been very helpful to the interns and mentors that are concluding their projects as we speak. Interested? Just reply to this email or comment at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112267 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
