Hi, Is this funded by the WMF? I noticed it in the list of "promoters" but was unable to discern whether there was funding involved.
Regards, Vermont On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:00 PM Gopa Vasanth <gopavasanth1...@gmail.com> wrote: > *(feel free to forward the message as is to your friends, family members > &colleagues)* > > Hello folks, > > We would like to invite you to apply to the Outreachy program with the > Wikimedia Foundation (a non-profit organization behind Wikipedia)! > > *About the Outreachy program* > > Wikimedia will be mentoring ~6 projects in the Outreachy’s December 2020 to > February 2021 Round, around data science and engineering. The initial > applications are due *September 20th at 4 pm UTC*. > > Apply today: <https://www.outreachy.org/apply/> [1] > > Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open > Source Software (FOSS) projects, coding, and non-coding related (e.g., > design, documentation, translation, outreach, and research), with > experienced mentors. Outreachy internships run twice a year – from May to > August and December to March. Interns are paid a stipend of USD 5,500 for > the three months of work. They also have a USD 500 stipend to travel to > conferences and events. Interns often find employment after their > internship with Outreachy sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they > learned during their internship. > > Outreachy is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly > invites the following people to apply: > > * Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. > * Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or discrimination > in the technology industry in their country of residence is invited to > apply. > * Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are > Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian, > Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. > > Browse through the participants’ guides, to learn more about the > application process steps < > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants> [2] > > > *About the Wikimedia Foundation* > The Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> [3] is the > nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other > Wikimedia free knowledge projects < > https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/> [4]. Our > vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum > of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute > something to our shared knowledge and that everyone should be able to > access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia > projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing > Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make > Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and > free knowledge to thrive. > > We hope you will help us spread the word about Wikimedia’s participation in > these programs: < > https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999/status/1299566047423377408> [5] (by > retweeting the post in the link or by sharing this email). > > Looking forward to your participation! > > Cheers, > > Pavithra, Gopa Vasanth & Srishti (Wikimedia organization administrators for > Outreachy) > > [1] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/ > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants > [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/ > [5] https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999/status/1299566047423377408 > > -- > Regards > > Gopa Vasanth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gopavasanth> > Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham <http://www.amrita.edu/> | Blog > <https://gopavasanth.wordpress.com/> > amFOSS <https://amfoss.in/@gopavasanth> | GitHub > <https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth> > > “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
