The document summarizes the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (OPW), which is an internship program organized by the GNOME Foundation to encourage women to become involved in free and open source software projects. It provides background on how the program was inspired by Google Summer of Code and initially started in 2006, and how it has grown over time, holding two rounds of internships per year since 2010. It describes how OPW compares to GSoC and provides information on how to apply, application deadlines, and shares one applicant's experience interning with the Commotion Wireless Project through OPW.

1. GNOME Outreach Program
for Women (OPW)

2. What is GNOME OPW?
GNOME OPW is an internship program organized
by the GNOME Foundation to encourage women to
become active members of the fast-growing Free
and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement and
community. The program is held biannually.

3. A little background
● OPW derives inspiration from Google Summer of
Code (GSoC).
● GSoC was started in 2005. Very few women applied
overall, and none applied for GNOME.
● That got GNOME thinking. The Foundation decided
to address the issue and it sponsored a certain number
of women for coding projects.

4. A little background ...contd.
● The sponsorships were independent of GSoC and
were meant only for GNOME projects.
● The experiment ran in 2006. The three subsequent
years ran dry.
● In 2010, GNOME once again came out with
internship offers for women.
● The initiative even got a name – GNOME OPW.

5. A little background ...contd.
● The internship program was held not once, but
twice every year, and the first instance (in 2010)
came to be designated as Round 1.
● In 2012, the program got a major makeover.
Projects from organizations other than GNOME
were included as well.

6. GSoC and OPW compared
GSoC OPW
Open to men and women Open to anyone who identifies as
a woman
Open to only students Open to non-students as well
Includes only coding projects Includes non-coding projects as
well, such as those related to
documentation, designing and
translation
Held once a year Held twice a year

7. How to apply

8. Information points
● https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
● #opw IRC channel onGIMPNet (irc.gnome.org)
● @fossopw

9. Necessary requirements
Contribute to a FOSS project participating in an
upcoming round.
OR
Contribute to any FOSS project of your choice.
Contributing is mandatory. Start early and get
noticed.

10. The upcoming round: Dates
to remember
1 Oct 2013: Application process begins
1 Nov 2013: Application deadline
20 Nov 2013: Result announcement
10 Dec 2013
to Internship period
10 March 2014

11. OPW and I
● Interned with the Open Technology Institute of the
New America Foundation.
● Worked on the Commotion Wireless Project.
● Studied 12 FOSS projects and compared their L10n
processes.
● Researched translation tools for text and video content.
● Made recommendations regarding which tools to use.
Translated resources into French.

12. Some links from my blog
● http://www.worddelights.com/blog/gnome-outreach-prog
● http://www.worddelights.com/blog/gnome-outreach-prog
● http://www.worddelights.com/blog/gnome-outreach-prog

14. What is Commotion?
Commotion is an open-source software that
helps create a distributed peer-to-peer (mesh)
network between two or more wireless devices
such as mobile phones, laptops and routers. It
strengthens communities by allowing them to
build their own communications
infrastructures.

15. Commotion: Uses
Commotion has applications as:
● A facilitator of access to the internet.
● An aid during natural calamities.
● As a circumvention technology.

16. Explore Commotion
● https://commotionwireless.net/about
● https://commotionwireless.net/about/faq
● http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzyH09DeLo

17. Contribute to Commotion
● https://commotionwireless.net/get-involved
● https://commotionwireless.net/docs/get-involved/localiza

18. Thanks for sitting through!