Talk:Outreachy

A fact from Outreachy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 October 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The GNOME Project's Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women started because no women were among the 181 applicants to a student mentorship program in 2006?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/October.

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Extra sources

While working on this article, I collected more sources than I've included, so here's a list of them in case they're helpful. One thing to work on could be including more notes about participants in the program (and their projects) in the "History" section.

News articles:

Clark, Libby (17 April 2013). "How to Bring More Women to Free and Open Source Software". Linux.com. The Linux Foundation. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
Kasson, Elisabeth Greenbaum (27 May 2014). "Women Have a Long Way to Go in Open Source". Dice. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
Willis, Nathan (1 May 2013). "LFCS: The Outreach Program for Women". LWN.net. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
Corbet, Jonathan (29 October 2013). "The Outreach Program for Women". LWN.net. Retrieved 11 October 2014.

Mentions in news articles about broader subjects:

August 2014: "Tech giants more transparent about diversity problem, but what will it take to close the gender gap?"
July 2014 "IRS policy that targeted political groups also aimed at open source projects"
Raghavendra, S. (28 July 2013). "Opening FOSS doors to women". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 23 September 2014.

Self-published sources by people involved in the program:

August 2014: "2014 Kernel Internship Report (OPW)"
March 2014: "New Challenge"
April 2013: "Announcing Outreach Program for Women Internships for the Linux Kernel: Please Apply"
April 2013: "FLOSS internship programs as catalysts for richer community collaboration"
April 2013: "Increasing participation of women in Free and Open Source Software"
Z, Marina (16 September 2010). "Let's Make Women Outreach a GNOME-wide Effort!". Marina'z Blog. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
June 2006: "Women’s Summer Outreach Program"
June 2006: "GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program 2006"

Press releases and interviews:

July 2014: "An Interview with Karen Sandler" (interview)
February 2014: "Heard of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women? Learn more today." (interview)
November 2013: "How did the Outreach Program for Women work out for the Linux kernel this year?" (interview)
November 2013: "Outreach Program for Women: "The impact that the program has had on the participating free software projects has been profound"" (interview)
November 2010: "GNOME Project Announces Outreach Program for Women Interns" (press release)
January 2010: "GNOME and FSF highlight women in free software" (press release)
November 2009: "An Interview with Leslie Hawthorn" (interview)

Dreamyshade (talk) 12:52, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Eligibility

"It is open to ... " That is a lot of text. Wouldn't it be more concise to say "No Asian or Caucasian males need apply"? 128.237.82.12 (talk) 04:17, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

staffer role timeline

Mainspace of this article has two sentences about Sarah Sharp:

Outreachy#Free_and_Open_Source_Software_Outreach_Program_for_Women: The June 2013 internships included seven participants contributing to the Linux kernel, for example working on parallelizing the x86 boot process.[25] Led by kernel contributor Sarah Sharp, who found mentors and projects for the interns, they made significant contributions to the 3.11 kernel release.[26]
Outreachy#Impact: In June 2015, an Outreachy coordinator and Linux kernel contributor, Sarah Sharp, won a Red Hat Women in Open Source Award "for her efforts in improving communications and inviting women into open source communities."[14][15]

As of 2015 per WP:ABOUTSELF, Sharp's role in Outreachy is to "help coordinate the overall Outreachy program" and Sharp is no longer a kernel developer.[1]

ended USB3-host-controller driver maintainership (May'14)
decided to no longer be Linux kernel developer (circa Oct'14 or earlier)
final presentation on Linux kernel development (Dec'14)
no longer Linux-kernel-coordinator in OPW (Jan'15)
I’m not a Linux kernel developer any more. (published Oct'15)

I don't think we need any changes in mainspace; we describe Sharp in wikipedia's voice as being "kernel contributor Sarah Sharp" in mid-2013, and OPW-kernel-coordinator, which are both still true. Similarly, we describe Sharp in mid-2015 as being "Outreachy coordinator and Linux kernel contributor" who won an award from the backer of a major Linux-distro. Although it is true that at the time of the June 2015 award, Sharp was no longer contributing to the kernel, past contributions (2006 through 2014/2015) were the basis; the sources being used for the award describe Sharp as "a software developer who has been involved in Linux kernel development since 2006" and as "embedded software architect at Intel" when they initially mention Sharp. Putting this note here, so that folks will have the timeline of events behind the two sentences, plus potential future sentences that might be added. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 13:54, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An efficient way to make this clear would be to write an article at Sarah Sharp - she's definitely notable enough. A year ago I collected some sources at Draft:Sarah Sharp (developer) (for a potential editing workshop event that didn't happen), in case that helps anyone who would like to work on this. Dreamyshade (talk) 02:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]