Just a reminder, if you have projects that are suitable for the OPW please add them to the wiki page or, if you can't access the wiki, send me a summary and I'll add it.

http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/

Prospective participants can start submitting applications on Sep 22 and it'd be great if we had a nice range of projects available by then. Note that unlike GSoC, the scope is not limited to coding (see below).

Cheers, Peter

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 09:01:44AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

Hi everyone,

X.Org will join the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) in Round 9 (December 2014 - March 2015). The OPW is "open to anyone who was assigned female at birth and anyone who identifies as a woman, genderqueer, genderfluid, or genderfree regardless of gender presentation or assigned sex at birth." For more details on the program see https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen

We've secured funding for one participant and are currently looking for suitable projects and mentors. The scope of the program is "not limited to coding, but include user experience design, graphic design, documentation, web development, marketing, translation and other types of tasks needed to sustain a FOSS project."

So if you are interested in mentoring or you can think of a suitable project, please add it to the wiki page or alternatively email me. http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgOPW/

If you are interested in participating and you can think of a suitable project, please do the same and we'll try our best to find a mentor for you.

The applications will open on September 22, so let's get some good projects up there by then!

Cheers, Peter, on behalf of the X.Org BoD