SFD 2013 Gnome OPW

GNOME Outreach Program for Women (OPW)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

How to apply

Information points

● https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen

● #opw IRC channel onGIMPNet (irc.gnome.org)

● @fossopw

Necessary requirements

Contribute to a FOSS project participating in an upcoming round.

ORContribute to any FOSS project of your choice.

Contributing is mandatory. Start early and get noticed.

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

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.

Some links from my blog

● http://www.worddelights.com/blog/gnome-outreach-program-for-women/localizing-commotion-wireless-project-first-steps

● http://www.worddelights.com/blog/gnome-outreach-program-for-women/video-subtitling-captioning-and-translation-tools-amara-versus-dotsub

● http://www.worddelights.com/blog/gnome-outreach-program-for-women/translation-management-tools-transifex-pootle-and-launchpad-a-comparison-of-features

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.

Commotion: Uses

Commotion has applications as:

● A facilitator of access to the internet.

● An aid during natural calamities.

● As a circumvention technology.

Explore Commotion

● https://commotionwireless.net/about

● https://commotionwireless.net/about/faq

● http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzyH09DeLo

Contribute to Commotion

● https://commotionwireless.net/get-involved

● https://commotionwireless.net/docs/get-involved/localization

Thanks for sitting through!