NewsForge: GNOME and Google Reach Out to Women

“GNOME’s Women’s Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) is underway,
with twice the number of projects originally scheduled, thanks to
Google’s generosity. The program has not only brought a few more
women into the GNOME fold, but it seems to have jump-started
efforts to actively recruit female developers within other open
source projects as well.

“The outreach program kicked off in June after the GNOME project
received 181 applications for the Google Summer of Code (SoC)
program–and none of the applicants were women. GNOME’s Chris Ball
and Hanna Wallach decided that wasn’t acceptable and proposed that
the GNOME Foundation use some of the Google SoC money to fund a
project specifically to get women involved with GNOME…”

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