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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
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