[Adminsysters] Fw: [Outreachy announcement] [Due Sept 17] Funding available & call for mentors

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On Wednesday, September 8th, 2021 at 8:00 PM, Sage Sharp - Outreachy Organizer <organizers at outreachy.org> wrote:

> Outreachy is seeking open source communities to participate in the December 2021 to March 2022 internship cohort.
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> September 17 at 4pm UTC is the deadline for open source communities to sign up as mentoring organizations.
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> September 23 at 4pm UTC is the deadline for mentors to submit projects.
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> Internship funding is available for humanitarian open source communities, and open science and health communities. See details below.
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> Please forward this email to open source communities who might be interested in participating as mentors! You can also share our blog post on social media:
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> https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2021-08-18/december-2021-call-for-mentoring-communities/
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> What is Outreachy?
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> Outreachy is an internship program. Outreachy internships are:
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> 💵 Paid - $6,000 USD total internship stipend
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> 🌍 Remote - both interns and mentors work remotely
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> 🕰 3 months - internships run December 6 to March 4
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> Outreachy's goal is to increase diversity in open source. Based on our 2019 longitudinal survey, past Outreachy interns are:
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> ♀️ 92% women
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> 🌈 4% transgender, genderqueer, or non-binary people
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> 🧕🏾 64% people of color
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> 🧑🏿 12% people from a historically disadvantaged caste or tribe
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> Seeking Mentoring Organizations
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> We are looking for open source communities to mentor interns. Open source communities must:
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> -   have at least 2-3 regular contributors
> -   have source code and creative works published under an open source license
> -   not be too tightly tied to one commercial company
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>     Mentors in your community will need to:
> -   commit to volunteer for 5-10 hours per week
> -   propose projects for interns to work on
> -   create a list of newcomer-friendly tasks for applicants to work on
>     

>     Internship funding
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> All communities must find finding for at least one intern ($6,500 USD):
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> -   Humanitarian open source communities can apply for funding from Outreachy
> -   Open science and health communities can apply for funding from Wellcome Trust
> -   Other open source communities need to find their own funding. Communities might use their own community funds, or find a company to sponsor an intern.
>     

>     Funding for Humanitarian Communities
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> Outreachy is seeking humanitarian open source communities to participate as mentoring organizations.
> 

> Outreachy will fully fund at least 1 intern for accepted humanitarian open source communities.
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> Details are in the "Humanitarian community funding" section of the blog post below. Please spread the word: https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2021-08-18/december-2021-call-for-mentoring-communities/#humanitarian-funding
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> Funding for Open Science & Health Communities
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> Outreachy is pleased to announce we are partnering with Wellcome Trust to fund open science and health communities.
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> Wellcome Trust will fully fund 1 intern for accepted open science and health communities.
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> Details are in the "Open science funding" section of our blog post: https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2021-08-18/december-2021-call-for-mentoring-communities/#open-science-funding
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> You can read more about Wellcome Trust's partnership with Outreachy here: https://medium.com/wellcome-data/outreachy-tackling-underrepresentation-in-open-source-technology-c2204407afba
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> If you have any questions, please email organizers at outreachy.org
> 

> Sage Sharp, Outreachy Organizer
> 

> Announce mailing list
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> Announce at lists.outreachy.org
> 

> https://lists.outreachy.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce
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