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2015 YIR: Laying a Foundation for Growing Outreachy
byMarina Zhurakhinskaya
on December 31, 2015
[ This blog post is the fifth in our series, Conservancy
2015: Year in Review. ]
Marina Zhurakhinskaya, one of the coordinators of Conservancy's Outreachy program, writes about all the exciting things that happened in Outreachy's first year in its new home at Conservancy.
2015 was a year of transition and expansion
for Outreachy, which was
only possible with the fiscal and legal support Conservancy provided us. Becoming a Conservancy Supporter will ensure
the future in which more free software success stories like Outreachy's are
possible.
Outreachy helps people from groups underrepresented in free software get
involved through paid, mentored, remote internships with a variety of free
software projects. After successfully growing as the GNOME Foundation
project for four years, Outreachy needed a new home which could support its
further growth, be designed to work with a multitude of free software
projects, and provide extensive accounting services. With the current
participation numbers of about 35 interns and 15 sponsoring organizations a
round, and two rounds a year, Outreachy requires processing about 210 intern
payments and 30 sponsor invoices a year. Additionally, Outreachy requires
processing travel reimbursements, preparing tax documents, and providing
letters of participation for some interns. Legal entity hosting Outreachy
needs to enter into participation agreements with interns and mentors, as
well as into custom sponsorship agreements with some sponsors.
In February,
Outreachy announced
its transition to Conservancy and adopted its current name. The
alternative of creating its own non-profit was prohibitive because of the
overhead and time commitment that would have required. Conservancy was a
perfect new home, which provided a lot of the services Outreachy needed and
allowed seamlessly continuing the program throughout 2015. The transition to
Conservancy was completed
in May. 30 interns were accepted for the May-August round
with Karen Sandler, Sarah Sharp, and Marina Zhurakhinskaya serving as
Outreachy's Project Leadership Committee and
coordinators.
With the program's needs met, we were able to turn our minds to expanding
the reach of the program. In September,
Outreachy announced the
expantion to people of color underrepresented in tech in the U.S., while
continuing to be open to cis and trans women, trans men, and genderqueer
people worldwide. This expansion was guided by the lack of diversity
revealed by
the employee
demographic data released by many leading U.S. tech companies. Three new
cooridinators, Cindy Pallares-Quezada, Tony Sebro, and Bryan Smith joined
Karen Sandler, Sarah Sharp, and Marina Zhurakhinskaya to help with the
expansion. 37 interns were accepted for
the December-March
round.
One of the most important measures of success for Outreachy is its alums
speaking at free software conferences. In 2015, 27 alums had full-time
sessions at conferences such as linux.conf.au, LibrePlanet, FOSSASIA,
OpenStack Summit, Open Source Bridge, FISL, and LinuxCon. Isabel Jimenez
gave a keynote
about the benefits of contributing to open source at All Things Open. In a
major recognition for an Outreachy alum, Yan Zhu
was named
among the women to watch in IT security by SC Magazine.
Outreachy coordinators are also being recognized for their contributions
to free and open source software. Sarah
Sharp won the
inaugural Women in Open Source Award, sponsored by Red Hat, and
generously donated her stipend to Outreachy. Marina
Zhurakhinskaya won an
O'Reilly Open Source Award.
Outreachy coordinators, mentors, and alums promoted Outreachy and
diversity in free and open source software in the following articles and
conference sessions:
Karen Sandler spoke about
Outreachy in her FOSDEM
and FISL
keynotes
Marina Zhurakhinskaya moderated and Cindy Pallares-Quezada
participated in the panel
about opportunities in open source at the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration
of Diversity in Computing
Mentor and former career
advisor Sumana Harihareswara wrote about the triumph of
Outreachy, with examples from its history
Alum Sucheta Ghoshal spoke about
her experience with
Outreachy at LibrePlanet and alums Jessica Canepa, Barbara Miller, and
Adam Okoye spoke about their experience
with Outreachy at Open Source Bridge
Linux kernel coordinator
Julia Lawall moderated the panel on
Outreachy internships with the Linux kernel at LinuxCon North America;
panel participants included Karen Sandler, mentors Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jes
Sorensen, and Konrad Wilk, and alums Lidza Louina, Lisa Nguyen, and Elena
Ufimtseva
Marina Zhurakhinskaya
was interviewed about Outreachy and her other diversity
work by
Opensource.com and, for the Ada Lovelace Day, by the Free
Software Foundation
Weaving their work on
Outreachy into their greater involvement in free software diversity efforts,
Sarah Sharp wrote about what
makes a good community on her blog, Marina Zhurakhinskaya gave
a keynote
on effective outreach at Fossetcon, and Cindy Pallares-Quezada wrote an
article on diversity
in open source highlights from 2015 for
Opensource.com
Outreachy is made
possible thanks to the contributions of its many coordinators, mentors, and
sponsors. For May and December rounds, with the credit given for the highest
level of sponsorship, Intel and Mozilla sponsored Outreachy at the Ceiling
Smasher level, Red Hat at the Equalizer level, Google, Hewlett-Packard,
Linux Foundation, and OpenStack Foundation at the Promoter level, and
Cadasta, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Endless, Free Software Foundation,
GNOME, Goldman Sachs, IBM, M-Lab, Mapbox, Mapzen, Mifos, Open Source
Robotics Foundation, Perl, Samsung, Twitter, VideoLAN, Wikimedia Foundation,
and Xen Project at the Includer level. Additionally, Red Hat supports
Outreachy by contributing Marina Zhurakhinskaya's time towards the
organization of the program and the GNOME Foundation provides infrastructure
support. However, first and foremost, Outreachy is possible thanks to
Conservancy being in place to be its non-profit home and handle the fiscal
and legal needs of the program.
Conservancy's service of helping free software projects establish a
foundation for growth without the prohibitive overhead of creating their own
non-profits is a cornerstone of the free software community. We need
Conservancy securely in place to continue providing exceptional support for
its 33 member projects and to offer this support to new projects. To help
free software thrive, please join Outreachy's Project Leadership Committee
members Karen Sandler, Sarah Sharp, and Marina Zhurakhinskaya
in becoming a
Conservancy Supporter.
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