Outreach programs

We create, participate in, and manage mentorship programs, such as the Outreach Program for Women, Google Summer of Code, UCOSP, and LevelUp.

Rationale
We want to encourage new and intermediate contributors to grow their skills, spread knowledge around the community to improve bus factor, and give our senior contributors a leadership opportunity.

Timeline

 * 3 December 2012: Outreach Program for Women application deadline
 * December 2012: encourage contributors to look at Developers/Maintainers and decide what to mentor or train in as part of LevelUp
 * January-March 2013: Outreach Program for Women internships
 * January-March 2013: Engineering Community Team keeps in touch with WMF managers to track LevelUp progress
 * February-March 2013: Decide whether to apply again for Google Summer of Code

Documents

 * Design document:
 * Schedule: see
 * Task management: on this page
 * Communications plan: regular updates to wikitech-l, the blog, and when necessary the internal WMF engineering list

Communications

 * Declining Google Code-In, 2011
 * whether to do Google Code-In, 2012
 * Wikimedia & MediaWiki to participate in Outreach Program for Women, 2012
 * Apply for the FOSS Outreach Program for Women internships, 2012
 * Evaluating Google Summer of Code, 2012