Outreachy/Round 15

Wikimedia is participating as a mentoring organization for Outreachy's Round 15.



Program timeline

 * September 7, 2017 - application period opens
 * October 23 - contributions and applications are due
 * November 9 - interns announced
 * December 5, 2017 to March 5, 2018 - internship period

Internship period (Dec 5th-Mar 5th)

 * 1) Continue working on your projects under the guidance of mentors
 * 2) Continue writing bi-weekly reports and linking them from Updates section above and here

Before the internship period kick-off (Nov 9th-Dec 5th)

 * 1) Start communicating with your mentors on refining your project proposal, finalizing deadlines and setting milestones
 * 2) Join Zulip that we will use to share program-related announcements and opportunities for participating in Wikimedia activities
 * 3) Write blogposts (first due by Nov 23rd) and add it to the Bi-weekly Reports page
 * 4) When you complete a task other than the coding work, for example, join Zulip, pass an evaluation phase, write a blogpost, make sure to add it to the Updates column in the Accepted projects table
 * 5) (Optional) Upload your profile picture on Wikimedia Commons, and add it below your name in the Accepted projects table
 * 6) (Optional) Stay in touch with Wikimedia community members and help them learn about you more:
 * 7) * Subscribe to Wikimedia mailing list wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 * 8) * Setup up your MediaWiki user page and keep it up to date with your project work and reports (example 1, example 2)
 * 9) * Interested in learning about other Wikimedia technical topics? Watch the videos here

Ideas for projects
View ideas for projects promoted during the application period.

Contact
Reach out for general questions about Outreachy on the Freenode IRC channel or send an email to the organization administrator Srishti Sethi at ssethi@wikimedia.org.