Outreach programs

MediaWiki participates in several mentorship programs; these include the Outreach Program for Women, Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, Facebook Open Academy, and UCOSP.

Rationale
The Wikimedia Foundation, and the MediaWiki community, want to encourage new and intermediate contributors to grow their skills, spread knowledge around the community to improve bus factor, and give more senior contributors a leadership opportunity.

More: FLOSS internship programs as catalysts for richer community collaboration

Documents

 * /Possible projects/
 * /Possible mentors/
 * /Organizations/
 * /Application template/
 * /Selection process/
 * Lessons learned
 * /Messages to candidates
 * /2014-03-11 IRC Q&A session on GSoC and FOSS OPW

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

Links
Reporting instructions Do's and dont's Help Logs, blogs and jobs
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Reporting
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Project_documentation_howto
 * Example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/status
 * http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/08/contact-early-contact-often.html
 * http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/dos-and-donts-of-google-summer-of-code_21.html
 * http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/warning-signs
 * https://terrrydactyl.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/first-day
 * http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html
 * http://sindhus.bitbucket.org/asking-for-help-floss-communities.html
 * http://dberkholz.com/2011/03/27/the-dos-and-don%E2%80%99ts-of-google-summer-of-code-student-edition
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_5
 * https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/google-summer-of-code-discuss
 * https://plus.google.com/106914622056861826817/about
 * http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20130626.txt
 * http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/
 * http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia
 * https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings#Wikimedia_Careers