Outreachy

[7] Participants work remotely, so the internship includes a $500 travel budget to support interns meeting fellow contributors in person and develop stronger connections to the project.

[7] Participants also write a blog about their work, which one said "allowed me to meet many people interested in the same topic as myself and opened a completely different range of opportunities.

"[7] In March 2014, the Free Software Foundation gave the program its annual Award for Projects of Social Benefit as part of the FSF Free Software Awards, saying that the program does "critical work", "addressing gender discrimination by empowering women to develop leadership and development skills in a society which runs on technology.

"[14][15] In July 2015, program co-organizer Marina Zhurakhinskaya won an O'Reilly Open Source Award for her work on Outreachy.

[18] The students reported positive experiences and continued to use free and open-source software after the internship, but many of them did not have their work integrated into the main codebase.

[19] The GNOME Foundation board appointed Marina Zhurakhinskaya to organize it, including finding mentors for the program.

[3] The program's internship options expanded to include non-coding work such as documentation and localization,[20] and it opened up to non-student applicants.

[22] They included Priscilla Mahlangu, a South African woman translating GNOME desktop software into the Zulu language.

[22] Twelve interns started in November 2011, with sponsorship from Collabora, Google, Mozilla, Red Hat, and the GNOME Foundation.

[10] For the May 2012 round, the Software Freedom Conservancy joined the program with an internship with the Twisted project, mentored by Jessica McKellar.

[11] The June 2013 internships included seven participants contributing to the Linux kernel, for example working on parallelizing the x86 boot process.

[28] In April 2014, the GNOME Foundation temporarily froze nonessential expenditures because of a budget shortfall linked to the Outreach Program for Women; it paid interns on a schedule that was sometimes before payments from sponsoring organizations arrived.

Four lead organizers of Outreachy present a main stage talk at FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels , Belgium . Left to right: Karen Sandler , Anna e só, Omotola E. Omotayo, Sage Sharp .
Promotional flyer for January-April 2013 internships
Marina Zhurakhinskaya presenting about the Outreach Program for Women at the GUADEC in August 2013
Four lead organizers of Outreachy celebrating 1,000 interns at FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels , Belgium . Left to right: Karen Sandler , Anna e só, Omotola E. Omotayo, Sage Sharp .