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The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program

Posted Jun 14, 2006 23:42 UTC (Wed) by newren (subscriber, #5160)
In reply to: The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program by niner
Parent article: The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program

The pay is at the exact same rate as the Google Summer of Code ($1500/month), it's just for two months instead of three (The $9000 mentioned in the article is the aggregate -- there are only enough funds for three people). In fact, I think the article even pointed that out.

And how exactly do men have a much lower chance of getting accepted?

I for one, strongly applaud this effort, and in particular Chris Ball and Hanna Wallach for taking the initiative and getting this thing rolling.

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The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program

Posted Jun 14, 2006 23:48 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I believe he was saying that any individual male applicant to the regular SOC would have a lower chance of acceptance because of the higher total number of applicants, whereas the (anticipated) low number of female applicants to this program would have less competition and thus a better chance of acceptance.

The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program

Posted Jun 15, 2006 2:01 UTC (Thu) by newren (subscriber, #5160) [Link]

There were 20 accepted positions for Gnome in the Google SOC. There will only be 3 for this program. I guess it depends on the total number that apply as to whether someone had better odds in being accepted in the former or the latter and all we can do is guess at this point, but my personal guess is that the odds aren't much different. :)

The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program

Posted Jun 15, 2006 8:22 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I would expect that if your a female programming student that's about all it would take. Unless they have more then 3 show up.

All in all I don't mind. The summer of code is a pure public relations stuff so there is no such thing or realy any point to be fair about stuff.

It's not like some sort of government mandated quota system based on race or sex... :-)

The GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program

Posted Jun 19, 2006 13:36 UTC (Mon) by occ (guest, #38482) [Link]

"And how exactly do men have a much lower chance of getting accepted?"

Since they are not allowed to apply their chance is exactly 0.
On the other hand the 'real' SoC was open to everybody without consideration of sex or color, so the chance of women or men to be accepted were equal (we are going to assume that Gnome did not discriminate against women and then turn around and announce an Affirmative Action program)

So everall, with this scheme, the 'chance' of a given individual is lower if he is male.
Now there is SoC, the Open version, and SoC the 'dumbed down' version....