Harsh, Are you suggesting we should choose these programs instead of GSoC? Or that we should delegate some of our mentors to this program instead of GSoC?
If these programs are equivalent to GSoC but target under-represented communities instead of all people, I wouldn't have a problem with us giving resources to that. All this really needs is a champion that will make it happen. If Sumith, Amit, or you want to take the lead on making this happen I'm guessing you will likely get support from the community. But there will be the logistical issue of delegating our limited resources. if any of you are excited and driven to have SymPy participate in these projects, then go for it! Just make sure to coordinate with the GSoC effort. Jason Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Harsh Gupta <gupta.hars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Though lack of mentors is a real logistical issue (I can't complain > because I > won't be mentoring this time). We need to recognize the fact that SymPy, > like > most of the other FOSS organizations has a serious lack of women > participants. > > I highly recommend a reading of the article "Free as in Sexist > <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381>"[1] > which talks > about various issues which drives away women from FOSS. There is a need to > explicitly work on reducing the gender gap in SymPy and programs like Rails > Girls Summer of Code and Outreachy provides good opportunities to do so. > > [1]: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381 > > -- > Harsh > https://medium.com/@hargup > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADN8iuoHDWTbgPk7kWq3KRyPS2RH8ZPUvD_4nfN5kpOw3iEn%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADN8iuoHDWTbgPk7kWq3KRyPS2RH8ZPUvD_4nfN5kpOw3iEn%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1Aihb5u94wd3bSzFv7oGxKdmxgkgvJgbyShrgtsm1ZZYYw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
