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Extra sources

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While working on this article, I collected more sources than I've included, so here's a list of them in case they're helpful. One thing to work on could be including more notes about participants in the program (and their projects) in the "History" section.

News articles:

  • Clark, Libby (17 April 2013). "How to Bring More Women to Free and Open Source Software". Linux.com. The Linux Foundation. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  • Kasson, Elisabeth Greenbaum (27 May 2014). "Women Have a Long Way to Go in Open Source". Dice. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  • Willis, Nathan (1 May 2013). "LFCS: The Outreach Program for Women". LWN.net. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  • Corbet, Jonathan (29 October 2013). "The Outreach Program for Women". LWN.net. Retrieved 11 October 2014.

Mentions in news articles about broader subjects:

Self-published sources by people involved in the program:

Press releases and interviews:

Dreamyshade (talk) 12:52, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Eligibility

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"It is open to ... " That is a lot of text. Wouldn't it be more concise to say "No Asian or Caucasian males need apply"? 128.237.82.12 (talk) 04:17, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

staffer role timeline

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Mainspace of this article has two sentences about Sarah Sharp:

  • Outreachy#Free_and_Open_Source_Software_Outreach_Program_for_Women: The June 2013 internships included seven participants contributing to the Linux kernel, for example working on parallelizing the x86 boot process.[25] Led by kernel contributor Sarah Sharp, who found mentors and projects for the interns, they made significant contributions to the 3.11 kernel release.[26]
  • Outreachy#Impact: In June 2015, an Outreachy coordinator and Linux kernel contributor, Sarah Sharp, won a Red Hat Women in Open Source Award "for her efforts in improving communications and inviting women into open source communities."[14][15]

As of 2015 per WP:ABOUTSELF, Sharp's role in Outreachy is to "help coordinate the overall Outreachy program" and Sharp is no longer a kernel developer.[1]

  • ended USB3-host-controller driver maintainership (May'14)
  • decided to no longer be Linux kernel developer (circa Oct'14 or earlier)
  • final presentation on Linux kernel development (Dec'14)
  • no longer Linux-kernel-coordinator in OPW (Jan'15)
  • I’m not a Linux kernel developer any more. (published Oct'15)

I don't think we need any changes in mainspace; we describe Sharp in wikipedia's voice as being "kernel contributor Sarah Sharp" in mid-2013, and OPW-kernel-coordinator, which are both still true. Similarly, we describe Sharp in mid-2015 as being "Outreachy coordinator and Linux kernel contributor" who won an award from the backer of a major Linux-distro. Although it is true that at the time of the June 2015 award, Sharp was no longer contributing to the kernel, past contributions (2006 through 2014/2015) were the basis; the sources being used for the award describe Sharp as "a software developer who has been involved in Linux kernel development since 2006" and as "embedded software architect at Intel" when they initially mention Sharp. Putting this note here, so that folks will have the timeline of events behind the two sentences, plus potential future sentences that might be added. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 13:54, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An efficient way to make this clear would be to write an article at Sarah Sharp - she's definitely notable enough. A year ago I collected some sources at Draft:Sarah Sharp (developer) (for a potential editing workshop event that didn't happen), in case that helps anyone who would like to work on this. Dreamyshade (talk) 02:07, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]