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Title of the submission

Various Tech Opportunities with Wikimedia

Your Username (For the submission author)

01tonythomas (Link)

Type of presentation

Talk

Abstract (in about 300 words)

This is going to be short and sweet (possibly) about various technical roles with the Wikimedia Foundation for University students, kids and women. I would like to introduce and explain about the process of Google Summer of Code and Outreachy rounds which are coming up soon. I would love to introduce Google Code In too, and show why we should encourage our siblings to participate in the same.

Few things I plan to talk about are:

1. The importance of starting early for one of these programs
2. How to select the right project, how to get in touch with the right mentors
3. Importance of reporting, a healthy community-intern relation
4. Completing the project, and the need to stick with the community.

I currently volunteer as the GSoC 2016 and Outreachy'12 Organization admin with the Wikimedia Foundation, and being on both sides (student and mentor of the GSoC program), I hope to push eligible candidates to apply for the same.

Result

Accepted

Interested attendees and comments

• I am a second year Engineering student at SRM University and was very recently toying with the idea of establishing a SRM-Wiki students group kind of a community at my college with a handful of like-minded peers. Would definitely want to attend this session and take valuable inputs. Thank you! -- Mourya Biswas (cHiT-ChAt! - Contributions) 15:46, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
• --Ravi (talk) 07:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
• -- Abha Pradhan ^{(talk) |Contribs)} 03:28, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
• --Manojk (talk) 16:30, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
• Rehman 12:19, 5 August 2016 (UTC)