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<h3 style="font-family:Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; color:#717171; font-size:16px; line-height:22px; margin:0; font-weight:normal;"><strong style="color:#000000;">Karl</strong> sent a message</h3>
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<div>Hello,<br /><br />My name is Karl, lead contact for <a href="https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/">Rails Girls Summer of Code</a>, a program run by <a href="https://foundation.travis-ci.org/">Travis Foundation</a> aiming to improve diversity and opportunities in tech for people from underrepresented groups.<br /><br />We're currently appealing for open source projects to apply to RGSoC 2020 and would love for members and friends of the OSGeo Foundation community to get involved.<br /><br />This may be especially of interest to those of you familiar with Google's Summer of Code. As a global program, I wanted to reach out to OSGeo chapters all around the world to offer you the opportunity to get involved.<br /><br /><strong>What's it about?</strong><br />Rails Girls Summer of Code provides experienced-beginner level female and non-binary coders scholarships to work on established open source projects. Students, who can apply from anywhere in the world, work alongside their mentor and coaches from July-September. They gain valuable skills and experience while OS projects benefit from their contribution.<br /><br />I include further information below this email. Full details can be found at <a href="https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/">https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Submit your open source projects</strong><br />It would be awesome if anyone working on an OS project that could be a great fit for the program would consider being a mentor this year. Projects can be submitted to our <a href="https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2020-01-03-projects-submissions-2020">Teams App</a> until 10 February 2020.<br /><br />The project can be in any programming language, it is not restricted to Rails.<br /><br />Our <a href="https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/guide/projects/">guide for mentors</a> contains everything project maintainers need to know but if you or they have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.<br /><br />Could you help us spread the word among your community? It really would be appreciated. Even a <a href="https://twitter.com/RailsGirlsSoC/status/1214102049819901952">retweet</a> or share on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RailsGirlsSummerofCode/videos/508130923162952/">Facebook</a> would be extremely helpful.<br /><br />Many thanks and kind regards,<br />Karl<br /><br />............ <br /><br />Rails Girls Summer of Code will return in 2020 for its 7th edition, continuing our mission to bring more women and non-binary people into Open Source. <br /><br />In 2018 we introduced part-time scholarships and received a staggering 195 applications from student teams for the 13 places we could offer, with 7 full- and 6 part-time teams participating.<br /><br />Here are some choice statistics from the first 6 years: <br /><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rails-girls-summer-of-code/summer-of-code/gh-pages/img/2019-11-20-Stats%202013-18%20Email%20Version.png" width="407" height="209" alt="Stats 2013-18" style="border-style:none;margin:auto;" /><br />RGSoC is not confined to any programming language. In the past, we have had project submissions in Javascript, Python, PHP, Rust, Clojure, Ruby, Java, C++ and more. <br /><br />According to a survey conducted among our students in 2017, more than half continue to contribute to Open Source after the season. Over 90% of participants end up in a technical position in the industry, most of the time as developers. We want to build on this success.<br /><br />We also invite you to follow RGSoC on <a href="https://twitter.com/RailsGirlsSoC">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Rails-Girls-Summer-of-Code-620914904656191/">Facebook</a> and help us reach out across the globe.</div><br>
<br>--<br>Karl Dickinson<br><br>contact@rgsoc.org<br><br><a href="https://twitter.com/RailsGirlsSoC"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/RailsGirlsSoC">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RailsGirlsSummerofCode/">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://eepurl.com/gJ7D4r">Newsletter</a> | <a href="https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/campaign/">Donate</a><a href="https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/campaign/"></a><br>—<strong><br></strong>Rails Girls Summer of Code is an initiative run by <a href="http://foundation.travis-ci.org/">Travis Foundation</a>.<br><br><strong>Travis Foundation gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)</strong>, Rigaer Str.8, 10247 Berlin, Germany | <strong>GF/CEO:</strong> Randy Jacops<br>Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin, HRB 158037 B | Umsatzsteuer-ID gemäß §27 a Umsatzsteuergesetz: DE295684024
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