Outreachy is a three-month internship program for underrepresented groups in tech. Open to participants around the world, interns work remotely in free and open source software (FOSS). Under Software Freedom Conservancy's umbrella, interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 USD and given a $500 USD travel stipend to attend conferences or events.
In September of 2018, Outreachy decided to expand their scope to anyone who faces underrepresentation, systemic bias, or discrimination in the technology industry of their country. I became a part of Outreachy's team soon after, helping them with their initial application and selection processes, promotion of the internship program, and communications between applicants, interns, mentors, coordinators, participating communities and sponsors.
→ Read more about Software Freedom Conservancy and Outreachy
→ Check out Outreachy helper reports
Open Collective is a platform that helps communities manage their budget while being transparent with their financial contributors. Fostering from open source to climate initiatives, it creates a network for collaboration and mutual support.
After an extremely positive experience with the Open Collective team on Google Season of Docs 2019, I was invited to keep maintaining their documentation.
→ Read more about Open Collective
Google Season of Docs provides "a framework for technical writers and open source projects to work together towards the common goal of improving an open source project's documentation". Technical writers work closely with organizations for a few months bringing their expertise to the project's documentation while learning more about them and new technologies.
In August of 2019, I was one of the 52 technical writers selected to the first round of this program. I worked with Open Collective — a platform created to provide funding to open projects around the world — to improve their documentation culture and general help pages.
→ Read more about Open Collective and Google Season of Docs
→ Check out Journey through Google Season of Docs
The project "Free Software Ecosystems" was born from a partnership of the Laboratory of Advanced Production, Research and Innovation of Software (LAPPIS/UnB) with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (MinC) in October of 2017. It strives for bringing innovation to free software systems developed by MinC and coordinating applied research in continuous delivery, DevOps and machine learning techniques.
In August of 2019, I was hired by LAPPIS/UnB as a technical consultant, joining their efforts to bring the campaign "Public Money, Public Code" by Free Software Foundation Europe to Brazil and offering my expertise in open projects.
↳ Our translated version of the expert brochure was made available for the general public on FSFE's website in March 2020.
→ Read more about LAPPIS/UnB and Public Money, Public Code
June 6, 2020 @ I Conferência Goiana Virtual de Garotas da Computação
Open source software is everywhere from the phone in your pocket to the International Space Station. But even more incredible than its presence in many aspects of our lives is the possibility of improving them ourselves by making contributions to these projects from the comfort of our homes.
In this workshop, we'll explore the process of contributing to an open source project from choosing one compatible with your skills to the review and approval of one of your contribution, debating and demonstrating mininum skills required, methods of searching for more information on how to contribute and ways to interact with open source communities.