![]() As of 2014, these rounds of internships have had up to 16 participating organizations, including Mozilla and the Wikimedia Foundation. The program began in 2006 with a round of internships for women working on the GNOME desktop environment (which primarily runs on Linux), and it resumed in 2010 with internships twice a year, adding projects from other organizations starting in 2012. Internships can focus on programming, design, documentation, marketing, or other kinds of contributions. ![]() Participants can be of any background and any age older than 18. It is open to cisgender and transgender women, people of other gender identities that are minorities in open source (including transgender men and genderqueer people), and people of any gender in the United States who have racial/ethnic identities underrepresented in the US technology industry (Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander). The program is organized by the Software Freedom Conservancy and was formerly organized by The GNOME Project and the GNOME Foundation. Outreachy (previously the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women) is a program that organizes three-month paid internships with free and open-source software projects for people who are typically underrepresented in those projects. Marina Zhurakhinskaya presenting about the Outreach Program for Women at the GUADEC in August 2013
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