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Ten Years of Outreachy!

Talkat linux.conf.au 2021 · 2021-01-23..01-25· [diversity-and-inclusion, devrel-and-community]

speaker

name:Karen M. Sandler

bluesky:karensandler.bsky.social

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video:https://youtu.be/XomfQv0J_uY

slides:none on file

summary

Outreachy celebrates ten years of remote paid internships running twice a year, has placed over 750 interns with a >90% internship completion rate, and reports employment rising from ~12% pre-internship to ~61% after. The program adopts an essay-based eligibility to capture systemic bias, converted 137 travel stipends into extra payments during the pandemic, currently runs 53 interns this round, and recently hired Sage Sharp as a full-time coordinator to stabilize logistics and scale the program.

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