X.Org Is Looking For Some Female Help

The X.Org Foundation is looking for one female to fund in the months ahead to do some sort of work for the open-source project.

The X.Org Foundation has decided to get involved with the FOSS Outreach Program for Women (OPW) setup by the GNOME project. The OPW is the program that basically funds females (or those associating as females) to work on nearly any aspect of free software development from graphics design to documentation. The program pays out a modest $5,500 USD plus up to a $500 travel allowance. It's also the program that unfortunately led the GNOME project to run into some short-term money problems due to the handling of the project and other managerial tasks.

X.Org is joining the Outreach Program for Women for its first time in "Round 9" that goes from December to March. Again, it's open to anyone as long as they were "assigned female at birth and anyone who identifies as a woman, genderqueer, genderfluid, or genderfree regardless of gender presentation or assigned sex at birth."

Peter Hutterer of the X.Org Board of Directors wrote, "We've secured funding for one participant and are currently looking for suitable projects and mentors. The scope of the program is 'not limited to coding, but include user experience design, graphic design, documentation, web development, marketing, translation and other types of tasks needed to sustain a FOSS project.'"

Interested women should checkout the new X.Org OPW page and the mailing list announcement. If you aren't female or meet the above conditions, it's important to not forget about the rarely advertised X.Org EVoC that will fund work year-round and isn't gender-limited and leads to interesting projects.

As some possible work, don't forget X.Org/Mesa is still missing out on some good per-commit testing for catching regressions (that can be done in part via a Phoronix Test Suite + Phoromatic deployment...). The X.Org Foundation also is long overdue for a new logo.