From president at linux.org.au Thu Mar 2 08:34:30 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 08:34:30 +1100 Subject: [Announce] AUD $35, 000 available in the 2017 Linux Australia Grants Program In-Reply-To: <658f8fc2-2ecd-83ec-3cff-44cdc1c53c05@linux.org.au> References: <658f8fc2-2ecd-83ec-3cff-44cdc1c53c05@linux.org.au> Message-ID: <0ce89a16-2450-25db-6cc7-1d956f25496c@linux.org.au> As of now, we currently have received zero (0) Grant Applications. There's $35k on the table, and we'd like to see it used to do Good Open* Things. Kind regards, Kathy On 16/02/17 22:01, Linux Australia President wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Linux Australia is delighted to announce the availability of $AUD 35,000 > for open source, open data, open government, open education, open > hardware and open culture projects, as part of the organisation?s > commitment to free and open source systems and communities in the region. > > This year, we have deliberately weighted some areas in which we strongly > welcome grant applications. > > More information is available at: https://linux.org.au/projects/grants > > Please do share this with colleagues who may find it of interest, and > feel free to contact the Linux Australia Council if you would like a > private discussion. > > With kind regards, > > Kathy > > -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 From rene.midland1 at gmail.com Tue Mar 7 23:10:45 2017 From: rene.midland1 at gmail.com (Renato Mejilla) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Announce] AUD $35, 000 available in the 2017 Linux Australia Grants Program In-Reply-To: <0ce89a16-2450-25db-6cc7-1d956f25496c@linux.org.au> References: <658f8fc2-2ecd-83ec-3cff-44cdc1c53c05@linux.org.au> <0ce89a16-2450-25db-6cc7-1d956f25496c@linux.org.au> Message-ID: I want to avail of this grant, how to do it? Get Outlook for Android On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:01 AM +0800, "Linux Australia President" wrote: As of now, we currently have received zero (0) Grant Applications. There's $35k on the table, and we'd like to see it used to do Good Open* Things. Kind regards, Kathy On 16/02/17 22:01, Linux Australia President wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Linux Australia is delighted to announce the availability of $AUD 35,000 > for open source, open data, open government, open education, open > hardware and open culture projects, as part of the organisation?s > commitment to free and open source systems and communities in the region. > > This year, we have deliberately weighted some areas in which we strongly > welcome grant applications. > > More information is available at: https://linux.org.au/projects/grants > > Please do share this with colleagues who may find it of interest, and > feel free to contact the Linux Australia Council if you would like a > private discussion. > > With kind regards, > > Kathy > > -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at linux.org.au Mon Mar 13 17:30:54 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:30:54 +1100 Subject: [Announce] Outreachy applications are now welcomed from women worldwide Message-ID: Hi everyone, On behalf of the Outreachy team at the GNOME Foundation, I'd like to let you know that applications to participate in Outreachy are now welcomed from women worldwide - including Australia. ----- Greetings, Applications are now open for Outreachy, an internship program for people traditionally underrepresented in tech. Outreachy offers remote, three-month internships with a $5,500 stipend and a $500 conference travel stipend. These internships are open world-wide to all women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. Additionally, they are open in the U.S, to all Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people. https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/ Interns work remotely with experienced mentors in free and open source software projects. The internships are often focused on programming tasks, but some projects offer internships in user experience design, graphic design, documentation, web development, marketing, translation, and more. The Outreachy internships run from May 30 to August 30. More details and eligibility criteria can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Program_Details Applying to Outreachy is a little different than other internship programs. During the application period (February 16 to March 30), potential interns are expected to make contact with one or more of the open source project mentors, and make a contribution to the project. Outreachy coordinators have found that the strongest applicants contact mentors early, ask a lot of questions, and continually submit small contributions throughout the application period. One of the Outreachy coordinators (Sarah Sharp) can give a virtual introductory talk with interested organizations or universities in the coming weeks. You can see her availability and schedule a meeting here: http://doodle.com/sarahsharp Please let me know if you have any questions about the program. The Outreachy coordinators (Marina, Karen, Sarah, Cindy, and Tony) can all be reached at outreachy-admins at gnome.org I hope you'll help us spread the word about the Outreachy internships! p.s. Please note that Google Summer of Code is also accepting applications for their internships: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at linux.org.au Sun Mar 19 10:35:27 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:35:27 +1100 Subject: [Announce] Cartesian Creative partners with Linux Australia Grants Program to improve open source UX Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Cartesian Creative, a Melbourne-based design and software agency, are partnering with Linux Australia, offering up to $4k matched funding on Grants aimed at improving the user experience (UX) of open source software projects. Matched dollar for dollar by Linux Australia, this means that UX improvement projects could receive up to $AUD 8k in funding. Duncan Macneil, Senior UX Analyst at Cartesian Creative was excited at the value the partnership will deliver. "Open Source projects don't often get the luxury of time spent on UX concerns. By co-sponsoring this grant, Cartesian Creative recognise the contribution Free, Libre and Open Source projects make in the tech community, along with the importance of compelling user experiences." Linux Australia President, Kathy Reid, was delighted with the partnership. "User experience is an often undervalued component of software, hardware and digital projects, and time and again in the open source community we see products which are very functional, but barely usable. We're thrilled to be partnering with a company with such strong UX credentials to help improve open source UX. Innovation truly does happen at the intersection of art and science." More information on the Grants Program, including how to apply, is available at: https://linux.org.au/projects/grants Cartesian Creative is a Melbourne-based consultancy: http://cartesiancreative.com.au With kind regards, Kathy Reid -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tleeuwenburg at gmail.com Thu Mar 30 21:32:14 2017 From: tleeuwenburg at gmail.com (Tennessee Leeuwenburg) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:32:14 +1100 Subject: [Announce] PyCon AU 2017 is calling for proposals! Message-ID: Welcome all -- coders, tinkerers, contributors, presenters, thinkers, teachers and artists... our call for proposals is finally here! In just a few more months, PyCon AU will be in full swing. We have developed both our community engagement and technical depth year on year, consolidating in people?s hearts and minds the value of coming along to this fantastic event. Those who have presented or attended before can attest to the high calibre of our speakers, the quality of our technical content, and also the welcoming and inclusive approach to new speakers and people from a broad variety of backgrounds. Please visit https://2017.pycon-au.org/program/cfp/ for more details on how to submit a proposal for PyCon AU 2017. Regardless of whether you are intending to submit a proposal, please help us spread the word on twitter, Facebook and email, by sharing a link to this page, along with the hashtag #pyconau. Finally, although the website gnomes and bugfinding goblins have been working hard to achieve a smooth user experience, Murphy is as harsh lawmaker, and it?s possible you might need to contact us with questions or raise issues. 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