From c6e6133dd41e11aa40fe9f44babe6074b5aec0ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:23:35 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Update last date of registrations --- .../news/sfcamp-dived-2021-registration-announcement.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/content/english/news/sfcamp-dived-2021-registration-announcement.md b/website/content/english/news/sfcamp-dived-2021-registration-announcement.md index 8a39e9d..1342666 100644 --- a/website/content/english/news/sfcamp-dived-2021-registration-announcement.md +++ b/website/content/english/news/sfcamp-dived-2021-registration-announcement.md @@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ title: Registrations are now open for Software Freedom Camp Diversity Edition 20 date: 2021-09-18T00:00:00+05:30 --- +Update: Last date of registration for learners extended to 5th November 2021. + The world celebrates Software Freedom Day today with the aim of increasing awareness of Free Software and its virtues, and it is in the same spirit and excitement that we announce today the Software Freedom Camp Diversity Edition. Diversity edition is aiming to reach out to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by under-representation in the technical industry in India. The Software Freedom Camp is an online mentorship camp on free software organized by Free Software Community of India in association with Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle-IIT Bombay and Egalitarians. It will start in October and run till end of February. The Software Freedom Camp will be a valuable opportunity for anyone who wishes to become a contributor to free software projects but feels like they need structured mentorship and a learning environment to get started. It will also be an opportunity for existing free software contributors to get new contributors to their project and facilitate their entry into the free software community. -Application links for learners and mentors are open now on the camp website and will close for learners on October 15 2021. +Application links for learners and mentors are open now on the camp website and will close for learners on November 5 2021 (initial date of October 15 was extended). The camp promises to be a safe space for learners to acquaint themselves with the philosophy of free software while also getting equipped to become free software contributors. In the first phase of the camp, learners will go through a series of assignments, interactions, movie screenings, and other activities that introduces them to the social benefits of free software and exposes them to the free software culture. They will get help in using free software on their own devices. At the end of this phase, they will get a chance to explore various free software projects and working with mentors they will be asked to create working proposals for contributing to these projects. The camp will match each learner to a mentor based on their proposal. In the second phase, each learner starts their free software contribution as per their accepted proposal, closely working with their mentor. There will be periodic review meetings to address the needs of the learners and help them stay on track. -- GitLab