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GNOME Journal: Where are they now? The Participants of the 2006 Women's Summer Outreach Program

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http://gnomejournal.org – As the GNOME Project gears up to kick off a new Outreach Program for Women (OPW), Marina Zhurakhinskaya and Hanna Wallach look back at the Women’s Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) from 2006. Marina follows up with the participants to see what they learned and how OPW can benefit from past experience. (Software)

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