Fwd: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help mentor under-represented contributors

[Willem Jiang <wi...@gmail.com>]

Just Forward this information to the mailing list.
We need to think about some project ideas which are good fro the newbie to take.
It's a good opportunity for us to introduce some new blood from community.

Please note we need to take action before 2020-Feb-25, 16:00 UTC.


Willem Jiang

Twitter: willemjiang
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From: Matt Sicker <ma...@apache.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 4:22 AM
Subject: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to
help mentor under-represented contributors
To: ASF Marketing & Publicity <pr...@apache.org>
Cc: <de...@diversity.apache.org>, <de...@community.apache.org>


Hi folks,

The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS
community, second round, in the Outreachy Program to work with
Outreachy organizers to offer remote internships to applicants around
the world.  With this program, we are looking forward to improving
inclusion in our community by understanding what are the barriers that
underrepresented groups in the tech industry have while trying to
start their journey.

Outreachy's goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in
the technology industry. Outreachy interns will work remotely with
mentors on projects ranging from programming, user experience,
documentation, illustration, and graphic design, to data science.
Outreachy interns will receive stipends for developing said projects
full-time for three months.

Mentors will provide mentoring and project ideas and in return have
the opportunity to get new participants - most importantly - to
identify and bring in new committers from underrepresented groups.

If you are an ASF committer and you want to participate with your
project, we ask you to do the following things by no later than
2020-Feb-25, 16:00 UTC (project list submission is due two days
later):

Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern

Understand the commitment to be a mentor. Please read [1].

Ensure we can capture a contribution friction log from your interns.
We will come back to you with more information about this requirement.
This requirement could be that you fill up a specific report for the
friction log. Please take this into account along with the Outreachy
responsibilities.

Get consensus from your project’s PMC about the previous points and
move to the next step. This will involve a discussion on the dev list
about the previous points and resulting in lazy consensus to proceed.

Register your project on the Outreachy website. You will find the form
on the following website [2] [3]. The form is pretty detailed; just
follow the instructions. Also, you'll find some tips on what makes a
good project in [4]. We can review your project proposal before you
submit it. In that case, please, send us your proposal including the
information required in [2]. Please be as specific as possible when
describing your idea. Include the programming language, the tools and
skills required, but try not to scare potential students away! They
are supposed to learn what's required before the program starts. Use
labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang,
python, brainfuck, ...) or technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar,
...). You can see an example project submission at [5].

Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project [5]. Add an
“outreachy20may” label to issues related to your project. You should
include links to search filters listing these issues in your project
application. It’s also useful to use a “newbie-friendly” label to
distinguish the starter tasks from the larger or more complex project
tasks. This will provide tasks for applicants to complete during the
application process. If your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g.httpd,
ooo), you can use the Diversity & Inclusion board to coordinate with
your applicants, just use the “Outreachy” component. Use of the Jira
labels should be portable to other bug trackers.

[1] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/#mentor
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
[5] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/Example+Project



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