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Posted to announce@apache.org by Katia Rojas <ka...@apache.org> on 2019/08/17 11:39:21 UTC
[ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
mentor under-represented contributors
Hello folks,
The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community in
the Outreachy Program [1] 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 communities 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 2019-Sep-17 23:00
UTC (project list submission are due a week later):
1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that
you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution
friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then
move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next
step.
2. Register your project with Outreachy
Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. 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, ...).
If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache
coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <bo...@gmail.com>,. "Awasum Yannick" <
yannickawasum@gmail.com>,. "Katia Rojas" <Ka...@gmail.com>.
3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
Add an “outreachy19dec” 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.
[4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
P.S.: this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to.
References:
[1] https://www.outreachy.org
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI
[6]
https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
Re: Mentorship Program
Posted by Pablo Estrada <pa...@google.com>.
Hmmm that's an interesting idea. Yeah, you're right that emailing the big
public dev@ list is intimidating, and people aren't always in the mindset
to help someone new. I still remember one of my first questions was
answered with a link to a Google search for that question.
Having a new mailing list that is specifically there for beginners can
help. It wouldn't add too much work, but it may make it easier for
beginners to participate. On the other hand, it adds a few extra moderation
burdens, and I'm sure there are legitimate concerns about splitting the
community. But I think I'm generally in favor - if anything, as an
experiment. What do others think about having a mailing list for beginners?
Code walkthroughs sound good too : ) - I'll try to do something again in a
couple months. I think that can be valuable from different members of the
community working on different areas.
Best
-P.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:45 AM sridhar inuog <sr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Beam Community,
> I am new to this community and It has been a
> great experience so far. I am especially thankful to Rui Wang for making
> this experience smooth and enjoyable. I want others to have the same
> experience as well. For that, I suggest Beam community have formal
> Mentorship program or at least have an alias for newbies. As this is a
> virtual team it is not possible to walk up to someone and ask some basic
> questions when they are not busy. I am a bit shy sending an email with
> simple questions to the same alias where architecture level discussions are
> happening and having an avenue for that will help people like me. I have
> seen such emails only once on this alias and no further emails from that
> user. I also see some jira issues assigned but not worked, granted there
> could be many reasons for that but I am sure more people will benefit from
> having mentors.
>
> Just to be clear I am suggesting permanent
> mentorship program or alias for newbies in this community which is separate
> from what is proposed in the email below. If such a thing exists, can you
> please point me to it. Some of the activities that can be done under this
> are code walkthroughs. It was great that Pablo Estrada organized such an
> event once. Some of these may be part of local beam summits but not
> everyone is able to attend those. I think facilitating new developers
> adoption to the community will make this community strong and more
> productive.
>
> Thanks,
> Sridhar
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:33 AM Kenneth Knowles <ke...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Seeking mentors and proposals. This could be a great opportunity to build
>> and diversify Beam's community.
>>
>> If you are not familiar with Outreachy, you may start by thinking of it
>> as "like Google Summer of Code for groups under-represented in tech". You
>> mentor someone remotely and Outreachy pays them a stipend to contribute to
>> Beam.
>>
>> Kenn
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Katia Rojas <ka...@apache.org>
>> Date: Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:16 AM
>> Subject: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
>> mentor under-represented contributors
>> To: <an...@apache.org>
>>
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community
>> in the Outreachy Program [1] 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 communities 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 2019-Sep-17
>> 23:00 UTC (project list submission are due a week later):
>>
>> 1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
>>
>> Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that
>> you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution
>> friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then
>> move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next
>> step.
>>
>> 2. Register your project with Outreachy
>>
>> Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. 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, ...).
>>
>> If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the
>> Apache coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <bo...@gmail.com>,. "Awasum Yannick"
>> <ya...@gmail.com>,. "Katia Rojas" <Ka...@gmail.com>.
>>
>> 3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
>>
>> Add an “outreachy19dec” 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.
>>
>> [4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
>>
>> P.S.: this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to.
>>
>> References:
>>
>> [1] https://www.outreachy.org
>>
>> [2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
>>
>> [3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
>>
>> [4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
>>
>> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI
>>
>> [6]
>> https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
>>
>> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
>>
>>
>>
Mentorship Program
Posted by sridhar inuog <sr...@gmail.com>.
Beam Community,
I am new to this community and It has been a great
experience so far. I am especially thankful to Rui Wang for making this
experience smooth and enjoyable. I want others to have the same experience
as well. For that, I suggest Beam community have formal Mentorship program
or at least have an alias for newbies. As this is a virtual team it is not
possible to walk up to someone and ask some basic questions when they are
not busy. I am a bit shy sending an email with simple questions to the same
alias where architecture level discussions are happening and having an
avenue for that will help people like me. I have seen such emails only once
on this alias and no further emails from that user. I also see some jira
issues assigned but not worked, granted there could be many reasons for
that but I am sure more people will benefit from having mentors.
Just to be clear I am suggesting permanent
mentorship program or alias for newbies in this community which is separate
from what is proposed in the email below. If such a thing exists, can you
please point me to it. Some of the activities that can be done under this
are code walkthroughs. It was great that Pablo Estrada organized such an
event once. Some of these may be part of local beam summits but not
everyone is able to attend those. I think facilitating new developers
adoption to the community will make this community strong and more
productive.
Thanks,
Sridhar
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:33 AM Kenneth Knowles <ke...@apache.org> wrote:
> Seeking mentors and proposals. This could be a great opportunity to build
> and diversify Beam's community.
>
> If you are not familiar with Outreachy, you may start by thinking of it as
> "like Google Summer of Code for groups under-represented in tech". You
> mentor someone remotely and Outreachy pays them a stipend to contribute to
> Beam.
>
> Kenn
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Katia Rojas <ka...@apache.org>
> Date: Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:16 AM
> Subject: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
> mentor under-represented contributors
> To: <an...@apache.org>
>
>
> Hello folks,
>
> The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community
> in the Outreachy Program [1] 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 communities 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 2019-Sep-17 23:00
> UTC (project list submission are due a week later):
>
> 1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
>
> Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that
> you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution
> friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then
> move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next
> step.
>
> 2. Register your project with Outreachy
>
> Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. 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, ...).
>
> If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache
> coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <bo...@gmail.com>,. "Awasum Yannick" <
> yannickawasum@gmail.com>,. "Katia Rojas" <Ka...@gmail.com>.
>
> 3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
>
> Add an “outreachy19dec” 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.
>
> [4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
>
> P.S.: this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to.
>
> References:
>
> [1] https://www.outreachy.org
>
> [2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
>
> [3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
>
> [4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
>
> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI
>
> [6]
> https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
>
> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
>
>
>
Re: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
mentor under-represented contributors
Posted by Pablo Estrada <pa...@google.com>.
Hi Kenn,
I'd be happy to do something like this. I have a couple projects in mind as
well.
I'll do these tasks by the deadline.
Best
-P.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:29 PM Rui Wang <ru...@google.com> wrote:
> Thanks Kenn for forwarding this. I do have several BeamSQL related
> projects and I could apply for bing a mentor.
>
>>
>> 1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
>>
>> Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that
>> you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution
>> friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then
>> move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next
>> step.
>>
>
> In Beam community specifically, what would be our process to get consensus
> from Beam's PMC and move to the next step?
>
>
> -Rui
>
>
>> 2. Register your project with Outreachy
>>
>> Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. 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, ...).
>>
>> If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the
>> Apache coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <bo...@gmail.com>,. "Awasum Yannick"
>> <ya...@gmail.com>,. "Katia Rojas" <Ka...@gmail.com>.
>>
>> 3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
>>
>> Add an “outreachy19dec” 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.
>>
>> [4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
>>
>> P.S.: this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to.
>>
>> References:
>>
>> [1] https://www.outreachy.org
>>
>> [2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
>>
>> [3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
>>
>> [4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
>>
>> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI
>>
>> [6]
>> https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
>>
>> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
>>
>>
>>
Re: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
mentor under-represented contributors
Posted by Rui Wang <ru...@google.com>.
Thanks Kenn for forwarding this. I do have several BeamSQL related projects
and I could apply for bing a mentor.
>
> 1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
>
> Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that
> you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution
> friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then
> move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next
> step.
>
In Beam community specifically, what would be our process to get consensus
from Beam's PMC and move to the next step?
-Rui
> 2. Register your project with Outreachy
>
> Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. 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, ...).
>
> If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache
> coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <bo...@gmail.com>,. "Awasum Yannick" <
> yannickawasum@gmail.com>,. "Katia Rojas" <Ka...@gmail.com>.
>
> 3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
>
> Add an “outreachy19dec” 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.
>
> [4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
>
> P.S.: this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to.
>
> References:
>
> [1] https://www.outreachy.org
>
> [2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
>
> [3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
>
> [4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
>
> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI
>
> [6]
> https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
>
> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
>
>
>
Fwd: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
mentor under-represented contributors
Posted by Kenneth Knowles <ke...@apache.org>.
Seeking mentors and proposals. This could be a great opportunity to build
and diversify Beam's community.
If you are not familiar with Outreachy, you may start by thinking of it as
"like Google Summer of Code for groups under-represented in tech". You
mentor someone remotely and Outreachy pays them a stipend to contribute to
Beam.
Kenn
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Katia Rojas <ka...@apache.org>
Date: Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:16 AM
Subject: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
mentor under-represented contributors
To: <an...@apache.org>
Hello folks,
The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community in
the Outreachy Program [1] 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 communities 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 2019-Sep-17 23:00
UTC (project list submission are due a week later):
1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that
you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution
friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then
move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next
step.
2. Register your project with Outreachy
Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. 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, ...).
If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache
coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <bo...@gmail.com>,. "Awasum Yannick" <
yannickawasum@gmail.com>,. "Katia Rojas" <Ka...@gmail.com>.
3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
Add an “outreachy19dec” 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.
[4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
P.S.: this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to.
References:
[1] https://www.outreachy.org
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI
[6]
https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/