I’d honestly expect that several components here are prime candidates for a more student-heavy audience, particularly the more academic-aligned components like the math ones in particular. The components are also low level enough to not require experience in any specific frameworks which is nice. I think the difficult part is simply curating enough starter tasks for one or more applicants to complete in order to choose an intern.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 05:47 Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Is "Commons" willing to set up itself for welcoming new > people who, in order to contribute to the projects, might > need more support than the usual asynchronous review > of patches? > > The ASF participates in GSoC[1] and Outreachy[2] and > some Apache projects seem well prepared for dealing with > the mentoring requirements and application selection process. > > Last year, we[3] participated in GSoC, with mitigated results. > Maybe it was partly due to the lack of experience with these > programs, especially on how to gauge the candidates (wrt > to the expected benefit for the project). > > Some people start to ask questions about their eventual > application.[4][5] > Is "Commons" too complicated for the target audience of > those initiatives? > > Regards, > Gilles > > [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > [2] https://www.outreachy.org/ > [3] Rob Tompkins, Eric Barnhill, Alex Herbert, and I. > [4] https://markmail.org/message/n5prdwkaukw5ji37 > [5] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUMBERS-70?focusedCommentId=17028479&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17028479 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
