Hello folks, The ASF (through our Diversity & Inclusion committee) is a participating organization in Outreachy, a program organized by the Software Freedom Conservancy. Outreachy provides paid internships to those who are under-represented in technology; for example, in the US, this includes women, individuals from the African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American/Alaskan/Hawaiian communities, among others. More details on applicant eligibility are detailed in [0].
This upcoming Outreachy internship will run Dec 2020-March 2021 [1]. Interns will work full-time and remotely with individual mentors from our community (note: mentors can be PMC members or individuals approved by the PMC of the project). Interns can work on a range of projects, such as programming, documentation, data science, user experience, marketing, graphic design, and more. Additional details about how to structure and scope projects are detailed in the mentor FAQ [2]. Several internship slots are available to Apache Projects: all PMCs are welcome to apply to propose work projects for Outreachy interns. The program works in a similar manner as GSoC, where candidate interns select which project/activity they’d like to work on. The more work projects proposed, the greater your Project’s chance of being selected! This is a great chance to give deserving individuals of diverse backgrounds, genders, and ages a chance to contribute to Open Source in many different ways. Helping others helps Apache Projects and our communities! If you are a PMC member and you want to participate with your Project, please follow the next steps (otherwise, see †): * Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern. If this is your first time mentoring, you’ll need to fill out [3]. * Understand the commitment to be a mentor. Please read the mentor FAQ [2], sign the mentor agreement [3], and see the general overview of the mentoring program [1]. † If you are not a PMC member, obtain a lazy consensus vote from your PMC by submitting your proposal to its corresponding public developer mailing list; if your proposal doesn't get any rejections in 72 hours, it’s considered accepted. Register your project on the Outreachy website. You will find the form on the following website [4]. The form is pretty detailed; just follow the instructions. Also, you'll find some tips on what makes a good project in [5]. We can review your project proposal before you submit it. In that case, please, send us your proposal including the information required in [4]. 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 [6]. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project [5]. Add an “outreachy20dec” 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. [0] https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/ [1] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/#mentor [2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ [3] https://github.com/outreachy/website/blob/master/docs/mentor-agreement.md [4] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/ [5]https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project [6] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/Example+Project -- Matt Sicker Secretary, Apache Software Foundation VP Logging Services, ASF
