Thanks for reaching out Matt, I will literally go on a brainstorming exercise here and just drop a bunch of ideas. We can pick some of them from the list and encourage other to also add to it.
IDEAS: - Contact PMCs directly - Reach out to ASF teams such as conferences, infra, ponymail, kibble, etc. and see if they could use the help - Propose projects for D&I for example, build our website - Perhaps also defining a project to revamp the ASF website - Think about localization as a type of project and encourage projects to do it - Promote the opportunity in the members list but with a list of ideas so people get inspired - Reach out to the incubator and see if any of the podling could use the help - Create cohorts by roles, e.g. build a taskforce of tech-writers or designers interested in mentoring outreachy interns despite of the project they will work on. This idea is to solve for projects that would benefit from design or tech writers for they don't have these folks in their PMCs so they can't mentor. - Promote in communications about ApacheCon(?) - Promote in the ASF Newsletter And... I ran out of ideas, but this could give us a start. On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 at 10:57, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We've sent out a couple emails to the PMCs mailing lists about the > upcoming Outreachy round. That email was also sent to this list which > is archived here: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2bc70e1de5903ed8d841af2265be78c566265165351a0d4c848dbb83%40%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E > > We currently have 12 more days for project proposals and initial > mentors. As of today, we have zero projects submitted. While there is > still time, this is worrisome. Katia and I have discussed many times > in our regular D&I Outreachy meetings about how we could try to > recruit projects to join this effort, especially since we are able to > handle more internships than in the previous rounds. > > Can we get some ideas and actions on how to spread the word? I will > note that I am not a communications expert, nor am I particularly fond > of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other Pachinko machine media > optimized for "engagement", so I'm really working in the dark here. > With over 350 different projects going on around here, I had initially > assumed that the law of large numbers would be on our side, but that > doesn't appear to be the case. > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >
