2015-09-15 16:59 GMT-03:00 Victoria Martínez de la Cruz < victo...@vmartinezdelacruz.com>:
> Hi everyone, > > OpenStack will join next round of the Outreachy internships and we need > you help: we are looking for full-time contributors willing to share some > of their time, knowledge and experience to make our open-source > organization more diverse and have the opportunity to meet new talents. > > *What is Outreachy* > > Outreachy helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open > source software get involved. Read more in > https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/. > > OpenStack has been participating in this internships since Jan-Apr 2013, > and we have had really good results: we got more full-time contributors, we > got lots of good quality contributions, interns had the opportunity to give > a great step in their professional careers and also it has been an > enriching experience for everyone involved with the internship. More > information about OpenStack participation in Outreachy can be find in > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy. > > *Applications open next September 22nd, and the deadline for applications > is October 27th. *https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch > > *TLDR* > > Contributors interested on mentoring in Outreachy, please feel free to ask > any question and ask for further directions here or in #openstack-opw in > Freenode. > > Try to find and propose a task for the next couple of months for your > mentee. The task should be able to be finished on three months. Add this > idea in this wiki https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Internship_ideas. > > Please join #openstack-opw as well, to welcome applicants and help them > with their setups. > > Another way to get in touch is through the internships mailing list, > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-internships. > > *Mentors* > > *Time requirements* > > Being a mentor shouldn't take a lot of time from your working week. > Mentors from previous rounds organized differently: you can schedule a > weekly meeting to catch up with your mentee latest work, questions and next > steps; some other prefer having a daily short meeting; you choose how to > organize your agenda. > > Consider that different mentees will need different guidance, but we aim > to work with proactive and independent people. This qualities are defined > during the application process, so make sure to participate actively in > this so you make sure you get a mentee you can work with. > > *Tasks* > > Mentors are supposed to act as a channel for mentees with the rest of the > community. You should be able to help them understand the community > workflow (tools, milestones), introduce them to the team you are working > with (so they also have other people to learn from), help them to gain > confidence and participate of the weekly meetings. > > You are not supposed to teach them the basics (say, we cannot have people > that cannot program in Python), but you should be able to point them in the > right direction with the tools we use in the community and they should be > able to learn at their own pace. > > *Mentees* > > *Time requirements* > > It is a full-time internship, so mentees are expected to work 40 hours per > week in the assigned project. > > *Tasks* > > Mentees are supposed to devote their time on learning about the community, > getting familiar with the tools used to contribute to OpenStack, > understanding the basics of the code base of the project they are working > on and finishing the assigned task before the internship ends. They are > also encouraged to help with bug triaging, bug fixing and code reviewing. > All this should be shared in a personal blog mentees have to set up when > they start with their internships. > > Thanks all, > > Victoria > Anyone? Please, this is a community effort. Internships won't happen if we don't have enough mentors. Thanks, Victoria
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