Current Report

19 Oct 2021

## Description:

- The Diversity and Inclusion VP works in collaboration with a team that contributes towards generating a current description of the D&I landscape in the industry and for the foundation. The team also focuses on developing resources the projects can leverage to increase diversity and inclusion in their communities.

## Issues:

None

## Activity:

*** Project: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy) ***

We continue on the round "December 2021 to March 2022". We finalized the project list period, on October 15th, with 5 projects submitted by different members/contributors of the community. The projects are:
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Add Open-Telemetry support for Apache Airflow [1]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Convert Airflow Local Development environment (Breeze) from Bash-based to Python-based [2]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Create REST API for Apache Gora functions [3]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Implement distributed tracing for Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. [4]
- 2021 December to 2022 March round - Apache - Rewrite Github Action workflows to Python [5]
Outreachy organizers communicated to us the current status of our fundings. We have received funds for 1 intern from Amazon, funds for 2 interns from Red hat, and funds for 2 interns from Indeed. A big thank you to our sponsors for supporting us on this program.
The contribution period is opened until November 5th, 4 pm UTC. We have received some contributions from 2 candidates so far.
Jarek Poliuk and Elad organized a workshop for Outreachy candidates on October 14th. Thank you so much Jarek and Elad for the great initiative. The workshop was focused on how the ASF works, how the Apache Airflow projects run, environment setup, what it means to contribute, how to ask for help, what to expect when it comes to response time, expectations, etc. [6]