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

  • We entered week 11 of the round On March 4th, we concluded the round "December 2021 to March 2022" [1]. We will finalize finalized the current round in 3 weeksround with 5 projects and 5 interns, one intern per project. 

  • New round: We applied to participate in the round "May to August 2022" is opened [2]. We worked with marketing and publicity, sponsor relations, and fundraising on the message to call for mentors and for sponsors. After the final approval, Sally will share the messages via the corresponding MLs. Thank you so much, Bob Paulin, Joe Brockmeier, Sally Khudairi for your active contribution in designing these communications. 
  • we should receive at least one sponsorship before February 25, 2022, at 4pm UTC, to be able to participate in the program. If you are interested in the program, check out your inbox, you should receive an email soon. You can start with this page [3].

*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***

  • We had extensive discussions about the Bitergia-contract with marketing and publicity, legal, and fundraising. 
  • I sent the final version of the contract, including the recommended changes, to the rest of the team for their approval. Once it is approved it will be signed and sent to Bitergia. 
  • Content of the project: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) will program manage and analyze the status of Diversity & Inclusion within the Foundation and its community of users, members, and committers. The two main tasks are to (i) re-run the contributor survey with minor changes, and (ii) implement an improvement and learn from it using scientific methods.
  • The project plan has been started.

*** Project: EDI Website 

  • However, we didn't find sponsorships to move forward with the program. March 23rd at 4pm UTC is the deadline for Apache mentors to submit their Outreachy projects. We need budget for at least one project to join the program otherwise we would not be able to join during this round [3].

*** Project: User Experience Research on new contributors ***

  • Kick-off meeting with Bitergia. 
  • We started working on the preliminary review of the survey. This stable version will be open to discussion with the D&I working group for the final version. 
  • We started a discussion with Apache Beam for their feedback and contribution on the improvement-implementation action. No updates - no volunteers [4]

*** Operations

  • no updates.

## Committee members' changes:

  • No new membersWe have a new contributor working on the User Experience Research on new contributors project.

## References

[1] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2021-internship-round/

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[3] https://www.outreachy.org/sponsor/[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DI-11

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