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Any PMC member can mentor in their project implicitly. Additional people can mentor with lazy consensus from the PMC. This should be done by contacting a project to make sure there are no objections to a non-PMC member representing the project as a mentor and can be done at the same time as a project proposal is being made. This is our own internal guideline; individual PMCs can make their own rules about mentors within that project. Generally speaking, mentoring here follows the same qualifications required to mentor in Google Summer of Code or similar community projects.
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- Register on Outreachy and apply to mentor for the Apache community
- Submit a project for interns to work on
- Dedicate at least 5 hours a week during a three month internship period to work with an Outreachy intern
- Read the Outreachy mentor FAQ for answer to questions specific to Outreachy
- Define starter tasks for internship applicants to work on in the application period
- Avoid burnout during the contribution period and make sure things are set up appropriately
- Review internship applications
- Communicate with intern via preferred media
- Provide feedback via a friction log of the various stages of participation in this program
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