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The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community in the Outreachy Program [1] to work with Outreachy organizers to offer remote internships to applicants around the world. With this program, we are looking forward to improving inclusion in our communities by understanding what are the barriers that underrepresented groups in the tech industry have while trying to start their journey.
Outreachy's goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in the technology industry. Outreachy interns will work remotely with mentors on projects ranging from programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and graphic design, to data science. Outreachy interns will receive stipends for developing said projects full-time for three months.
Mentors will provide mentoring and project ideas and in return have the opportunity to get new participants - most importantly - to identify and bring in new committers from underrepresented groups.
If you are an ASF committer and you want to participate with your project, we ask you to do the following things by no later than 2019-Sep-17 23:00 UTC (project list submission are due a week later):
1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next step.
2. Register your project with Outreachy
Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. Please be as specific as possible when describing your idea. Include the programming language, the tools and skills required, but try not to scare potential students away. They are supposed to learn what's required before the program starts. Use labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang, python, brainfuck, ...) or technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...).
If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <boards@gmail.com>,. "Awasum Yannick" <yannickawasum@gmail.com>,. "Katia Rojas" <Katia.grojas@gmail.com>.
3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
Add an “outreachy19dec” label to issues related to your project. You should include links to search filters listing these issues in your project application. It’s also useful to use a “newbie-friendly” label to distinguish the starter tasks from the larger or more complex project tasks. This will provide tasks for applicants to complete during the application process.
If your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g.httpd, ooo), you can use the Diversity & Inclusion board to coordinate with your applicants, just use the “Outreachy” component.
[4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
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References:
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/