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Hi folks, 

The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community for the Outreachy Program 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 community 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 from underrepresented groups.

If you are part of ASF and you want to participate with your project, we ask you to do the following things by no later than 2021-March-07, 16:00 UTC (project submission deadline):

1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern. If you are a PMC member you can directly apply on the Outreachy website. However, if you are not a member but you are part of a PMC, you need to get a lazy consensus from your PMC, this implies a discussion on your dev list about your idea to be a mentor. if no one rejects your proposal in 72H then you obtained the lazy consensus. 

2. Understand the commitment to be a mentor. Please read [1].

3. Submit your request to be a mentor on the Outreachy website.[2]
4. Submit your project on the Outreachy website[3]. The form is pretty detailed; just follow the instructions. Also, you'll find some tips on what makes a good project in [5]. We can review your project proposal before you submit it. In that case, please, send us your proposal including the information required in [3]. 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, ...). You can see an example of project submission at [6].

5. Ensure we can capture a contribution friction log from you and your interns at the end of the internship. Make a copy of the google doc[4], fill it up following the instructions, download it as a PDF (File -> Download) and send it to us at private@diversity.apache.org. This will help us to improve the experience in the Outreachy program at Apache and future programs.

6. Add the “outreachy21may” label to issues related to your project. It’s also useful to use a “newbie-friendly” label to distinguish the starter tasks from the larger or more complex project tasks. 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. Use of the Jira labels should be portable to other bug trackers.

7. For more information please see our Outreachy FAQ page. 

[1]https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/#mentor

[2] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/

[3] https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2021-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/

[4] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MXTwunKaoq6xGoASfvF6GyIP7QNHC0LBz_onnrEgiuc/edit?usp=sharing

[5]https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project

[6] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/Example+Project

Hi folks, 

The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community, second round, in the Outreachy Program 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 community 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 2020-Feb-25, 16:00 UTC (project list submission is due two days later):

1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern

2. Understand the commitment to be a mentor. Please read [1].

3. Ensure we can capture a contribution friction log from your interns. We will come back to you with more information about this requirement. This requirement could be that you fill up a specific report for the friction log. Please take this into account along with the Outreachy responsibilities.

4. Get consensus from your project’s PMC about the previous points and move to the next step. This will involve a discussion on the dev list about the previous points and resulting in lazy consensus to proceed.

5. Register your project on the Outreachy website. You will find the form on the following website [2] [3]. The form is pretty detailed; just follow the instructions. Also, you'll find some tips on what makes a good project in [4]. We can review your project proposal before you submit it. In that case, please, send us your proposal including the information required in [2]. 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, ...). You can see an example project submission at [5].

6. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project [5]. Add an “outreachy20may” 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. Use of the Jira labels should be portable to other bug trackers.

[1]https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/#mentor

[2]https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-may-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/

[3]https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/

[4]https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project

[5] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/Example+Project

Hello Apache PMCs --I hope you're having a great week thus far.

The ASF (through our Diversity & Inclusion committee) is a mentoring organization with Outreachy, a program organized by the Software Freedom Conservancy. Outreachy provides paid internships to those who are under-represented in technology, including women, individuals from the African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American/Alaskan/Hawaiian communities, among others.

This year's Outreachy internships will run May-August 2020. Interns will work full-time and remotely with individual mentors from our community (= PMC members). Interns can work on a range of projects, such as programming, documentation, data science, user experience, marketing, graphic design, and more.

Several internships are available to Apache Projects: all PMCs are welcome to apply to propose work projects for Outreachy interns. The program works in a similar manner as GSoC, where candidate interns select which project/activity they’d like to work on. The more work projects proposed, the greater your Project's chance of being selected!

This is a great chance to give deserving individuals of diverse backgrounds, genders, and ages a chance to contribute to Open Source in many different ways. Helping others helps Apache Projects and our communities.

NOTE: The deadline to submit work project proposals to is 25 February 2020 at 4PM UTC. We encourage you to review the Outreachy mentor FAQ as you consider this opportunity https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/

Those PMCs ready to apply as mentors may do so directly at https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/

For help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache coordinators --Matt Sicker, Awasum Yannick, and Katia Rojas-- at <dev@diversity.apache.org>.

To learn more about ASF Diversity & Inclusion, visit https://diversity.apache.org/
To learn more about Outreachy, visit https://www.outreachy.org/

We appreciate your interest and look forward to hearing from you.

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
2. Understand the commitment to be a mentor. Please read [1] [4].
3. Ensure we can capture a contribution friction log from your interns. We will come back to you with more information about this requirement. This requirement could be that you fill up a specific report for the friction log. Please take this into account along with the Outreachy responsibilities.
4. Get consensus from your project’s PMC about the previous points and move to the next step. 
5. Register your project in the Outreachy website. You will find the form (required internship project details and optional internship project details) in the following website [2]. The form is pretty detailed; just follow the instructions. Also, you'll find some tips on what makes a good project in [3]. We can review your project proposal  before you submit it. In that case, please, send us your proposal including the information required in [2]. 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, ...). You can see an example project submission at [6].
6. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project [5]. 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. Use of the Jira labels should be portable to other bug trackers.
   

[1]https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/#mentor

[2]https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/

[3]https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project

[4]The Outreachy mentor contract, which you as an individual will be required to sign.

[5]https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI

[6] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/Example+Project

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>.