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

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