I am willing to be a mentor for the Outreachy program if the project is regarding FreedomBox, but I think we really missed the deadline this time.
I don't know if we will be able to send in an application today. There are already two projects on the Debian Outreachy page [1]. And Debian is planning to take two interns this time [2]. 1. https://www.outreachy.org/2018-may-august/communities/debian/ 2. https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round15/ On Thursday 08 March 2018 01:41 PM, Nikhil Rayaprolu wrote: > It is great that you want to contribute to FreedomBox as a part of > Outreachy. I think for now a possibility would be to propose "Install > FreedomBox in a Container", which is listed as a GSoC project this > year with confirmed mentors Sunil Mohan Adapa, Dashamir Hoxha. Looking > at the timeline perspective you can also work on some of the critical > issues on Plinth https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/plinth as > part of your Outreachy project.Also as the deadline for a project to > be listed under Outreachy is March - 8 (Today). I doubt this would be > possible in such a short span. > > Also, I can mentor you on this project as I have experience with > Containers in my previous GSoC with FOSSASIA, and an experience > mentoring students as a Code-In mentor but I am not sure if I qualify > as a mentor as I was not actively involved in the community for the > past one year. Also as I am not involved with the administration of > the project, someone else has to get FreedomBox listed as an outreachy > project under debian. > > Nevertheless if listing the project under Outreachy is not possible, > you can still apply for the same through GSoC. In the meantime you can > explore FreedomBox and look at some beginner issues at the issue > tracker to get familiarized with the project. > > Nikhil Rayaprolu > > > On 8 March 2018 at 10:19, Sunil Mohan Adapa <su...@medhas.org > <mailto:su...@medhas.org>> wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 March 2018 10:45 PM, Eesha Dutta wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am Eesha Dutta. I am a student at International Institute of > > Information Technology, Hyderabad. I am experienced with Javascript, > > Python and Django and also a contributor to Open Humans > organisation. I > > came > > across FreedomBox through my seniors, Nikhil Rayaprolu and > Mridul Nagpal. I > > would like to contribute to the project and would like to know if > > FreedomBox is participating in Outreachy, this year. I found that > > FreedomBox was listed as an Outreachy project under Debian last > year and > > as Debian is again participating in Outreachy this year, I would > like to > > know if I could contribute to FreedomBox as an Outreachy student. > > > > I was participating last year as mentor last year but I won't have > enough time to spare this time. Let us hope others step in and > you find > a mentor and a good project within FreedomBox. > > -- > Sunil > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org > <mailto:Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > > <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss -- Regards Joseph Nuthalapati
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