Related comments from the Outreachy mentors list: On 02/19/2018 03:39 PM, Outreachy Organizers wrote: > Other mentors who have applicants contacting them privately - > Please also note that if (and only if) you add your chat/IRC/forum > nickname to your mentor information, applicants will see the following > paragraph: > > "Please try to contact the mentor on public community channels as much > as possible. Often other mentors for the project can answer your > question or point you in the right direction to get help. They may be > able to answer your question faster than emailing your mentor directly. > While it's fine to contact mentors privately with doubts, Outreachy > applicants and interns will need to learn how to ask questions and work > publicly through the community communication channels." > > You can add a nick by going to: https://www.outreachy.org/account/ > > > Hi, > > Thanks for letting me know about the standard text on the project > details view encouraging applicants to contact mentors privately. I've > committed a few fixes here: > > https://github.com/sagesharp/outreachy-django-wagtail/commit/1120bcedc057d0a88d011fe24da90b35fe76f04b > > It seems like that sentence is only displayed when the project hasn't > listed a newcomer-friendly tag in their issue tracker. I've changed it > to not display if the project has contribution information supplied. > > Second, there's a sentence that only appears if the project > mentors haven't provided the project repositories: > > "Applicants will need to contact project mentors to get information > about the project repositories" > > I've changed that sentence the project repositories to suggest one might > exist for the project, but wasn't provided. No mention of contacting a > mentor. > > Third, there was a sentence unconditionally displayed under all mentor > contact information: "Please contact the mentors for this internship > project to get information on how you can make a contribution during the > application process. Only applicants who make a contribution will be > accepted as interns." I've removed that. > > Finally, if applicants don't realize the project title is an accordian > menu that can be expanded, they may be emailing the coordinators when > they see this paragraph: > > "Each project will have one or more mentors. Outreachy applicants work > one-on-one with mentors to complete contributions to the project during > the application process. Only applicants who make a contribution to a > project will be eligible to be selected for an internship. Interns then > work directly with the mentors on their project during the three month > internship period." > > I don't know how to make it more obvious what the project titles are > accordians that can be expanded when clicked. Leaving the projects > expanded will cause issues if Mozilla ends up listing 15 projects, and I > don't want to deepen the hierarchy by adding separate project pages. > > If you have suggestions on how to fix this (especially any CSS magic!) > let me know. > > Thanks for the bug report, and I hope these changes help you a bit! > > Sage Sharp > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 02:01:50PM -0500, wrote: >> We are getting a deluge of "please help me find a mentor" >> emails, and I think I figured out why: >> >> "Applicants will need to contact project mentors to get information >> about the project repositories. The project uses an issue tracker to >> keep information about bugs to fix, project features to implement, >> documentation to write, and more. Applicants will need to contact a >> mentor to find out how they can make their first contributions to the >> project." >> >> Yet two paragraphs below that, we list the information about how to >> make a contribution. >> >> Could we modify that paragraph to indicate that the applicants should >> use the information provided to begin making contributions? >> >> Thanks! >> > _______________________________________________ > Mentors mailing list > ment...@lists.outreachy.org > https://lists.outreachy.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mentors >
On 02/20/2018 12:11 AM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Aman Pratap Singh > <amanprtpsi...@gmail.com <mailto:amanprtpsi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am Aman Pratap Singh, a CSE major at Indian Institute of > Technology Bhubaneswar. I am writing this with regard to Debian > organization's project idea for Google Summer of Code titled > /Firefox and Thunderbird plugins for free software habits/. I am > interested in working on this project. > > I request to please brief me with steps to getting started. > > Sincerely, > Aman Pratap Singh > https://amanpratapsingh.in > > > It seems to me kind of spamming if all the students post to > debian-outreach and ask for help. > This is why each project has its own mentors. Otherwise it is just > stealing valuable time from everyone. > Maybe I am wrong, but I think that students should not be allowed to ask > for help on debian-outreach. > They should contact the mentors instead. > > Dashamir >