Just to reiterate what Kaxil wrote - there were some many good things about the internships we had!
Happy to help and I can even co-mentor a project or two with someone (co-mentoring worked great!) J. On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 1:43 PM Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding the email from Matt, secretary of ASF: > > Greetings, > > The ASF is participating again in Outreachy, a program organized by > the Software Freedom Conservancy for mentoring people who are > under-represented in technology with internships working on open > source software doing software development, documentation writing, > data science work, design work, and other related tasks. Volunteers > from these OSS communities sign up to mentor these interns by > submitting project proposals [0][1][2]. For Apache, PMC members are > all welcome to apply; others who wish to mentor for a PMC should seek > lazy consensus from the specific PMC for that project to make sure the > PMC has no objection to that individual mentoring for them. Mentors > will also need to read and sign Outreachy's mentor agreement [3]. We > have funding secured for at least six interns, but if we end up with > more strong applicants than that, Outreachy sometimes allows > additional interns from their general funding. > > *Important dates*: > > 24 Sep 2020: ***last day to submit project proposals*** > 01 Oct 2020: contribution period begins for applicants > 31 Oct 2020: contribution period ends > ?? Nov 2020: intern selections > 23 Nov 2020: interns announced > 01 Dec 2020: internship begins > 02 Mar 2020: internship ends > > [0]: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/ > [1]: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ > [2]: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project > [3]: > https://github.com/outreachy/website/blob/master/docs/mentor-agreement.md > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:40 PM Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The deadline for the proposal submission is *24 September*. So please >> let me know if anyone is interested or if you'll have any questions. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:36 PM Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Apache Software Foundation has participated in the next round of >>> Outreachy Internships (https://www.outreachy.org/). In the last round >>> (May-Aug 2020), Apache Airflow submitted the project proposals for the >>> Building the new Airflow API where Omair <https://github.com/OmairK> >>> and Ephraim <https://github.com/ephraimbuddy> were selected for the >>> internship under 2 mentors: Jarek and me along with super useful guidance >>> from Kamil. >>> >>> Blogpost from them about their internship: >>> - >>> https://airflow.apache.org/blog/experience-with-airflow-as-an-outreachy-intern/ >>> - https://airflow.apache.org/blog/apache-airflow-for-newcomers/ >>> - >>> https://airflow.apache.org/blog/implementing-stable-api-for-apache-airflow/ >>> >>> Katia Rojas from ASF has asked us if we (Airflow committers) are willing >>> to submit proposals for this round. I think this is a really nice >>> opportunity since we need good firepower for Airflow 2.0 too. Is anyone >>> willing to be a mentor (co-mentoring is fine too -- worked out well last >>> time with me & Jarek) from the existing Airflow committers?. >>> >>> Outreachy has really great guidelines around how the internship would >>> work and sends out a newsletter every week with the goals and assignment >>> (on a higher level) for that week. >>> >>> Jarek & I would definitely be willing to help the new mentors with >>> filling the proposals and guidelines in general if someone is interested. >>> >>> Please let me know if anyone is interested in mentoring and sending out >>> proposals. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kaxil >>> >>> -- Jarek Potiuk Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
