Bumping this thread again, the deadline is now 29 September, so please let us know if someone is willing to mentor.
Me & Jarek would definitely be happy to help wherever we can. On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 1:47 PM Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> wrote: > 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 <kaxiln...@gmail.com> 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 <kaxiln...@gmail.com> 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 <kaxiln...@gmail.com> 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/> > >
