I'm up for mentoring someone too.
Do we need to submit project proposals before 29th, or just say "yes, we'd like
to be involved"?
-a
On Sep 22 2020, at 12:14 pm, Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> wrote:
> Absolutely.! I'd love to help to come up with some ideas and help if there is
> someone who would like to step up!
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:00 PM Kaxil Naik <kaxiln...@gmail.com
> (mailto:kaxiln...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > 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
> > (mailto: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
> > > (mailto: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
> > > > (mailto: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
> > > > > (mailto: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
> > > > > >
> > >
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> > > --
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> > > Jarek Potiuk
> > > Polidea (https://www.polidea.com/) | Principal Software Engineer
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