Hi Austin, thanks for reaching out to us! What you plan on doing sounds awesome and we'd love to help you out as much as we can of course.
As you noticed yourself, we are still in the early days of setting up the training project and currently mostly involved in organizational day-to-day things, but we certainly hope to leave that stage soon and actually get to work. So I am unsure how much actual help we can currently provide, to be honest, but please do stay tuned into this list and if you have any suggestions, by all means, let us know!! Also, as you said there is a lot of activity around inclusion and diversity currently, I believe a proposal is being prepared for the board currently and a mailing list specifically for this topic has been set up / will be set up shortly. They are currently at an even earlier state than we are I think, but that might be well worth following as well for you. Again, sorry for not having anything concrete at this moment! Best regards, Sönke On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:39 PM Austin Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Apache Training, > > I am working with the administration at a local community college students > to learn things coding/computing. Computer Science is an 'impacted' major, > meaning not all students are not even able to gain access to those classes, > so there is motivation to figure out how to expand those capabilities (and > I am specifically in discussion for ways to train immigrant and ESL > students). > > This has me exploring both what is available and what would be good to > create. Outside of the technical skills, I am imagining teaching them > about (and encourage living by) the Apache Way. It seems such awareness > would be beneficial to people as they are learning (and anyone more > generally); In addition this might serve as a pipeline for the future for > people that would contribute positively to Apache. Furthermore, elsewhere > I've seen desires to continue to increase diversity around the foundation, > this specific use-case and population would then potentially also further > those goals. > > This is a super open question, and I see this group is just beginning. > Looking forward to finding the positive ways to contribute. > > Cheers, > Austin > -- Sönke Liebau Partner Tel. +49 179 7940878 OpenCore GmbH & Co. KG - Thomas-Mann-Straße 8 - 22880 Wedel - Germany
