Hi all, (mentors on CC list)

a quick note that there are significant changes to Outreachy this year, which 
in my view will make it a little harder to participate.

Namely
* This round, instead of having communities create landing pages on their own 
websites or wikis coordinators and mentors will create accounts on the 
Outreachy website
* This means we would have to copy projects from our wiki to 
https://www.outreachy.org <https://www.outreachy.org/> - I don't know what the 
template is yet, but this may create some extra work for mentors 
* The Outreachy application period opens in two weeks, on February 12.
* Apart from this, there is fairly little information on the timeline and 
process for this round and Outreachy mail ended up in my spam folder: I was 
polling the website for info and there was not much 

Current status:
* I have claimed the Xen Project page on https://www.outreachy 
<https://www.outreachy/> - waiting for it to be approved (I tried with an 
xenproject.org <http://xenproject.org/> alias which did not work)
* We have funding for one intern (maybe more) and thus qualify. Whether I can 
find more funds, depends on the cost of the developer summit. Hopefully I will 
know more this week (I expect concrete developer summit proposal this week)

Need input:
* For us too participate I need at least 3-4 mentors and projects to be added 
to https://www.outreachy.org <https://www.outreachy.org/> 
* If you are willing to do this, please raise your hand now by replying to this 
thread or contacting me privately and I will help 

Best Regards
Lars

> On 8 Jan 2018, at 15:19, Lars Kurth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> it's this time of the year again to prepare for GSoC/Outreachy! The 
> application deadline for orgs is January 23 - February 11: ideally we will 
> have a good updated lists of projects by then as Google will look at the 
> quality of the project list. I will also need co-org admins: @Mindy are you 
> willing to do this again? Maybe also someone from the Unikraft project. That 
> helps ensure that we have reps from various subproject that ensure that we 
> don't miss deadlines.
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Lars
> 
> Existing Projects (for people on the CC list)
> =================
> If you are CC'ed you have one or several projects listed on 
> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects ... What I need 
> you to do is to
> 
> a) Weed out any projects that have been completed or are not relevant any more
>   @Mindy: For MirageOS folks, please check and update 
> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects and do the same
> 
> b) Decide whether you still want to mentor:
>   This requires some of your bandwidth from mid-Feb to March 2018 to work on 
> small projects
>   The actual work happens from May 14 - Aug 14
> 
>   If not, please reply and list projects affected
>   If yes, please also do so and I will update the Verified field accordingly
> 
> c) Add any new information to existing projects as relevant. 
> 
> 
> New Projects
> ============
> Feel free to add new projects to the list, but if you do so please let the 
> list know. We are not going to be very strict with 
> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects#Conventions_for_Projects_and_Project_Mentors,
>  but getting someone else to review your proposal is a good idea. 
> 
> Unikraft
> --------
> I created a place-holder for Unikraft at 
> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects#Unikraft as 
> Unikraft project members indicated they want to participate.
> You probably do want to set expectations with regards to start-up tasks and 
> come up with a set of tasks to act as a filter for applicants (e.g. showing 
> that they set up the environment, etc.) 
> 
> 
> Specific Improvements to the project documentation
> ==================================================
> 
> Hypervisor start-up tasks
> -------------------------
> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Development_Projects contains: 
> "An easy way to get started (and show that you can set up the Xen Development 
> Environment, fix an issue, build and test Xen, submit a patch, etc.) is to 
> address a suitable number of Coverity Scan issues. Ask on xen-devel@ for a 
> set of suitable Coverity issues. Note that this does not require any access 
> to the Coverity scan results. Open bugs to fix under the Small Code 
> Contribution Requirement can also be found on bugs.xenproject.org"
> 
> Do we want to change this? Finding small get started projects is always a 
> little bit of a problem. Maybe we can prepare a better list somewhere.
> 
> In-tree vs. Wiki based projects
> -------------------------------
> We could also decide to move Hypervisor related ideas in-tree somewhere and 
> generate a list if that makes things easier. But this is not necessary, in 
> particular given with everything that is going on. I just wanted to raise 
> this as an option: I am not particularly wedded to using the wiki.
> 

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