hi there. just a reminder! cheers
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:46 PM Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Dear all, > > The Community Bridge platform was launched earlier this year by the > Linux Foundation. It’s a set of services available to LF projects to > help them build stronger ecosystems, and foster developers > relationship within their respective communities. See [1] and [2]. The > Yocto Project has joined the Community Bridge Funding and Mentorship > programs. > > If you have any specific questions about these programs, please do not > hesitate to reach out to me. > > Today, we would like to talk more about the mentorship program. We > have tried several initiatives in the past about interns and > mentorship, and we would like to do that again using the new LF > platform. A mentorship program for the Yocto Project is a good > opportunity for our overall community to reach out to new developers, > improve our developers diversity. It will help increase the pool of > available developers with appropriate skills about the Yocto Project > and Open Embedded technologies and as a consequence create a more > sustainable ecosystem around the Yocto Project. It also offers > existing senior developers the chance to become mentors, and share > their knowledge! > > We would like to request feedback about how to best define the Yocto > Project Mentorship program. > > The structure of the mentorship is flexible and we can adjust as > needed. Our initial thought is to set 12-week project, which is what > the Linux Kernel Mentorship program is using, see [4]. The overall > process involves: > > 1. Finding / defining work items for potential mentees. > 2. Get appropriate funding for mentees’ stipends > 3. Recruit mentors within our community > 4. Review and select mentees’ applications > > There has already been some work on the potential work items in the > form of the newcomer bugs, some of which could be turned into work > suitable for a mentorship programme. > > === Call for ACTION === > > * We need your help for any of the items above, and especially #1 to > get started. Whether you are a long time contributor to the project or > you recently joined our mailing list, your feedback will be greatly > appreciated. > * If you are interested to participate as a mentor, please let me know! > * You don’t need to be a project expert to be a mentor, you need to > know how the project works and be willing to help guide someone > through their task. > > There is no specific timeline set yet, it will most likely depend on > how much feedback we receive about this initiative, but most likely > the internships will have to be tied to the Yocto Project release > timeline. > > If you have any questions or any suggestions, please reach out to me! > cheers, > Nico > > [1] > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2019/03/the-linux-foundation-launches-new-communitybridge-platform-to-help-sustain-open-source-communities/ > [2] https://communitybridge.org/ > [3] https://people.communitybridge.org/ > [4] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lkmp -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto