On 8/16/19 12:37 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > hi there. > just a reminder! > cheers
Maybe mention this during the BoF in next week's ELC? - armin > > 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