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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OpenStack will join next
round of the Outreachy internships and we need you help: we are
looking for full-time contributors willing to share some of their
time, knowledge and experience to make our open-source
organization more diverse and have the opportunity to meet new
talents.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Outreachy helps people from
groups underrepresented in free and open source software get
involved. Read more in <a href="https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.gnome.org/<wbr>outreachy/</a>.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OpenStack has been
participating in this internships since Jan-Apr 2013, and we have
had really good results: we got more full-time contributors, we
got lots of good quality contributions, interns had the
opportunity to give a great step in their professional careers and
also it has been an enriching experience for everyone involved
with the internship. More information about OpenStack
participation in Outreachy can be find in <a
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstack.org/">https://wiki.openstack.org/</a><wbr>wiki/Outreachy</a>.<br>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Applications open next
September 22nd, and the deadline for applications is October
27th. </b><a
href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.gnome.org/">https://wiki.gnome.org/</a><wbr>Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch</a></div>
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<div><b><u>TLDR</u></b></div>
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<div>Contributors interested on mentoring in Outreachy, please
feel free to ask any question and ask for further directions
here or in #openstack-opw in Freenode.</div>
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<div>Try to find and propose a task for the next couple of months
for your mentee. The task should be able to be finished on three
months. Add this idea in this wiki <a
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Internship_ideas"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstack">https://wiki.openstack</a>.<wbr>org/wiki/Internship_ideas</a>.</div>
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<div>Please join #openstack-opw as well, to welcome applicants and
help them with their setups.</div>
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<div>Another way to get in touch is through the internships
mailing list, <a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-internships"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.openstack">http://lists.openstack</a>.<wbr>org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/<wbr>openstack-internships</a>.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Being a mentor shouldn't
take a lot of time from your working week. Mentors from previous
rounds organized differently: you can schedule a weekly meeting to
catch up with your mentee latest work, questions and next steps;
some other prefer having a daily short meeting; you choose how to
organize your agenda.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Consider that different
mentees will need different guidance, but we aim to work with
proactive and independent people. This qualities are defined
during the application process, so make sure to participate
actively in this so you make sure you get a mentee you can work
with.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mentors are supposed to act
as a channel for mentees with the rest of the community. You
should be able to help them understand the community workflow
(tools, milestones), introduce them to the team you are working
with (so they also have other people to learn from), help them to
gain confidence and participate of the weekly meetings.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You are not supposed to
teach them the basics (say, we cannot have people that cannot
program in Python), but you should be able to point them in the
right direction with the tools we use in the community and they
should be able to learn at their own pace.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is a full-time
internship, so mentees are expected to work 40 hours per week in
the assigned project.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mentees are supposed to
devote their time on learning about the community, getting
familiar with the tools used to contribute to OpenStack,
understanding the basics of the code base of the project they are
working on and finishing the assigned task before the internship
ends. They are also encouraged to help with bug triaging, bug
fixing and code reviewing. All this should be shared in a personal
blog mentees have to set up when they start with their
internships.</div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks all,</div>
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