On 9/18/2019 10:09 AM, Samuel de Medeiros Queiroz wrote:
Hi everyone!
Outreachy <https://www.outreachy.org/> helps people from underrepresented groups get involved in free and open source software by matching interns with established mentors in the upstream communities.
OpenStack is a participating organization in the Outreachy Dec 2019 to Mar 2020 round. If you're interested to be a mentor, please register as a mentor in the Outreachy website and publish your project ideas.
According to this round's schedule <https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/#outreachy-schedule>, the initial application is due next week:
* *Sept. 24, 2019 at 4pm UTC Initial application deadline * * *Nov. 5, 2019 at 4pm UTC Final application deadline*
It is important to get projects submitted *as soon as possible* so that applicants can sign up before the *Sept. 24 deadline*.
Once signed up, they will have between *Oct. 1, 2019 to Nov. 5, 2019 to contribute to the projects*.
If you have any questions about becoming a mentor or want to sponsor an intern, please contact me (samueldmq@gmail.com <mailto:samueldmq@gmail.com>) or Mahati Chamarthy (mahati.chamarthy@gmail.com <mailto:mahati.chamarthy@gmail.com>).
Thank you, Samuel de Medeiros Queiroz
For anyone that was paying attention to the unified CLI gaps closure thread before I had proposed a mentoring project for some US universities, the abstract is here [1]. The project was not accepted for whatever reason (it's not clear if there was not enough interest or not enough people with the proper skills), but if anyone is interested in picking that up for Outreachy I think it would still be useful for the community (devs, users and operators) and a mentee working on it to get experience hacking on an open source project. That said I don't think I'll have the time to dedicate to that now but could help as a backup/side mentor if someone else is interested in taking the primary mentoring duty. As for the number of mentees listed on that abstract that could be 1 or 2, the 2-5 range was just something that specific program was suggesting. Otherwise even if you have interns or new developers at your company and you'd like to get their feet wet working upstream on OpenStack this is a good way to do that as well. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Punt4597VtAndhkwDbG-XrfBQUcXJE-Jmzg2vMIW... -- Thanks, Matt