Open Stack

Hi everyone,

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.

*_What is Outreachy_*
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Outreachy helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open 
source software get involved. Read more in 
https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ <https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/>.

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 
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy>.

*Applications open next September 22nd, and the deadline for 
applications is October 27th. 
*https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch 
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch>

*_TLDR_*
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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.

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 https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Internship_ideas 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Internship_ideas>.

Please join #openstack-opw as well, to welcome applicants and help them 
with their setups.

Another way to get in touch is through the internships mailing list, 
http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-internships <http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-internships>.

*_Mentors_*
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*Time requirements*
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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.

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.

*Tasks*
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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.

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.

*_Mentees_*
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*Time requirements*
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It is a full-time internship, so mentees are expected to work 40 hours 
per week in the assigned project.

*Tasks*
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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.

Thanks all,

Victoria
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