Absolutely.! I'd love to help to come up with some ideas and help if there is someone who would like to step up!
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:00 PM Kaxil Naik <kaxiln...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bumping this thread again, the deadline is now 29 September, so please let > us know if someone is willing to mentor. > > Me & Jarek would definitely be happy to help wherever we can. > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 1:47 PM Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> > wrote: > >> Just to reiterate what Kaxil wrote - there were some many good things >> about the internships we had! >> >> Happy to help and I can even co-mentor a project or two with someone >> (co-mentoring worked great!) >> >> J. >> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 1:43 PM Kaxil Naik <kaxiln...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding the email from Matt, secretary of ASF: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> The ASF is participating again in Outreachy, a program organized by >>> the Software Freedom Conservancy for mentoring people who are >>> under-represented in technology with internships working on open >>> source software doing software development, documentation writing, >>> data science work, design work, and other related tasks. Volunteers >>> from these OSS communities sign up to mentor these interns by >>> submitting project proposals [0][1][2]. For Apache, PMC members are >>> all welcome to apply; others who wish to mentor for a PMC should seek >>> lazy consensus from the specific PMC for that project to make sure the >>> PMC has no objection to that individual mentoring for them. Mentors >>> will also need to read and sign Outreachy's mentor agreement [3]. We >>> have funding secured for at least six interns, but if we end up with >>> more strong applicants than that, Outreachy sometimes allows >>> additional interns from their general funding. >>> >>> *Important dates*: >>> >>> 24 Sep 2020: ***last day to submit project proposals*** >>> 01 Oct 2020: contribution period begins for applicants >>> 31 Oct 2020: contribution period ends >>> ?? Nov 2020: intern selections >>> 23 Nov 2020: interns announced >>> 01 Dec 2020: internship begins >>> 02 Mar 2020: internship ends >>> >>> [0]: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/ >>> [1]: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ >>> [2]: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project >>> [3]: >>> https://github.com/outreachy/website/blob/master/docs/mentor-agreement.md >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:40 PM Kaxil Naik <kaxiln...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The deadline for the proposal submission is *24 September*. So please >>>> let me know if anyone is interested or if you'll have any questions. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 12:36 PM Kaxil Naik <kaxiln...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Apache Software Foundation has participated in the next round of >>>>> Outreachy Internships (https://www.outreachy.org/). In the last round >>>>> (May-Aug 2020), Apache Airflow submitted the project proposals for the >>>>> Building the new Airflow API where Omair <https://github.com/OmairK> >>>>> and Ephraim <https://github.com/ephraimbuddy> were selected for the >>>>> internship under 2 mentors: Jarek and me along with super useful guidance >>>>> from Kamil. >>>>> >>>>> Blogpost from them about their internship: >>>>> - >>>>> https://airflow.apache.org/blog/experience-with-airflow-as-an-outreachy-intern/ >>>>> - https://airflow.apache.org/blog/apache-airflow-for-newcomers/ >>>>> - >>>>> https://airflow.apache.org/blog/implementing-stable-api-for-apache-airflow/ >>>>> >>>>> Katia Rojas from ASF has asked us if we (Airflow committers) are >>>>> willing to submit proposals for this round. I think this is a really nice >>>>> opportunity since we need good firepower for Airflow 2.0 too. Is anyone >>>>> willing to be a mentor (co-mentoring is fine too -- worked out well last >>>>> time with me & Jarek) from the existing Airflow committers?. >>>>> >>>>> Outreachy has really great guidelines around how the internship would >>>>> work and sends out a newsletter every week with the goals and assignment >>>>> (on a higher level) for that week. >>>>> >>>>> Jarek & I would definitely be willing to help the new mentors with >>>>> filling the proposals and guidelines in general if someone is interested. >>>>> >>>>> Please let me know if anyone is interested in mentoring and sending >>>>> out proposals. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Kaxil >>>>> >>>>> >> >> -- >> >> Jarek Potiuk >> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer >> >> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> >> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/> >> >> -- Jarek Potiuk Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
