Beam Community,
I am new to this community and It has been a great
experience so far. I am especially thankful to Rui Wang for making this
experience smooth and enjoyable. I want others to have the same experience
as well. For that, I suggest Beam community have formal Mentorship program
or at least have an alias for newbies. As this is a virtual team it is not
possible to walk up to someone and ask some basic questions when they are
not busy. I am a bit shy sending an email with simple questions to the same
alias where architecture level discussions are happening and having an
avenue for that will help people like me. I have seen such emails only once
on this alias and no further emails from that user. I also see some jira
issues assigned but not worked, granted there could be many reasons for
that but I am sure more people will benefit from having mentors.
Just to be clear I am suggesting permanent
mentorship program or alias for newbies in this community which is separate
from what is proposed in the email below. If such a thing exists, can you
please point me to it. Some of the activities that can be done under this
are code walkthroughs. It was great that Pablo Estrada organized such an
event once. Some of these may be part of local beam summits but not
everyone is able to attend those. I think facilitating new developers
adoption to the community will make this community strong and more
productive.
Thanks,
Sridhar
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:33 AM Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seeking mentors and proposals. This could be a great opportunity to build
> and diversify Beam's community.
>
> If you are not familiar with Outreachy, you may start by thinking of it as
> "like Google Summer of Code for groups under-represented in tech". You
> mentor someone remotely and Outreachy pays them a stipend to contribute to
> Beam.
>
> Kenn
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Katia Rojas <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:16 AM
> Subject: [ANN] Seeking volunteer mentors from all Apache projects to help
> mentor under-represented contributors
> To: <[email protected]>
>
>
> Hello folks,
>
> The ASF has successfully been accepted as a participating FOSS community
> in the Outreachy Program [1] to work with Outreachy organizers to offer
> remote internships to applicants around the world. With this program, we
> are looking forward to improving inclusion in our communities by
> understanding what are the barriers that underrepresented groups in the
> tech industry have while trying to start their journey.
>
> Outreachy's goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in the
> technology industry. Outreachy interns will work remotely with mentors on
> projects ranging from programming, user experience, documentation,
> illustration and graphic design, to data science. Outreachy interns will
> receive stipends for developing said projects full-time for three months.
>
> Mentors will provide mentoring and project ideas and in return have the
> opportunity to get new participants - most importantly - to identify and
> bring in new committers from underrepresented groups.
>
> If you are an ASF committer and you want to participate with your project,
> we ask you to do the following things by no later than 2019-Sep-17 23:00
> UTC (project list submission are due a week later):
>
> 1. Ensure you can host an Outreachy intern
>
> Understand the commitment to be a mentor [2] [4], we’ll also ask you that
> you connect with the ASF D&I committee to ensure we capture a contribution
> friction log from your interns. If you can fulfill this commitment, then
> move forward to get consensus from your project’s PMC and move to the next
> step.
>
> 2. Register your project with Outreachy
>
> Register your project in the Outreachy website [6]. Please be as specific
> as possible when describing your idea. Include the programming language,
> the tools and skills required, but try not to scare potential students
> away. They are supposed to learn what's required before the program starts.
> Use labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang,
> python, brainfuck, ...) or technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...).
>
> If you want help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache
> coordinators: "Matt Sicker" <[email protected]>,. "Awasum Yannick" <
> [email protected]>,. "Katia Rojas" <[email protected]>.
>
> 3. Curate a list of tasks for your Outreachy project
>
> Add an “outreachy19dec” label to issues related to your project. You
> should include links to search filters listing these issues in your project
> application. It’s also useful to use a “newbie-friendly” label to
> distinguish the starter tasks from the larger or more complex project
> tasks. This will provide tasks for applicants to complete during the
> application process.
>
> If your project doesn't use JIRA (e.g.httpd, ooo), you can use the
> Diversity & Inclusion board to coordinate with your applicants, just use
> the “Outreachy” component.
>
> [4] Contains some additional information (this could be the FAQ page).
>
> P.S.: this email is free to be shared publicly if you want to.
>
> References:
>
> [1] https://www.outreachy.org
>
> [2] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project
>
> [3] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/
>
> [4] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/
>
> [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DI
>
> [6]
> https://www.outreachy.org/december-2019-to-march-2020-internship-round/communities/apache/submit-project/
>
> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
>
>
>
