@Alex, very glad you brought this up. Naomi and I will be sending a more detailed message about the Outreachy initiative. We will address your question there.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 9:24 AM Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, Outreachy's own site says that Outreachy/SFC pays the interns [1]. > See the "Commonly Asked Questions". > > That said, I'm still not clear how to work with Outreachy if my project > were to have funding and a mentor, so hopefully the output of this effort > will be to make a step-by-step guide for how ASF projects can work with > Outreachy. > > HTH, > -Alex > > [1] https://www.outreachy.org/sponsor/ > > On 6/19/19, 11:50 PM, "Myrle Krantz" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:42 PM Joan Touzet <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > This is all moot anyway. The Board has denied the funding for > Outreachy. > > Let's drop the topic, nothing good will come from it. > > > > I'd like to refine the above statement because it could be > misunderstood. > The board didn't vote on funding for Outreachy at all. The discussion > could not be completed in the time available. We removed this item > from > the budget, so that we could bypass the discussion and pass the budget. > Repeat: no vote (neither formal nor informal) was taken on Outreachy > funding, and certainly no negative result to such a vote. > > Nonetheless, I believe that the form in which a sponsor pays Outreachy > directly, rather than through the ASF, helps us in several ways, and > I'd > hope that we pursue that. > > The committee will continue to work on the secondary funding option, > > which has been proposed in parallel by about 20 people. ;) > > > > Actually, credit where credit is due: Greg proposed it first. Which > is no > surprise because he was instrumental in introducing GSoC as well. : o) > > : o), > Myrle > > >
