A colleague at day job is an Outreachy organizer. My understanding was that she had joined the diversity list for this reason. Let me see if they are having issues or are simply waiting for a moment at which they can be productive
________________________________ From: Sam Ruby <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2019 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Representational intern experience On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 1:56 PM Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > And finally: > How does this, fundamentally, differ from the ASF simply hiring > interns from under-represented populations and having them work > on Whimsy (or whatever)? This is basically what we are doing, > just using Outreachy as a sort of main contractor to do so. I just used the Contact Outreachy form[1] to send the following request: - - - The Apache Software Foundation is considering becoming a sponsor and/or volunteering a number of mentors. During the discussion, the following question was raised: "How does this, fundamentally, differ from the ASF simply hiring interns from under-represented populations and having them work on Whimsy (or whatever)? This is basically what we are doing, just using Outreachy as a sort of main contractor to do so." This is on the public [email protected] mailing list: https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apache.org%2Fthread.html%2Fb5af718fcb8d75a98fbd9ff378f0236050cd80ffb4d4f314d87106b3%40%253Cdev.diversity.apache.org%253E&data=02%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7C85ec81e4d744485a9e0608d6f67b9104%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636967407913535319&sdata=eF1QUuBiyEhBHKoRW6n0cfsJh3UeDK5fUxNTqYPvH0Y%3D&reserved=0 Would it be possible for an Outreachy Organizer to join this list and answer a few questions people might have? - Sam Ruby - - - - Sam Ruby [1] https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.outreachy.org%2Fcontact%2Forganizers%2F&data=02%7C01%7CRoss.Gardler%40microsoft.com%7C85ec81e4d744485a9e0608d6f67b9104%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636967407913535319&sdata=sgBfBRjyM%2BFYVBmQyMIUZyV7OfwtVRmJcJRAiMaA3YI%3D&reserved=0
