On 28 Jun 2019, at 14:31, Patricia Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I think we both would agree that non-code contributors are essential to our >>> projects and that we need to welcome them with bigger arms, but our >>> language sometimes still lags behind. >> Absolutely essential. And, in the context of this puzzle, also an area where >> we have more room to hire assistance if that serves our communities primary >> goal. >> Dw. > > For interns, it is important that they have the opportunity to do work that > aligns with their career goal. That means someone who will be applying for a > technical writer job should be doing documentation. Someone who will be > applying for programming jobs should be coding... > > My reasoning is that open source is one of the ways of getting past the > need-experience-to-get-experience problem.
Very much agreed. But these are all areas outside of the value companies such as Outreachy can deliver with regard to double blind selection, payment, travel-reimbursment, insurances and the myriad of such tasks. Which are far away from code. So we have three sets of things -- getting people in; smooth the path for direct funders if they want to support those people and get the services needed to fill the pipeline with people & then all the fulfilment work. Dw.
