Outreachy-specific terms are defined here: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
Our documentation for mentors and coordinators is here: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/ https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ An "applicant" refers to people who are applying to be an Outreachy intern. An applicant fills out an initial application, and (if the initial application is approved) tries to make a contribution to a project. They record that contribution in the Outreachy website. Then they fill out a final application for each project they want to be considered an intern for. Mentors review the final applications, contributions by those applicants, and then make a decision as to which intern they want to select for the project. If a mentor doesn't have any applicant who they want to accept, they can decide not to pick any intern. By "community" I mean "a loosely held set of free software projects, under an umbrella organization". Mozilla is a community, even though its projects include Firefox, Rust, and other web tools. Debian is a community comprised of different projects; different Debian package maintainers participate as mentors, as well as mentors from Debian-specific tool projects. So ASF would be a "community" under which there were several different ASF member projects. The terminology is further confusing because an Outreachy "project" refers to a specific internship project description. E.g. "Reseach user experience on the ASF website" or "Add foo feature to bar tool". Mentors from ASF member projects can each submit one or more Outreachy projects. Sponsors are not typically involved in finding mentors. That's usually the community coordinator's job. See the list of duties here: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/#coordinator In the case of the ASF, there will need to be one or more community coordinators who find mentors, and review and approve projects. I believe the ASF was proposing to have the diversity committee (in addition to others?) be the community coordinators who review projects based on the ASF GSoC criteria, and additional criteria I've described elsewhere. Sage Sharp Outreachy Organizer On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 10:37 PM Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 7/1/19, 6:01 AM, "Sage Sharp" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sponsors fund the Outreachy general fund or a community. Applicants > pick > which project to work on. That's been explained elsewhere. > > Hi Sage, > > Mainly for my clarification: By "community" you mean a group like the ASF > or other OS Foundations? At Apache we use "community" as the equivalent of > "project". And is the "applicant" the intern? I thought the mentors had > some say in the matching. > > One other question: Does each "community/foundation" need to make some > formal agreement with Outreachy to have its projects find mentors and > hopefully interns? Or do sponsors work directly with projects? > > Thanks, > -Alex > >
