The long awaited vote! With a request: Those voting +1, please consider also saying what kind of help you'd like to provide the effort with. Even bringing the message to your respective communities will be helpful. Gris, what other tasks need to be done, that people could volunteer for?
Here's my +1. I would be willing to help keep the conversation productive and moving forward here on this list, and to spread the message. If the vote passes, we'll send the following notice to the board. Best Regards, Myrle ----------------- Subject: [NOTICE] D&I intends to coordinate an Outreachy intern program. Background: D&I wishes to perform UX research on the experience of members of underrepresented groups as they get started with our communities. Internships via Outreachy provide us with an excellent opportunity to do so. A sponsor has offered to provide stipends via Outreachy which will cover 3 interns. D&I plans to provide the following support: * Advertise this opportunity to projects and seek mentors & proposals. * Manage the project submission process to Outreachy, including filtering out unsuitable project proposals, and, if necessary, making a final selection of intern-project pairs. * Ask interns for feedback on their experiences at various times throughout the internship. * Provide appropriate and useful feedback to the Foundation and to the projects about opportunities to improve how welcoming we are, and what we can improve on. * Use this as an opportunity to increase awareness and acceptance of the ASF in communities which we are currently not reaching as well as we would like. If Outreachy receives funding for more than 3 interns for the ASF, we will facilitate the placement of such additional interns with Apache projects, but we plan to keep the initial rounds of this project relatively small for learning purposes. We intend to measure the success of this program in the following ways: * In a separate effort we will be working on and administering a survey at regular intervals. * We will ask participating projects to provide feedback on the program and on our resulting documentation. ----------------- The road ahead on this proposal is as follows (** indicates where we are now): * Start a [DISCUSS] thread. * Allow the discussion to run as long as *new* points are being made. ** Start a [VOTE] thread to run for 72 hours. * Submit a [NOTICE] to the board. * Wait 72 hours for potential board objections. * Get to work.
