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On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 2:57 PM Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
