+1 On Sat 6. Jul 2019 at 00:24, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > > > 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. > > >
