Hi All, The Apache Software Foundation is planning to participate in its first Outreachy round beginning this September 2019. See here <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/dbba6f4fd358737fddcb3da4b78df4f87fe384d59a35469a0d131545@%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E> for details.
Outreachy is similar to GSoC but organized for people from underrepresented communities. See more here <https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/> about the rules. The goal of Outreachy is to improve diversity and inclusion in the Software industry. Outreachy takes place twice a year: 1.) February to August, Coding from May to August. 2.) September to March, coding from November to March I think this program which is new to Apache projects can help us improve our diversity and also help us do some work on our software. The Apache foundation is going in for the next Outreachy round which starts formally in September 2019 for interns and ends in March 2020. I want to hear what you all think about Fineract participating in Outreachy this year. For committers, will you be able to mentor an Intern? If the community likes to go in for this then I am calling on committers who will be interested to mentor interns this upcoming round for Apache Fineract to start putting down their project ideas on wiki. >From the top of my head, Fineract 1.x has some key issues which could be fixed. This include: 1.) Upgrading Fineract 1.x to Spring Boot 2 and updating other dependencies. 2.) Code Quality and Static Code Analysis for Fineract 1.x 3.) Enhancing Unit and Integration tests for Fineract 1.x What other ideas do you think will be good for Outreachy?
