As a student, I'll love to continue work on Fineract projects during the Outreachy internship. It'll be really helpful if we get mentors to assist us.
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 3:44 PM Awasum Yannick <awa...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Do we have committers here willing to scope up project ideas and mentor > during the upcoming Outreachy Session? > > This could be a chance to get some tasks completed especially around > Fineract 1.x. > > I see immediately that our backlog is too large..Maybe we could have an > intern or 2 try to close some of those issues if they are not too complex. > What do you think? > > Thanks. > Awasum > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 5:50 AM Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hello PMCS --a quick reminder that if your project is interested in >> submitting work proposals for Outreachy interships, the deadline is 25 >> February. >> >> Should you need assistance with the application, feel free to contact the >> Apache coordinators at <d...@diversity.apache.org> >> >> Best, >> Sally >> >> - - - >> Vice President Marketing & Publicity >> Vice President Sponsor Relations >> The Apache Software Foundation >> >> Tel +1 617 921 8656 | s...@apache.org >> >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020, at 11:05, Sally Khudairi wrote: >> > Hello Apache PMCs --I hope you're having a great week thus far. >> > >> > The ASF (through our Diversity & Inclusion committee) is a mentoring >> > organization with Outreachy, a program organized by the Software >> > Freedom Conservancy. Outreachy provides paid internships to those who >> > are under-represented in technology, including women, individuals from >> > the African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native >> > American/Alaskan/Hawaiian communities, among others. >> > >> > This year's Outreachy internships will run May-August 2020. Interns >> > will work full-time and remotely with individual mentors from our >> > community (= PMC members). Interns can work on a range of projects, >> > such as programming, documentation, data science, user experience, >> > marketing, graphic design, and more. >> > >> > Several internships are available to Apache Projects: all PMCs are >> > welcome to apply to propose work projects for Outreachy interns. The >> > program works in a similar manner as GSoC, where candidate interns >> > select which project/activity they’d like to work on. The more work >> > projects proposed, the greater your Project's chance of being selected! >> > >> > This is a great chance to give deserving individuals of diverse >> > backgrounds, genders, and ages a chance to contribute to Open Source in >> > many different ways. Helping others helps Apache Projects and our >> > communities. >> > >> > NOTE: The deadline to submit work project proposals to is 25 February >> > 2020 at 4PM UTC. We encourage you to review the Outreachy mentor FAQ as >> > you consider this opportunity >> > https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ >> > >> > Those PMCs ready to apply as mentors may do so directly at >> > https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/ >> > >> > For help crafting your project proposal, please contact the Apache >> > coordinators --Matt Sicker, Awasum Yannick, and Katia Rojas-- at >> > <d...@diversity.apache.org>. >> > >> > To learn more about ASF Diversity & Inclusion, visit >> > https://diversity.apache.org/ >> > To learn more about Outreachy, visit https://www.outreachy.org/ >> > >> > We appreciate your interest and look forward to hearing from you. >> > >> > On behalf of ASF Diversity & Inclusion, >> > Sally >> > >> > - - - >> > Vice President Marketing & Publicity >> > Vice President Sponsor Relations >> > The Apache Software Foundation >> > >> > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | s...@apache.org >> >
