Kevin, great thought to put this to press. I also recommend adding in the Board Report with an ask for a recommendation letter from the Board of ASF, Delaware. This will truly help get the candidate a job.
Thanks On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 20.01, Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on the way the board operates and pre-approves reports from > projects, unless this was something with an ask for the board to do > something, I don't think it would achieve anything. What I would suggest > instead is emailing this to press at Apache.org. it's a great human > interest story and perhaps something that Sally can make some suggestions > about. > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 09:29 Ed Cable <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Awasum, >> >> It would be good and appropriate to note what Ankit has referenced above. >> Now that the contributors have safely made it out of Afghanistan, they and >> Open Collective have been able to shed more light on the efforts to assist >> them in this blog post: >> >> >> https://blog.opencollective.com/helping-open-source-contributors-escape-afghanistan/ >> >> The campaign was organized by Lukasz Gornicki and Fran Méndez and was >> really a great story for how an open source community can come together to >> assist individuals in need. I was able to help indirectly promote it to >> individual ASF and Apache Fineract community members who were able to >> assist in a very small manner in making donations. Words can't express how >> much Lukasz and Fran really did to literally help the contributors escape - >> it was a harrowing journey and they were actively in touch at each step of >> the way to help the contributors get to their destination. >> >> Ankit is right in that our Fineract contributor (who is named in the blog >> post) is an exceptionally talented mobile developer (including being an >> Apache Fineract mentor for this years' GSOC) who is in need of support in >> helping to get a job as his previous placement was disrupted because of the >> crisis in Afghanistan. >> >> Awasum, please include what you feel would be appropriate from the blog >> above and if you would like to include a link to the resume of the >> contributor, I can share that as well. >> >> Ed >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 1:57 AM Muellners ApS <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> During this quarter, this community stood besides and supported the >>> young talented human lives to escape from Afghanistan when the government >>> collapsed, with fund raising by open source members elsewhere and visa >>> application support by Denmark based Non for Profit Muellners Foundation, >>> to which I am an advisor also. >>> >>> Please help me decide whether we should add this detail in this report >>> or not. The PMC should take privacy consent from the contributor or >>> individuals or Foundation mentioned, whose information is shared on the >>> report. >>> >>> I believe this can help the young community member to gain recognition & >>> perhaps a job. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 09.38, Benura Abeywardena <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Ed ! >>>> >>>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, 09:43 Ed Cable, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I added a few notes to the report. >>>>> >>>>> Ed >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:45 PM Benura Abeywardena <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks @awasum >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 2:55 AM Awasum Yannick <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Permission Granted to benuraab. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:06 PM Benura Abeywardena < >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It's 'benuraab'. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 2:21 AM Awasum Yannick <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Yes. You can add changes to the doc but make sure you don't delete >>>>>>>>> any information. What is your Confluence ID so that I give you >>>>>>>>> permission >>>>>>>>> to that document? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 9:26 PM Benura Abeywardena < >>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hi Awasum, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> As a former GSOC intern, are we allowed to add contributions to >>>>>>>>>> the report? If so, shall I add contributions under the >>>>>>>>>> "Contributions" >>>>>>>>>> section? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks & Regards, >>>>>>>>>> Benura >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 1:43 AM Awasum Yannick <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I am making final edits and additions to the board report. The >>>>>>>>>>> deadline is today but I am going to wait for a day and submit the >>>>>>>>>>> report >>>>>>>>>>> tomorrow evening as the board meeting will take place in 7 days >>>>>>>>>>> time. The >>>>>>>>>>> board will hopefully still have time to review them before the >>>>>>>>>>> meeting >>>>>>>>>>> proper. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 8:15 PM Awasum Yannick <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> We have started writing the Fineract Board report for October >>>>>>>>>>>> 2021. You are all invited to contribute here: >>>>>>>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/2021-10+October+Report >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> GSoC Interns and Mentors, you can contribute by summarizing >>>>>>>>>>>> your projects. Ed, would you like to help again here? >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Javier, James and others, would you like to write something >>>>>>>>>>>> about ApacheCon? 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