There's also this thing (see email from Apache pasted below): https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/ https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
"Interns work remotely with mentors from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities on projects ranging from programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and graphical design, to data science." The Apache email says: "We have funding secured for at least six interns" Perhaps we could recruit a single design-oriented intern who would like to revamp the whole suite of NetBeans icons... -- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Matt Sicker <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 2:00 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [ANN] Apache accepted to Outreachy; now seeking mentors and project proposals Greetings, The ASF is participating again in Outreachy, a program organized by the Software Freedom Conservancy for mentoring people who are under-represented in technology with internships working on open source software doing software development, documentation writing, data science work, design work, and other related tasks. Volunteers from these OSS communities sign up to mentor these interns by submitting project proposals [0][1][2]. For Apache, PMC members are all welcome to apply; others who wish to mentor for a PMC should seek lazy consensus from the specific PMC for that project to make sure the PMC has no objection to that individual mentoring for them. Mentors will also need to read and sign Outreachy's mentor agreement [3]. We have funding secured for at least six interns, but if we end up with more strong applicants than that, Outreachy sometimes allows additional interns from their general funding. Important dates: 24 Sep 2020: ***last day to submit project proposals*** 01 Oct 2020: contribution period begins for applicants 31 Oct 2020: contribution period ends ?? Nov 2020: intern selections 23 Nov 2020: interns announced 01 Dec 2020: internship begins 02 Mar 2020: internship ends [0]: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/apache/ [1]: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/ [2]: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq/#define-a-project [3]: https://github.com/outreachy/website/blob/master/docs/mentor-agreement.md -- Matt Sicker Secretary, Apache Software Foundation VP, Logging Services, ASF -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Holmer <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 4:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Status of converting icons to SVG On 9/9/20 2:02 PM, Matthias Bläsing wrote: > I still fail to see the difference between repetetive work on the code > base working on source code and repetetive work on graphics. > > I worked for a company where the graphics designers were the only ones > using mac OS systems. So did I: I won't repeat the number, but I was told by our systems guys that it cost an outrageous amount of money for a new guy in that department to sit down on his first day of work. > Reasoning was, that their work could only be done on these machines. > They were special somehow and I still don't grasp it. At that time > other OSes could run their software and other OSes could be color > calibrated. > > I see this again: Now graphics designers need "their" software to > work, the one available to all potential contributors is not good > enough. Now graphics designers need to be paid, contrary to other > contributors. > > I will pull out of this discussion - I said what I had to say and it > would be great if other people say what they think. 100% agree. If we need to expand the pool of contributors to people who work in /open source/ design, then let's try and do that. This is Apache, not Adobe. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
