This sounds great to me as well!

Thank you for your willingness to take this on.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:59 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:19 PM Stefan van der Walt <stef...@berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> The team at BIDS would like to take on an intern from Outreachy
>> (https://www.outreachy.org), as part of our effort to grow the NumPy
>> developer community.
>>
>> The internship is similar to a GSoC, except that we will pay their
>> salary, as well as do the mentoring.  We wanted to check in beforehand
>> to ensure that everyone is comfortable with us doing this on behalf of
>> the NumPy community.
>>
>> Your thoughts and recommendations are welcome!
>>
>
> Sounds like a great idea to me!
>
> Unlike for GSoC, you can look for a good candidate first and see what
> their interests are - could work better, GSoC like ideas have proven to be
> pretty hard to come by for NumPy. And arguably tackling different smaller
> tasks could be more educational.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
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