[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: Evergeen in Outreachy?

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

I meant to forward this along yesterday, but I got pulled in another 
direction. Outreachy (new name for the Outreach Project for Women) wants 
to know if we are interested in participating again for the summer.

It would require a quick turnaround time. They had put out a call for 
organizations to participate last month. At the time, we were also 
working on an application for GSoC for this summer. Because the number 
of developers available to mentor GSoC projects was small and our 
project ideas were limited to just two (see 
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:summer_of_coding_ideas#project_ideas), 
it was clear that the community could only support one coding internship 
project this summer. Therefore, I did not follow up on seeing if anyone 
wanted to pursue Outreachy again.

Unfortunately, the Evergreen community was not accepted into GSoC. When 
we received the news, I thought it was too late to participate in 
Outreachy, but it turns out I was wrong. If we wanted to participate, we 
would need funding lined up and a commitment made in about a week. It 
would also end up being a shortened application period for the potential 
interns, which can be particularly problematic for Evergreen since the 
bar is somewhat high to install Evergreen and get a code contribution in 
by the deadline.

Having said that, I do know there were a few women who had shown an 
interest in working on an Evergreen project. I think we heard from two 
who were interested in Awesome Box, as well as another who had a project 
idea of her own that is not on this list. Since I put in some work on 
the GSoC application, I would be available to co-administer the program 
with somebody else.

In addition to needing a volunteer to co-administer with me, we also 
would need somebody to see if they can line up funding over the next 
week. We used community funds for the internship the first time around, 
but I think my proposal at the time was to use community funds to see 
how well it worked and to seek outside funding if we wanted to do it 
again. The total cost of the program is $6,500. I just don't have the 
time right now to do the work that's needed to line up funding.

My personal opinion is that it's a lot of work to do in a short period 
of time. However, the decision really belongs to the community, so I'm 
sending this along to see if there's anyone interested in picking up the 
ball to make the funding happen.

Thanks!
Kathy




-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Evergeen in Outreachy?
Date: 	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:12:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz at redhat.com>
To: 	Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org>
CC: 	outreachy-admins at gnome.org



Hi Kathy,

Apologies for reaching out to you so late in the application process, but I wanted to check in to see whether you wanted to get Evergreen to participate again in Outreachy. We can probably add Evergreen with a late application deadline of April 7. The timeline for the current round is at https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/MayAugust

Warmest regards,
Marina



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