[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Project ideas for Outreach Project for Women

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

I just wanted to let everyone know that I added three potential coding 
projects to the OPW wiki page 
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opw. The first two came from 
discussions with a few other people: 1) Improvements to the self-check 
interface, including moving the interface to AngularJS and 2) a 
continuation of our responsive design work. The third, Awesome Box 
integration, was something I added today as I was remembering the great 
keynote we had at the last Evergreen conference.

I think these projects should be doable for a developer new to Evergreen 
to accomplish in the time allotted (December 9 to March 9). However, I'm 
not a developer, so if anyone with more expertise thinks these are 
unreasonable, please let me know.

There are two people who have volunteered to be mentors for the 
responsive design project, but we would need mentors for the other 
projects to include them on the final list. My preference is to have two 
co-mentors for a project to help minimize the per-mentor time 
commitment. If you are interested in mentoring either of these projects, 
feel free to add your name to the wiki. We need to let the OPW folks 
know our final decision by the end of the week, so I'm hoping volunteers 
can put their names forward by Friday morning.

If there are other coding projects that you think might be good for this 
program, feel free to add them to the wiki. As far as criteria for what 
might make a good project, OPW made the following recommendations in the 
'Defining a Project" section of the mentors page:

> The project should consist of manageable and relevant tasks that can 
> be incorporated into the project throughout the internship period. 
> Stand-alone projects proposed by an applicant are not suitable at all 
> for people who are not established contributors. Please try to avoid 
> situations when participants work on features that are not yet 
> designed or agreed-upon, have too many moving parts, and would only 
> land in the main code-base after the internship is over as a best-case 
> scenario. This rarely works out. Instead, look for agreed-upon 
> manageable bugs and small features that have a shared theme and would 
> allow the participant to feel the satisfaction of landing her changes 
> throughout the internship.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

Kathy

Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
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On 8/25/2014 12:49 AM, Kathy Lussier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please excuse the cross-postings.
>
> At its meeting last week, the Executive Oversight Board discussed the 
> possibility of participating in the GNOME Outreach Project for Women - 
> http://gnome.org/opw/. The goal of OPW is to increase the 
> participation of women in FOSS projects by connecting interns with 
> communities that need help for specific projects.
>
> It is similar to the Google Summer of Code program in which Evergreen 
> has previously participated, but the internships provided through this 
> program can extend beyond coding. Interns could also work on user 
> experience design, graphic design, documentation, web development, 
> marketing, translation, or any other task that would help sustain the 
> project.  The EOB agreed to put forth the funds to cover the intern's 
> stipend if, as a community, we could come up with some strong project 
> ideas that will help the community and mentors willing to commit their 
> time to the project
>
> I have started a page at http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=opw 
> where we can start collecting potential project ideas. I had a couple 
> of doc ideas that I have already added to the list. If you can think 
> of anything that you think would be a worthwhile project, feel free to 
> add it to the page.
>
> Please remember, though, that the projects need to be something that 
> serve as an entry point for somebody who is entirely new to Evergreen. 
> In talking about how to define a project, OPW suggests starting  with 
> smaller tasks (i.e. bugs) with a shared them and progressing over time 
> to more complex tasks (i.e. features). They also ask that we select 
> projects where the intern is likely to see their contributions 
> incorporated in the project before the internship is over.
>
> Also, we need to make sure we have committed mentors on any project 
> that is ultimately posted. The next OPW round starts September 8 when 
> the names of participating organizations are released. The application 
> deadline is October 22. During that application period, mentors may 
> need to commit as much as 10 hours per week on the program since 
> you'll be working with multiple potential applicants. I expect that it 
> wouldn't be 10 hours per week for the entire application period, but 
> that it will become more demanding as the application deadline 
> approaches.
>
> The internship dates then run from December 9 to March 9, during which 
> time you may need to spend up to five hours per week working with the 
> intern. Due to the time commitment, I think we should shoot for two 
> mentors on each project so that the commitment does not fall on just 
> one person.
>
> There is more information for potential mentors at 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/Admin/InfoForMentors.
>
> We need to let OPW know by September 8 if we plan on participating, so 
> we have about two weeks to see if we can pull together some strong 
> projects. However, I think this is doable if we have some willing 
> volunteers and good project ideas.
>
> Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
>
> Kathy
>
>

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