Re: [OUTREACHY] toward a proposal?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you for explaining.
>
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 17:23, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>
>> >> > The proposal is to implement the same result hiding all the plumbing
>> >> > details, i.e.,
>> >> >
>> >> >   guix git log --oneline | grep msmtp
>
>> On the Outreachy website you need to get an account in order to request
>> to become a (co-)mentor.  The “community managers” (I think this
>> includes me) then approve that.
>
> Do you think the proposal is a good one for an Outreachy project?

Yes!  I suggested on IRC that we should do the IPFS project as part of
Outreachy to encourage implementation of the missing pieces.

>> At this point you can write the proposal on the Outreachy website.  This
>> will again need to be approved in the end.  We need to have a written
>> proposal in the Outreachy system before the next round begins.
>> Outreachy is a bit stricter in that regard than GSoC where it’s
>> sufficient to have a vague project idea on some website.  This is
>> generally a good thing, because it facilitates more successful projects
>> with fewer sub-projects that nobody ever thought through (which is a bad
>> thing to discover one third into the internship).
>
> Is this again approvement done by the "community managers" or by another 
> board?

Yes.  The idea is that there will be a large number of proposals but
only enough funding for one or two interns.  IIRC internship candidates
then pick a project they’d like to work on and eventually we decide
together with the mentors whom to accept for the internships.  So it
could be that there will only be one suitable internship candidate who
picked another project — in that case the IPFS project would not go
forward as an Outreachy internship.  If we’re lucky, though, we’ll get
enough suitable candidates so that all proposed projects can go forward.

-- 
Ricardo