Hi James,
I'd like to emphasize the point (so that non-devs are aware) that outreach
programs are generally more work for a mentor than "just implement the
feature yourself" would be. I.e. The mentors generally have to help onboard
the newcomer and get their tools setup properly, and then understand the
feature that is being built better than the newcomer does, and other
additional tasks.
The tangential outcomes can be hugely beneficial -- training a new
community member, helping identify weaknesses in our existing docs, often
finding other new bugs which the mentee will describe very clearly, helping
the mentor understand new areas, etc -- but outreach programs are
definitely not a shortcut to getting more wishlist items completed quickly.
They often require more time-resources, not fewer.
The other important aspect for many community wishlist items in particular,
is that they are often "wishlist items" because they are very complicated
(for technical or social reasons) and hence have not been done for many
years. If they were (relatively) simple enough for a newcomer to complete,
they would've already been solved years ago!
Cheers,
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:36 AM Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Yeah, we can! But, we need projects with a clear scope
and two mentors who
are willing to provide guidance to students throughout the summer
(May-August) as they develop their projects. And, this is not necessarily
the case with community wishlist projects that are not in the top 10. In
the past, we have tried to promote the wishlist projects through our
outreach programs but couldn't make any progress.
If any developer is interested in mentoring a project from the wishlist, I
would be happy to chat with them!
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 7:01 PM James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We have a lot of amazing potential projects that
just missed the
selection
criteria for the community wish list in 2019
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Results
Would some of these quality as projects?
James
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:11 PM Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google
Summer
of Code
2019 with 207 open source projects
<https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/02/gsoc-2019-organizations.html
> :)
> And, application period for Outreachy Round 18 started last week.
>
> We have listed a few ideas for projects for both programs on MediaWiki
and
> we are looking for more. Unlike Google Summer
of Code, Outreachy is open
> to
> non-students and non-coders and projects could be around documentation,
> design, translation research, outreach, etc. View current list of ideas:
>
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019
>
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_18
>
> Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round.
Accepted
> candidates will work with mentors from May to
August 2019. If you are
> interested in mentoring a project, create a task on Phabricator and tag
it
> with #outreach-programs-projects and
#Google-Summer-of-Code (2019) or
> #Outreachy (Round 18). You can also choose to mentor for projects
already
on
outreach-programs-projects
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/>
workboard. Remember, every project must have two mentors.
Some helpful resources for you:
* Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of a mentor:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
* View full program timeline:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/
Looking forward to your participation! :)
Cheers,
Srishti, Derick and Pratyush (Wikimedia org admins)
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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