We've had a number of discussions on a number of lists. This email is
part one of three of my attempts to untangle the discussions.
Early indications are that the committee is interested in proposing a
pilot Outreachy program (disagree? comment on this thread: [1]), and
that the board will require that the initial pilot be limited to
projects that support the ASF's mission and are not competitive products
in their own right. So things like Gump and Whimsy and Infrastructure
and ComDev and Labs and perhaps Incubator. (disagree? comment on this
thread [2]). Another potential constraint is to limit the budget
approval to the amount of targeted donations received.
Does the committee view those constraints as workable? And if so, does
the committee have ideas on projects.
One project proposed in whimsy incubator support for developing and
reviewing incubator reports (modeled loosely as an open to all
committers version of the board agenda tool). Does the committee view
this as a reasonable project given the constraints described above?
Are there other proposals?
The scope of this thread is limited to presuming that there is interest
in an Outreachy pilot and that the eventual board constraints are as
described above. Everything else is out of scope for this thread, and
should be pursued in a separate thread.
- Sam Ruby
[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a02217bcc050fe713d33fe73fa14503c173db92a1e1a6c0b174a338c@%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2b1a92dbbd6b59b430dfd071907d8dc942d5bab6ebb4b318c43a1a5e@%3Cboard.apache.org%3E
