I hereby announce my intent to offer online tutoring with the goal of helping reduce democraphic imbalances in the GCC development community.
My planned focus is the implementation, in GCC, of the ISA extensions to OpenPOWER in the upcoming Libre-SOC processor in GCC, but I may also cover some neurodiversity, to try and make some of my quirks less difficult to tolerate, and Free Software philosophy/ethics/copyleft, because I can't help :-) Some of the philosophy tutoring may actually be delivered by the Chief GNUisance himself, in occasional online group meetings. (He was very receptive and supportive to the whole plan, as I hoped and expected :-) I invite other GCC contributors to join me in offering tutoring to reduce demographic imbalances in our development community. Other tutors are free to focus their efforts in other back-ends/targets, front-ends, middle-end passes, IRs, general bug-fixing, or even accept tutoring applicant-submitted proposals. I invite contributors to other GNU subprojects to make similar offers in their respective subprojects, too. Now, one clarification: applicants need not fit in any specific demographic; the goal is not to exclude any applicants but, if demand is higher than I (we?) can offer, all else being equal, preference would be given to candidates that make stronger cases of demographic balancing. (how to tell?) My plan is to invite candidates to file applications about their interest in participating in the development of the subproject, their personal background, and their diverse strengths and demographic balance improvements they wish to bring to the subproject. Would anyone else like to help me turn this into more concrete plans, a formal call for candidates, web page, etc? Would anyone else be willing to participate as mentor? -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Vim, Vi, Voltei pro Emacs -- GNUlius Caesar
