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Internships, Outreachy, GSoC et al
Motivation
- prevent Guix becoming a niche project
- attracting new people, increase audience...
Internships
- GSoC isn't financally attractive for students as in the past
- doing our own summer of code -> funding is available
- successes of the past are a bit forgotten -> some where extremly successful
- GNU project no longer an umbrella organization -> we need to apply for ourself
- organizations can apply for GSoC 2023 until 2023-02-07 -> we don't do it this year
Outreachy
- winter 2023/24
- problem: Outreachy doesn't accept funding by FSF (RMS story)
- need to find a way to do it via Guix Europe -> Andreas could help
- we need mentors
- we need projects
- coordinator for overall organizational stuff
Ideas
- have more than one internship at the same time -> student review code of each other
- dedicated IRC channels for intership as done in the past
- https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2021
- having more then one mentor for a student
- paying the mentor (GSoC gives 500$ per mentor)
- project should be "small" enough to upstream it during the internship time period
How to make it resilient?
- have post-internship "mentor ship"
- offer some "gift" in the aftermath -> e.g. 1 year of a small server for running Guix System
- transparently communicate what's going on to the Guix community
Action plan
- contacting Google (Gabor)
- contacting Outreachy (Gabor)
- arrangement with Outreachy about the funding (Gabor, Andreas)
- check requirements of GSoC (Gabor)
- process description (Gabor)
- start communication on the mailing list and IRC
- define fall back contacts