2019-12-06 Outreachy Meeting notes

Onboarding of new Outreachy intern.  

The internship starts: Dec. 3, 2019

• Interns need to schedule regular meetings with mentors.
• Blogging: help unblock if necessary.

• Share the updated friction log template and ask for feedback. Create a task for sharing. 

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qbhrwfy0jN-Ibq6VV2bJOsDL3H1VAay4PcfNs6CwJdM/edit#

• Review mail discussion: First draft of friction log template.

• May want an interactive form for this one day.
• Consider limiting the current scope to mentor/mentee interactions.

Lack of recorded contributions in some projects: We opened a discussion and came up with some theories, see mail discussion: Tooling training for ASF projects.

• possible reasons why:
  • The skill level required in the project is too high and/or
  • the wording of the project is a bit intimidating due to the technical language or unclear goals
  • High system requirements 
• possible solutions:
  • setup cheat sheet + more guided or explained tasks. Include this sheet in the project submission to guide applicants in their initial contributions. we've seen sometimes there is no time to address all queries/questions from applicants, therefore we could include this sheet to help them guide themselves.  
  • we need a more easy-to-start development environment. regarding applicants with less experience. In this case, it is hard to find a solution other than committing enough mentor time, which is hard to find. 
• Examples: how to make the first code line to contribute.

actions: 

1. Make a page: Getting Started At Apache
2. links: Products, signed up for the mailing list, jira, confluence, etc.