Submit an Outreachy Intern Project Proposal (December 2022 - March 2023)
Mentors need to read:
- Mentor FAQ
- Outreachy mentor duties, including the 5 hour a week time commitment.
- Tips on what makes a good project
- The Outreachy mentor contract, which you as an individual will be required to sign
Possible projects
- something from the applications team
- something from the anti-censorship team
- jeremy's project
For each project we will need:
Project short title
Short title for this internship project proposal. This should be 100 characters or less, starting with a verb like "Create", "Improve", "Extend", "Survey", "Document", etc. Assume the applicant has never heard of your technology before and keep it simple. The short title will be used in your project page URL, so keep it short.
Description of the internship project.
Please do not place educational restrictions (such as needing a degree) on this project. Outreachy applicants are judged on their demonstrated skills, not on their educational background. If your project requires knowledge that would normally be learned during a degree, your project contribution tasks should test applicants for that knowledge.
You should exclude applicant skills and communication channels. Those will be added in the next step.
You should also exclude discussion of internship tasks, internship benefits, repository URLs, issue tracker URLs, newcomer tags, or application period contribution tasks. Those are collected in the optional fields below.
Minimum system requirements
What are the minimum computer requirements to contribute to this project during the application period? Examples: Operating system, CPU, memory, and hard drive space.
Many Outreachy applicants have older laptops. Many of them are working with ten year old systems (e.g. 1.6 GHz dual core with 2 GB of RAM). Please evaluate whether your project could better support contributors with older systems.
How can applicants make a contribution to your project?
Instructions for how applicants can make contributions during the Outreachy application period.
Make sure to include links to getting started tutorials or documentation, how applicants can find contribution tasks on your project website or issue tracker, who they should ask for tasks, and everything they need to know to get started.
Repository
(Optional) URL for your team's repository or contribution mechanism
Issue tracker
(Optional) URL for your team's issue tracker
Newcomer issue tag
(Optional) What tag is used for newcomer-friendly issues for your team or for this internship project? Please use a tag and not a URL.
Intern tasks
(Optional) Description of possible internship tasks. What smaller tasks will they start on? What is the main task or tasks for the internship? Do you have any optional stretch goals?
Intern benefits
(Optional) How will the intern benefit from working with your team on this project? Imagine you're pitching this internship to a promising candidate. What would you say to convince them to apply? For example, what technical and non-technical skills will they learn from working on this project? How will this help them further their career in open source?
Community benefits
(Optional) How will this internship project benefit the FOSS community that is funding it?
Unapproved license description
(Optional) If this Outreachy internship project will be released under a license that is not an OSI-approved and FSF-approved license OR a Creative Commons license, please provide a description and links to the non-free licenses.
Mentor profile
Project skills
Project communication channels