[Pki-clean-room-devel] [Outreachy] application deadline Monday, 17 October

[Daniel Pocock]

The Outreachy application deadline is Monday, 17 October at 19:00 UTC

Anybody interested in mentoring, at this stage, the best thing to do is
simply promote the program and help answer questions on the mailing
lists.  After the application deadline, we can see the number of
applicants and discuss how to proceed.

Every potential intern needs to register in the GNOME registration
system before the deadline:
https://outreachy.gnome.org

Interns: don't wait for the last minute, servers often crash in the hour
before an important deadline.

In the application, it asks you to propose a timeline for your work.
You can simply cut and paste the following:

month 1: developing helper scripts to help work in the clean room
month 2: improving boot/startup process
month 3: begin developing a user interface

Every applicant needs to make a small contribution to a project before
the deadline.  Simply try to build the clean room live image, run it and
make some small improvement and share it on this mailing list.  I've
already given tasks to two candidates, any other candidates who read
this and haven't spoken to me are welcome to make any other small change
or improvement of your own initiative.

For any general questions about Outreachy and Debian terms and
conditions, please ask in the debian-outreach mailing list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-outreach/
or the IRC channel #debian-outreach on the OFTC network

Please ask any question about the topic itself on this pki-clean-room
mailing list

I'd like to emphasize that the Outreachy program has significantly less
funding than the GSoC program and far fewer interns are selected.
Anybody who does submit an Outreachy application can be considered for
GSoC 2017 as well and we have had many cases where applications are not
accepted in Outreachy but were subsequently successful in applying for
GSoC.  Many of the details from the Outreachy application can be
cut-and-pasted for a GSoC application too so please keep a copy of
everything you put in the application.  Please make sure you tell us if
you also want to apply for GSoC 2017.

If you are not sure what to include in your application, please see the
suggestions I provided to GSoC students this year:
https://wiki.debian.org/GSoC/StudentWikiPages
but submit your details through the Outreachy web site, not the Debian wiki.

Regards,

Daniel