On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 16:17 +0100, Petr Bokoc wrote: > That's my concern as well. Is there anyone here who has experience > with > GSoC? I know Fedora participated before and I'm wondering about how > much > commitment an internship like that requires - how much coaching, > task > tracking, that kind of stuff. Bex, were you involved with that, or > do > you know who was? I've mentored in GNOME for both GSoC and OPW (Outreach Program for Women, the precursor to Outreachy). For OPW, I've mentored docs internships. The time commitment varied quite a bit from person to person. I think what's more important than how much time you spend mentoring is how often that time is spent. You can't just frontload a week with a three-hour meeting and go offline. > I'm also concerned that any tech writer will need to interact with > the > wider community, not just us here in docs - someone needs to give > them > info and preferably do technical reviews as well. We'll need to make > sure any relevant engineering people can (and want to) do that if we > go > forward with this. In case of the install guide I'm worried that the > team is basically all Red Hatters and they'll be too busy doing > their > normal work, but OTOH getting Red Hat engineers to work with us could > be > easier than making sure someone from the community who only > contributes > as a hobby will be available for significant amounts of time... I > dunno. I'm happy to help in whatever way I can, whether that's dealing with the application process, extracting information from engineers' brains, or actually taking on a mentorship role. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ docs mailing list -- docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to docs-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
