Re: Marketing tasks for Outreach Program for Women applicants

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi Bryen,

Thank you for your willingness to be a mentor! Can you please add A11y project to the participating projects on the wiki?

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWomen/OutreachProgram2010#participating-projects

Is the person who expressed interest in being mentored for an A11y project Izabel Valverde? She talked to me about her interest in it.

It's possible that you'll be contacted by other candidates if the information about the project is on the wiki. Would that be ok with you? We'd love to have both A11y marketing and coding be among the participating projects, so that women can learn about them!

As a mentor you would need to:
1) point the interested candidates to the relevant information and provide them with a simple task that they can accomplish by October 25, which is the application deadline
2) discuss the possible work with the candidates, so that they will have an idea about what aspects of A11y they'll work on during their internship. This doesn't need to be a stand-alone project, but rather work that they will do as part of the team. Starting with smaller tasks and progressing to larger ones.
3) participate in deciding who to accept
4) support and guide the participant accepted for your project during the internship
5) let us know how she is doing with her work at a mid-way point and in the end

Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions any time!

Thanks,
Marina

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stormy Peters" <stormy gnome org>
To: suserocks bryen com, women-outreach gnome org
Cc: marketing-list gnome org
Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 10:54:47 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Marketing tasks for Outreach Program for Women applicants


Hi Bryen, 


It's the Outreach Program for Women and they (i.e. Marina ;) are the ones running it so I've cc'ed that list here. 


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Bryen Yunashko < suserocks bryen com > wrote: 

I was notified yesterday there was some interest in being mentored for 
the GNOME-A11y marketing stuff and I need to add the possible projects 
we can do in the time-frame of this internship. 



That's awesome! 


I'm unclear at this point from reading that link, what the Program wants 
to see from mentors. E.g., do we need to send periodic reports on the 
progress of our interns, do we provide a final report, etc. Mainly, 
what are all the administrative tasks of the mentor. 



I believe the main responsibility of the mentor is making sure the intern has everything they need. So the most time consuming part will be evaluating applications, selecting a student, helping them get started, finding a project that works for them, helping them get connected to the right people, making sure they have what they need to be productive, etc. 


>From an administrative side, you will be responsible for reporting on how the student is doing. I think that will officially happen twice: once half way through and once at the end. 


Stormy 
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