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Re: Updating outreach-team policy related to internship-like programs



On Tue, 2022-03-22 at 20:03 +0530, Abhijith PA wrote:

>    Policy says interns must have individual wiki page with their 
>    contact details and then a wiki page for the project with mentor 
>    and mentors are encouraged to create another wiki page with their 
>    details.
>    
> Isn't better to combine all three in a single wiki page under their 
> project name ?

This part of the policy appears optimised for the situation where both
the intern and the mentor are currently or are intending to be ongoing
Debian contributors; having their contact details on one page means
less places to update when those details change.

This is the way things are done on the Debian wiki for contributors who
haven't come to Debian through the outreach programs.

> Please also suggest points that you want to remove or add.

The existing policies all look reasonable to me.

I would also like to see some sort of final announcement from the
intern and or mentor to the audience for the work about the impact of
their changes on that audience and perhaps directly to the wider Debian
community, when that is appropriate. These could be summarised in a
bits.debian.org post once the outreach program season has concluded.

This is an increase in the amount of work to do, but it does help the
intern communicate the value of their work to their audience, which
means the audience are more likely to know about their work and
therefore use it where they might not have done that otherwise.

Perhaps this could be come an optional policy to start with and
tested for the current or next round of internships.

For example:

Work on ci.debian.net that impacts the work of Debian package
maintainers who are often adding testing to their packages could be
announced by a standalone d-d-a post mentioning work done by both the
intern and other contributors. Or if the work was mostly internal with
a few maintainer-visible feature additions, the latter could be
announced to the package maintainers via a paragraph in DevNews.

https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews

Work on the Debian Med blend could be communicated to users of Debian
Med, via the existing mailing lists, or via medical conference papers
or posters or similar as appropriate.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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