On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:06:26PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:44:45PM +0000, Neil McGovern wrote: > > * Outreach. Every team complains (quite rightly!) about the lack of > > people to do the work. Yet we seem to be rather poor at actively > > recruiting people to come and do things for us. Outreachy is a great > > initiative, and I would love to see a Debian Apprentice scheme (though > > that's probably a bit of a stretch goal!) > > So, to be clear: would you authorize to use regular Debian funds to > sponsor Debian participation into Outreachy (which costs ~6000 USD per > intern), rather than going necessarily through dedicated fund raising > campaigns at each edition? > Not quite. I'd basically guarantee a minimum number of slots, but still expect the fund raising to take place. Essentially, Debian would be the backer in case there's not enough funds raised. > Considering that there are 2 Outreachy sessions per years, how many > slots per year do you think it would be sensible funding on general > Debian funds? Speaking to Tom (who's running around and seems to be doing most of the leg work from what I can see), 2 per session, 4 total per year would be preferable. Neil --
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