[Haskell-community] A few kickoff notes and Outreachy

[Adam Foltzer]

Thanks for kicking this off, Gershom. I emailed Marina Zhurakhinskaya
earlier today asking for what sort of timeline we should expect for the
summer 2016 round, and will report back here when I hear back.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone and welcome. I’m surprised we have roughly 50 subscribers so
> far. Bear in mind I do expect this to be a relatively boring list, but we
> will of course see how things develop :-).
>
> I came back from ICFP with a bunch of discussions about various small
> things in various stages of work and repair, and I plan to start a number
> of small threads as time permits over the next few days on each of these in
> turn, with the idea that people who are interested can follow only relevant
> discussions, and people can reply over time (be it rapidly or just a month
> or two down the line) to update on how things are going. Many of these were
> discussed by the whole committee at one of our first in-person meetings
> since inception where all members were present (a rare occasion, and not
> one I think we should imagine is easily replicable).
>
> One thing thought I would mention first is that we are planning to
> participate in Outreachy (https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/) which is the
> successor to the Gnome Outreach Program for Women. It works sort of like
> GSoC but with an outreach focus, and with orgs funding their own interns
> and Outreachy coordinating, as I understand it. We had meant to do so for a
> few years but the timing hasn’t worked out. The applications for orgs to
> participate in the new round closes on September 21 — I think we had
> thought it was too late for us to co-ordinate for this round, but instead
> we would prefer to do it in May so as to co-ordinate our admin overhead
> with that of dealing with GSoC. Nonetheless, I believe the plan was to get
> in touch with Outreachy very soon, so that we could actually have things
> lined up by the next round, unlike previous years. I think Adam was going
> to handle this?
>
> I think an overall consideration here is that we have now acquired a
> relative surplus compared to our income, year over year, and it would be
> good to look for modest ways to use it to good ends. So an intern in the
> next outreachy round seems like a good “trial balloon” in this direction.
>
> Anyway, we can use this thread to track when we make any progress on
> discussions with Outreachy and what steps we need to take when.
>
> —Gershom
>
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