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