Outreachy organizer admin tasks:
- Reviewed final feedback for all December 2018 Outreachy interns
- Issued all December 2018 final stipend payment request emails
- Reviewed all mentor intern selections for May 2019 to ensure only strong applicants were selected
- Double checked some applicant time commitments via email
- Resolved any intern selection conflicts between two Outreachy projects
- Communicated with Google Summer of Code organization administrators when an applicant applied to both Outreachy and GSoC
- Double checked that mentors who had selected multiple interns had a co-mentor to help them
- Communicated with potential sponsors
- Gathered billing information for all new sponsors
- Prepped sponsor invoice drafts, thank you tweets, and ensured sponsor logo prominence
- Discussed potential changes to the application period dates with Outreachy mentors
Development:
- Triaged the Outreachy website GitHub issue tracker
- Added a GitHub new project with newcomer-friendly issues in preparation for participating in the PyCon U.S. sprints
- Added a new file with Python factories code to set up a local test database during specific periods in the internship round
- Updated the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for the Outreachy Zulip Chat server
- Fixed a number of bugs that mentors ran into during the intern selection process, or documented them for the PyCon U.S. sprints
Documentation:
- Added 371 lines to the Outreachy website README.md and 5 new database graphics to help new developers working on the website
- Started writing a manual documenting the steps I take as an Outreachy organizer each round.