Hi Outreachy applicants! I just wanted to mention that Outreachy itself will be using Open Data Kit. Outreachy will have a booth at the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computer Science conference. We're going to be collecting data from people who stop by the booth, so that we can add them to our announcements mailing list. But we expect the wifi at the conference to be pretty spotty, so we're using the ODK app on an Android tablet to collect the data and subscribe people later.
Good luck with your application and contributions to ODK!
Please join the #docs-code channel of the ODK Slack if you haven't done so already.
If you've already started forking and working on issues (wooooooooooooo!), please make sure you pull back in changes from upstream into your local master on a regular basis, and then work on issue-specific branches from master. There's a lot of work going on all of the sudden, and we want to avoid accidental divergence and merge conflicts.
Outreachy non coding projects!
Find your interesting topic in the show case to begin. #showcase
refer to the key questions in the #outreachy-2017.
Lets show off the showcase!!!!!
find this project very interesting I’d like to get involved
I do not have much experience with open source so I’d be glad to have a mentor!
I am interested to apply to the Outreachy for this round but I’d like to contribute anyway
I really want to help and improve my skills
I am well prepared to work in a full stack range. I have some experience with Java( I would say mid level) .
I am also experienced with HTML5, CSS, javascript for the front end(beginners).
I look forward to hearing more details about the project.
Any advice on how should I proceed will more than welcome.
Welcome, @Komal-Agarwal96! The "Project" section describes what we are looking for an Outreachy intern to do during their internship. To get started, please read the "Getting Started" section carefully and follow those steps. If you have specific questions, you can ask them here!
Hello, @LN ! I have Front End Development knowlege and I want to work as intern and want to learn more. But I don't know where to submit application regarding slected project and where to introduce myself. guide me.
Hello Adam, I am interested in applying as an intern through Outreachy. I tried logging in to the ODK slack but in requested that I must have an invite. Please send me an invite for the ODK Slack. Thanks
A number of you have already made significant contributions to ODK Docs. Thank you so much for your work.
If you have already completed at least TWO accepted and merged Pull Requests (a line edit and a completed issue), it is time to start thinking about what work you might want to spend your internship period doing. The idea is for the bulk of your actual internship time to be focused on one or two large projects, rather than a bunch of small PRs and fixes.
In the next few days, we would like for you to start a shareable document that outlines your specific interests with regards to an ODK project. You can do this with Google Docs (preferred), or if you don't use Google Docs - create a GH repo with a simple Markdown file. This doc should list:
what skills you have that are relevant to the ODK work you want to be doing
what skills you would like to learn or improve on
what specific deliverable(s) you would like to work on --- This is probably going to be based on one or more existing GH issues (like the screenshot automation, style guide testing, etc.), or something else specific that you feel would be of value both to yourself and the ODK community.
The doc needs to be shareable, and you need to share it with myself (adam.michael.wood@gmail.com, adammichaelwood on github), @ln, @yanokwa, and the other Outreachy organizers here in the ODK forum. These will be working documents. That is: we will iterate on them together. You don't have to get something perfect before you share it, just get something started.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask here.
If you have not completed at least TWO Pull Requests...
You are not too late. Follow the contribution guidelines laid out here and elsewhere, ask questions if you need to, and jump in.
My name is Alessandra and I'm very interested in participating of OpenDataKit projects.
My english is not very good so I think it would be better not to participate of the non coding projects.
I would like to know if beginners in python can participate of any coding project. I also would like to confirm if all the work will be done remotely (I live in Brazil).
Check out the open issues and see what you feel you can accomplish.
It's okay to be a beginner in Python, as long as you have coding experience in another language.
But if you have very little coding experience at all, and you have trouble writing English, it's going to be difficult to contribute on this particular project.
I am Parinishtha, a fourth year student of Architecture at IIT Roorkee, India, who is passionate about user experience and loves improving the usability of products. I have recently begun contributing to Mozilla's open design, last summers I worked with Amazon India, as an intern, trying to improve the experience for their customers. I also take up projects with volunteer organisations from time to time.
I am looking to apply for the non-coding profile, and want to focus on:
Usability / User Experience Testing of ODK tools, recommendations for improvements;
User interviews for the showcase
Create “how-to” videos and/or screencasts
I aim to start contributing within this week, but I would really appreciate if I could get some specific suggestions on how to get started with the topics of interest mentioned above.
Thanks so much to everyone who joined the Open Data Kit community while considering Outreachy! We had and continue to have some absolutely terrific contributions from around the world. Huge thanks to everyone who has been involved: @sarahsharp and the Outreachy organization, the community members who reviewed pull requests, the mentors and all who checked the project out.
We received more solid applications than we expected and selecting interns was very difficult. Big congrats to everyone who completed their application! We know it's hard work to put together a good project plan and many were excellent.
I hope that everyone who discovered ODK through this process has had a good experience. We welcome and encourage your continued participation! It's people like you who make Open Data Kit the impactful project that it is.
@LN I am also working on making the video of how to work in ODK and I would like if any other person who is working on video making category will join me so content will be same, and no duplicate video will be there.
