Outreachy/2016 potential projects

This is for tracking and planning only

Project List

Community Operations Projects

Project	IRC Channel	Web Page	Mentor(s)	Notes
Community Operations (CommOps)	#fedora-commops	CommOps Wiki	Remy DeCausemaker (decause)	The rise of DevOps has been swift. Sysadmins are increasingly instrumenting and integrating automated systems to stand up and maintain their infrastructure. This same approach can be taken to support community infrastructure in a distributed and automated fashion, that doesn't force people to choose between using their precious volunteer time to "build things" or "build communities that build things." The community operations team works across numerous technologies, and interest areas in Fedora, including Messaging, Storytelling, Fedora Badges, Fedora Hubs, Wiki, Culture, Metrics, Voting, and other miscellaneous topics. It is important to note that CommOps team members are generalists, and the strengths and interests of individual applicants will determine the precise nature of your work. Technical skill, though desirable, is not the primary selection criteria. Enthusiasm for FOSS culture and community organization, and effective communication skills are most important. Your internship with this project could involve any or all of the following: Web testing and bug reporting / triaging Content development and syndication Writing for the web and print Collaboration with Fedora Council and Leadership on Project Objectives and Initiatives Volunteer Coordination and Organizing Campaign development and implementation Advocacy and Messaging Required: Effective Communication Skills; written and verbal, synchronous and asynchronous. Passion for Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture Self-directed and Curious nature Experience writing for the web (Content only is ok, HTML/CSS even better) Experience publishing and/or syndicating content via Social Media Experience working in teams, or community organizing Bonus Skills: Basic multimedia development skills Web development/design skills Sysadmin/Devops skills programming/scripting skills

Development Projects

Project	IRC Channel	Web Page	Mentor(s)	Notes
Fedora Infrastructure Web Application Development: Fedora Hubs	#fedora-hubs	Fedora Infrastructure Team Fedora Hubs Wiki	Ralph Bean (threebean) Luke Macken (lmacken) Remy DeCausemaker (decause)	Fedora has been in the process of creating a new web presence for all of the Fedora users, subprojects, and communities. We also plan to integrate some of the features of this system with the prototype of the Fedora Developer Portal, which is targeted at helping general developers use Fedora. While the Hubs project itself is aimed at Fedora contributor circles, the reusable features will allow the Portal to use this work to speak to general developers who may not have an interest in working in the Fedora community, but want to connect with community members for advice, best practices, or to generate interest in their upstream project. Several of the principal app developers in the Fedora Engineering team will be working together with you on this project during the Outreachy term. You'll participate directly with team members daily on core features of Hubs as well as integration with the Portal. This is a great opportunity both for regular mentorship and for being deeply involved in an exciting and fast-moving project with the Fedora team. Working on this project could involve any of the following: Adding new features to the web frontend Adding new capabilities to the backend Writing and deploying new widgets Triaging and processing new widget ideas submitted by the community at large. Implementing existing (and thoroughly detailed) mockups from previous UI/UX interns and team members. Skills: HTML/Javascript/CSS Basic Python a plus Bonus: Experience with Bootstrap, jinja templates, Fedmsg, datanommer/grepper, or other fedora infrastructure projects a HUGE plus. When applying to this project, it may be useful to review the designers' blogs about the projects' design here: Fedora Developer Portal http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2015/09/15/fedora-developer-website-design/ Fedora Hubs http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/category/fedora-hubs https://meghanrichardson.wordpress.com/ A video overview of the Hubs project is available here: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2015/07/01/fedora-hubs-update/