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Outreach Program for Women (Winter 2014)

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@TwitterOSS is a proud participant of the Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women, which runs two editions every year. In this program we connect women with open source projects and mentors in a three-month, full-time internship.

Information for Applicants

These ideas were contributed by our developers and our community, they are only meant to be a starting point. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas, you may wish to contact the developers and find out more about the particular suggestion you're looking at.

Timeline

Check all the details about this round at the program page.

  • October 1: application period opens
  • December 10 - March 10: internship period

Accepted Projects

TODO

Adding a Proposal

Please follow this template:

  • Brief explanation:
  • Expected results:
  • Knowledge Prerequisite:
  • Mentor:

See here for more information: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#Send_in_an_Application

If you are not a developer but have a good idea for a proposal, get in contact with relevant developers first or @TwitterOSS.

Project Ideas

Aurora

  • Description: Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation.
  • Aurora Mailing List: http://aurora.apache.org/community/
  • Aurora IRC: #mesos
  • Aurora on Twitter: @ApacheAurora
  • Where to start: The project also has several tickets labeled newbie if you'd like to introduce yourself by submitting a patch.

TODO

Finagle

(Mentors for Finagle projects still subject to change.)

Netty Migration

  • Brief explanation: Assist in the process of migrating Finagle from Netty 3 to Netty 4
  • Expected results: Improved Finagle APIs that do not expose Netty types
  • Knowledge prerequisites: Scala, Java, an interest in learning about Netty and Finagle
  • Mentors: Travis Brown (@travisbrown)

New Endpoints for Twitter-Server

  • Brief explanation: Twitter-Server currently exposes a lot of information that can be difficult to digest
  • Expected results: New Twitter-Server endpoints for examining histograms and other stats
  • Knowledge prerequisites: Scala, Jackson (or other JSON libraries), an interest in learning about Finagle
  • Mentors: Travis Brown (@travisbrown)

Better Testing Tools and Documentation

  • Brief explanation: Finagle's tests are in the process of being migrated from specs to ScalaTest, and there’s room for improving our use of ScalaTest
  • Expected results: Better tools and guidelines for testing both Finagle itself and Finagle applications
  • Knowledge prerequisites: Scala, ScalaTest, an interest in learning about Finagle
  • Mentors: Travis Brown (@travisbrown)

Mesos

  • Description: Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.
  • Mesos Mailing List: http://mesos.apache.org/community/
  • Mesos IRC: #mesos
  • Mesos on Twitter: @ApacheMesos
  • Where to start: The project also has several tickets labeled newbie if you'd like to introduce yourself by submitting a patch.

Mesos Getting Started Page and Documentation

  • Focused on improving the 'Getting Started' page and overall project documentation
  • Will fill in gaps of project documentation, including stout/libprocess/mesos
  • Knowledge Prerequisite: C++ and interest in documentation
  • Mentors: Dave Lester (@davelester) and Vinod Kone (@vinodkone)

Mesos Tutorials, Website, and Support

  • Focused on an end-to-end tutorials (creating one or two) that walk user through running Mesos frameworks. * May be in the form of screencasts (video) or written form
  • Participates in Mesos community mailing lists to help field community questions
  • Additional focus on improving the Mesos website and what new users see
  • Knowledge prereq: An interest and ability to pick up Mesos, HTML/CSS and Ruby are nice to have
  • Mentors: Dave Lester (@davelester) and Vinod Kone (@vinodkone)

TODO

Pants Build

Pants Project Idea

TODO Ity :)

Eclipse Integration

  • Brief explanation: Add Eclipse integration to Pants
  • Expected results: Create a classpath container based on integrating with Pants and a launcher.
  • Knowledge Prerequisite: Python, Java, Eclipse
  • Mentor: Chris Aniszczyk (@cra)

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