Budget request: Community Bridge trial run for a JCasC project

[Oleg Nenashev]

Dear all,

I would like to request a budget for a new Outreach program we were discussing few times before in Platform, Docs and Advocacy and Outreach SIGs. This program is powered by Community Bridge project. This is a new Outreach service created by Linux Foundation, and we would be interested to use it to accommodate projects which we were unable to run in GSoC/GSoD this year. We had an overview of this program at the Advocacy and Outreach SIG meeting on June 6th (video, meeting notes).

We have a student (Sladyn Nunes) who is pretty active in the community now. He has already applied to the community bridge project, and he is interested in the Configuration-as-Code project (compatibility, development tools). You can find his proposal here. he has already done some contributions, and JCasC plugin team is ready to mentor the student (Joseph Petersen and Tim Jacomb would be lead mentors). Focus of the project: JCasC schema validation fixes and IDE integrations.

The plan is to have the student working on the project for few months with 20+ hours per week time dedication.

What I ask for?

• Student grant/stipend - 1500 USD
• If the project is successful, travel grant to Jenkins World 2019 in Lisbon or a similar event
• Our default travel grant policy is 500 USD, but the trip is going to be more expensive. I would like to request a bigger grant if possible

Please let me know if any additional information is needed.

Thanks in advance,

Oleg

[Tim Jacomb]

+1

It's a great initiative, thanks Oleg for your work in getting this setup.

Cheers

Tim

[Tracy Miranda]

Hi,

I think this will be great to do, thanks Oleg!

One comment about the amount - it sounds like it could be on the low side.

For Outreachy interns get ~500 USD per full time week (40hrs) (or overall $5500 + $500 travel grant for 3 months). 

I think this is the right ballpark for what Jenkins (and then CDF projects thereafter) can aim to pay for any internships, adjusting accordingly for part time work, etc. 

Tracy

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[Oleg Nenashev]

Hello Tracy,

I definitely do not mind offering more if we have funds :) Personally I think that the stipend is secondary. Students get experience from working with open-source organizations and highly experienced mentors who would not be available if they joined their local companies. Contributing to open-source also helps mentees to build their portfolio which is helpful in future job applications. Not all outreach programs offer stipends at all, and for me it is just a bonus to non-monetary benefits.

Just to explain how I calculated the budget:

• I was using GSoC as a reference. GSoC offers considerably less money to students than Outreachy in the most of the regions. 
• GSoC stipend is 3000 USD in India which means 250 USD per week for fulltime. It is higher than common intern or junior engineer salaries in the region
• In the case of Sladyn, the Dev List proposal also includes sponsorship of a Jenkins World trip. It might be from 500 USD (standard Jenkins travel grant) to full coverage (~1500USD) if we decide to do so

After a discussion with Sladyn, the final target numbers are 3 months and 30hrs per week. So the timeframe is equal to GSoC coding phase, and for 30hrs.per week the GSoC expectation would be 2250 USD. It is a higher time investment than I expected, so we could indeed increase the budget.

To follow the pattern proposed by Tracy, let me propose few options for the discussion at the governance meeting:

• 1500 USD + 500 USD travel grant. Minimum option we discussed and agreed on with Sladyn. It is almost on par with GSoC though "travel grant" cannot be compared with non-binding payment
• 1500 USD + 1500 USD travel grant. This is my previous expectation with explicit travel grant dedicated for Jenkins World in Lisbon
• 3000 USD + 500 USD travel grant - Equal to GSoC for full-time, with extra standard travel grant
• 5500 USD + 500 USD - Equal to Outreachy

Opinions?

BR, Oleg

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[Oleg Nenashev]

Hi all,

Just to summarize the yesterday's discussion:

• Trial run of Community Bridge is approved. We start it on Aug 01
• We approved the 3000USD + 500USD travel grant option
• We split 3000 to two installments. We will have mid-term evaluation to evaluate the progress
• Travel grant is conditional, depending on the project success. 
• I will create a JEP to document the Jenkins Community Bridge project framework for future reuse

Please welcome Sladyn to the Jenkins project! And stay tuned for more detailed announcements in the newarest future. If you are interested in JCasC development tools, please join https://gitter.im/jenkinsci/jcasc-devtools-project and regular JCasC project meetings. 

Best regards,

Oleg

[Marky Jackson]

Welcome Sladyn!

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[Kara de la Marck]

Welcome Sladyn!

Very excited that you are our first Community Bridge mentee!

[Mark Waite]

Welcome Sladyn!

Should we ask the mentors, Joseph Petersen and Tim Jacomb, to register as mentors with CommunityBridge?  https://people.communitybridge.org/project/bce45251-1ff4-4131-9699-0a0017b31495

[Oleg Nenashev]

I have already sent them invites. It does not work due to whatever reason. I cannot even get myself listed :)

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[Sladyn Nunes]

Thank you so much everyone, looking forward to having an amazing time here.