Ask HN: Need some extra dev help on an open source project?
I run a startup where we teach software engineers in India how to be effective remote employees and then help them break into international tech careers via full-time remote jobs.
For the last 4 weeks of training, students complete an open source apprenticeship where they work full-time contributing to select open source projects for free.
The time commitment from project maintainers in return is pretty minimal.
- A 30-minute on-boarding video call during the first week to get to know each other and clear up any questions
- A list of "good first-time contributor" issues to get started
- Timely pull-request review so that the engineer doesn't get blocked since they will be devoting around 6 hours per day Mon-Fri to the project
- Complete a short survey at the end that will serve as a performance review
Does anyone have a project that could use some extra help or know a good project that I should reach out to?
The full details of the program are here: https://www.pesto.tech/open-source-apprenticeship/
I would also be happy to answer any questions.
Thanks! :)