About this Project

This project is part of the 2020 GNOME Community Engagement Challenge and meant for use by the BOSS: Big Open Source Sister team, Challenge organizers, and Challenge judges.

The 2020 GNOME Community Engagement Challenge is a three-part challenge created in partnership with Endless. The Challenge encourages individuals or teams to create stimulating ideas that will connect the next generation of coders to the FOSS community and keep them involved for years to come. Learn more about the Challenge.

BOSS: Big Open Source Sister

BOSS aims to reach underrepresented groups in tech who want to be mentored and assisted in learning how to work on open source projects. BOSS will provide a safe space and an accompanying methodology for them to learn basic concepts of working in a small open-source chatbot boilerplate project. The mentoring will focus on improving their technical skill and confidence to contribute to FOSS. The mentor team is composed only of women, with previous experience in both FOSS and developing chatbots. We will apply this project in Brazil, a country with significant social inequality, and we chose the theme chatbot because it has an increasing professional demand in the software industry. We will also focus the mentoring in dealing with Competence-Confidence Gap observed in under-represented groups in the software industry, which affect their contribution to FOSS and in their job.

How to Use this Project

Members of the BOSS: Big Open Source Sister team should use this GitLab project to enter their Phase 2 submissions. For this phase, we ask you to submit a proof of concept for your project. Your proof of concept can be a working prototype, project examples, and/or documentation demonstrating your concept.

• All code-based projects should store their code and assets in the repository of this project.
• All non-code projects should upload all relevant materials as PDF or jpeg files to the project repository.

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All Phase 2 submissions must be added to this folder by Nov 2, 2020, at or before 23:59 UTC.

Please contact cechallenge@gnome.org prior to the deadline if you have any questions or issues.