Template:Selection Process for Outreach Programs


 * Seek long-term contributors, not just new features. It probably takes more time to mentor a project than to complete it yourself.
 * Choose the best candidate, not the one that arrived first. Early birds have more chances indeed, but we must respect the timeline.
 * Don't choose a candidate based only on a convincing proposal and past experiences. They must complete the project guidelines.
 * Communicate transparently in public channels, allowing fairness among candidates and involvement of other community contributors.
 * Require from all candidates public documentation and regular participation in the community channels of your choice.
 * Score your own candidates and report this to the organization admins.
 * Don't share any information about acceptance with your candidates before the official announcements. This also means:
 * The mentor/co-mentor should not assign the specific Phabricator project task or its dependencies to any potential candidates before the official acceptance announcement. This avoids misinterpretation and wrong expectations.
 * The mentor/co-mentor should keep the gate open for potential candidates to submit in proposals for the project until the official deadline.
 * A single project idea shouldn't be shared between two candidates, but try breaking up the large project to individual non-overlapping modules, allowing better evaluation of individual efforts.