#opnfv-meeting: Weekly Technical Discussion 153

Meeting summary

1. Roll Call (bh526r, 13:00:16)
   1. Bin Hu (bh526r, 13:00:25)
   2. Al Morton (bh526r, 13:04:06)
   3. Mike Fix (bh526r, 13:04:12)
   4. Mark Shostak (bh526r, 13:04:19)
   5. Sridhar Rao (bh526r, 13:04:24)
   
   
2. Community Development / Attracting Talents - Letter of Recognition for Student Volunteers (Unpaid) (bh526r, 13:05:19)
   1. Sridhar summarized that LFN has an intern program, but limited budget / interns (bh526r, 13:06:10)
   2. Many students are willing to volunteer as unpaid interns (bh526r, 13:06:39)
   3. Al Morton (acmacm, 13:07:14)
   4. In order to attract more talented developers, and expand OPNFV's outreach in academia (bh526r, 13:07:40)
   5. it is good to recognize those unpaid interns, or student volunteers (bh526r, 13:08:27)
   6. Sridhar and Al contacted LFN, and got the answer "No" (bh526r, 13:08:47)
   7. Projects PTL's Responsiblity: Create a well-defined project, Select Students, Define work and ensure its done, Assess the work. (SRao, 13:08:48)
   8. Sridhar and Al suggested that OPNFV should issue the Letter of Recognition to those student volunteers / unpaid interns (bh526r, 13:09:58)
   9. https://github.com/acmacm/Student_Volunteer/blob/master/Letter_text.md (bh526r, 13:10:32)
   10. Al provided a simple, exemplary Letter of Recognition (bh526r, 13:10:59)
   11. The Letter could be on LF Letterhead, or a Letterhead with OPNFV Logo (bh526r, 13:12:20)
   12. Mike wondered why LFN didn't want to do this for unpaid intern (bh526r, 13:13:36)
   13. Al said he was shocked too. (bh526r, 13:13:53)
   14. Mark asked that LFN just didn't explain anything why (bh526r, 13:14:18)
   15. Al indicated no explanation. (bh526r, 13:14:53)
   16. Mark asked who got paid (bh526r, 13:15:05)
   17. Everyone working for a company and LFN is paid. So the topic here is specifically for students. (bh526r, 13:15:44)
   18. Mike asked what is the qualification/criteria to get the Letter of Recognition from OPNFV (bh526r, 13:16:52)
   19. Sridhar explained that we need a well-defined project, Select Students, Define work and ensure its done, Assess the work. (bh526r, 13:17:27)
   20. Mark asked what was rejected by LFN (bh526r, 13:22:55)
   21. Sridhar explained that he requested to send Letter of Certification to unpaid interns/student volunteers. We would use the same process, and the only difference is that student volunteers are not paid (bh526r, 13:27:12)
   22. Mike suggested to ask LFN again (bh526r, 13:27:46)
   23. All agreed that we should discuss this topic of community development in TSC, and ask LFN to expand the intern program to cover unpaid interns / student volunteers with the Letter of Certificaiton only (bh526r, 13:28:56)
   24. Depending on the answers from LFN, TSC may discuss next steps such as Student Volunteer program administered by OPNFV community (bh526r, 13:29:54)
   
   
3. AOB (bh526r, 13:34:04)
   1. Meeting adjourned (bh526r, 13:34:11)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. bh526r (33)
2. collabot` (3)
3. acmacm (1)
4. SRao (1)