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#opnfv-meeting: Weekly Technical Discussion 153
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Meeting started by bh526r at 13:00:06 UTC.  The full logs are available
at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-meeting/2019/opnfv-meeting.2019-10-07-13.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Roll Call  (bh526r, 13:00:16)
  * Bin Hu  (bh526r, 13:00:25)
  * Al Morton  (bh526r, 13:04:06)
  * Mike Fix  (bh526r, 13:04:12)
  * Mark Shostak  (bh526r, 13:04:19)
  * Sridhar Rao  (bh526r, 13:04:24)

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

* AOB  (bh526r, 13:34:04)
  * Meeting adjourned  (bh526r, 13:34:11)



Meeting ended at 13:34:16 UTC.



People present (lines said)
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* bh526r (33)
* collabot` (3)
* acmacm (1)
* SRao (1)



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