Outreachy Winter 2022: Applicants tasks/contributions: Fixing OSCSA Blog

[BatoolMM]

🎊 Welcome Outreachy 2022 Contributors! We're excited that you're here 🎉

This ticket will serve as the central point tracking the contributions of perspective Outreachy (Winter 2022 cohort) applicants.

Outreachy provides paid remote, three-month internships to support diversity in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). For more information about what Outreachy is, follow this link.

Outreachy internships are:

💵 Paid - $7,000 USD total internship stipend

🌍 Remote - both interns and mentors work remotely

🕰 3 months - internships run May to August.

For those interested, this process is described here.

We ask all outreachy candidates to work on a minimum of 3 projects simultaneously so that they are not completely relying on their selection in OSCSA if we end up not selecting them!

Summary

Open Science community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA) was established in line with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, which focuses on installing values, enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education. It aims to provide a place where newcomers and experienced peers interact, inspire each other to embed open science practices and values in their workflows and provide feedback on policies, infrastructures and support services. Our community is part of the International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities (INOSC).

Open Science has a blog post, not yet linked to the website, created using Quarto.

How to start?

• Join OSCSA community here
• Go through the code of conduct.

Submission

• Submit a new issue with PR. Use our template for both issue and PR
• Explain in your PR what you did and what do you think needs improving?

Tasks for Intern Selection:

Task 1, 2 and 3 are completed in this issue Open-Science-Community-Saudi-Arabia/OSCSA_Website#12

Task 4

The task is described in issue Open-Science-Community-Saudi-Arabia/MOOCs#1

Task 5

Our OSCSA blog is built using Quarto. We would like ti to improve the continues integration and deployment (CI/CD) for the blog in GitHub using GitHub action. At the moment, we have a file called .github/workflows/workflows.yml but the preview for the deployment isn't working well as you can see in PR #5.

In this task, open an issue to address this problem and then a PR to fix it.

Task 6

Our OSCSA blog is NOT bilingual yet. Your task is to make it bilingual by allowing the user to switch between English and Arabic.

Arabic content is available at this repository, please note that we don't want to have two repositories for each language.

You can find tips in this discussion and here is an example of repo that successfully run bilingual content in Quarto

This task is allowed by more than one individual!

Meetings

We will lead an online video call (on Zoom) to answer any questions you have. This will be on Tuesday, the 18th of October, at 12:10 pm UTC!

The link for Zoom Meeting
https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93627968243?pwd=OVh5d1IreFRnOVRpNDVXMWRwMmlmZz09

Assessing Candidates

• Candidate should be comfortable collaborating through GitHub
• Your UI/UX design
• Candidates should also be comfortable using HTML/CSS/JS and R.
• Their insights about how they think the website can be improved!
• Candidate should be comfortable opening issues and PR with elaborate descriptions.

Communication

Maintainers will answer your questions under the issue or Github Discussion from 10:00am - 4:00pm UTC. Please avoid communicating through emails unless it is necessary.

[victorvictoria-maker]

Hello @BatoolMM, Please, can I be assigned to task 6?

[BatoolMM]

Welcome @victorvictoria-maker, Feel free to open an issue that describes this problem using the template and then a PR to address it!

[Njong392]

Hello @BatoolMM I'll go ahead and work on task 6

[Mublin]

Hello @BatoolMM I'll go ahead and work on task 6

Issue is already open @Njong392 you can come work with the team though

[Njong392]

Hello @BatoolMM I'll go ahead and work on task 6

Issue is already open @Njong392 you can come work with the team though

Nice. I would love to join your team.

[mildrette]

hello EveryOne can I join the team too??

[mbonamensa]

Hello @BatoolMM I'll go ahead and work on task 6

Issue is already open @Njong392 you can come work with the team though

I'd like to join the team and work on this issue also. How do I go about it? @BatoolMM @Mublin

[mbonamensa]

@BatoolMM I wanted to point out a typo in the description of task 5 in your comment.
See screenshot

[Teslimsama]

Hello can I join the team

[xiaodaiweiwei]

Hello @BatoolMM I'd like to try to work out task5. How could I get started to do the task? Thank you!

[BatoolMM]

Hi @xiaodaiweiwei, task 5 was addressed in PR #11 but if you have further improvement, feel free to open a new issue with a detailed description, and then open a PR to address it.

[BatoolMM]

Hi Everyone, we were supposed to have a Zoom session for Q/As today at 12:10pm UTC, but we had to postpone it till Tuesday at the same time. This was outside our control, but we are happy to answer questions regarding anything, including dev branches, if you post them in the issue and tag either me or @alswajiab. We are also reviewing all your wonderful PRs. All of your contributions will be recorded and acknowledged in our README file. Thank you again for you all your amazing work 🌷.

[Mublin]

Hi Everyone, we were supposed to have a Zoom session for Q/As today at 12:10pm UTC, but we had to postpone it till Tuesday at the same time. This was outside our control, but we are happy to answer questions regarding anything, including dev branches, if you post them in the issue and tag either me or @alswajiab. We are also reviewing all your wonderful PRs, and all of your contributions will be recorded and acknowledged in our README file. Thank you again for you all your amazing work 🌷.

Thank you very much @BatoolMM @alswajiab wishing you Jummaat Mubaraq, very happy it was postponed coz it was Jummaat time. Jummaat Mubaraq

[elijahndibe]

hello @BatoolMM you said there will be an online zoom meeting on 18th october but that date is tuesday not friday, Pls if you can make the correction

[BatoolMM]

Thank you @codeinvoke7, done!

[vanithaak]

@BatoolMM , please help me with my pr :)

[BatoolMM]

@vanithaak Sure, I reviewed your PR now. Let me know if you need any help!

[vanithaak]

@vanithaak Sure, I reviewed your PR now. Let me know if you need any help!

merge conflicts and rebase, before you merge my pr (i'm not sure how to do it), but I did something after watching some YT tutorials and blogs

[elijahndibe]

@BatoolMM Please has task 5 been solved or I can go on and work on it

[Tammy-Ajoko]

Hello @BatoolMM I'll go ahead and work on task 6

Issue is already open @Njong392 you can come work with the team though

I would also like to join your team

[oluwatunbi]

hello @BatoolMM, please I will like to work on project 4.

[Trailblazer007]

Hello everyone and @BatoolMM. I'm Seun and I'm new here. I'd like to join the team and then work on task 6.

[Trailblazer007]

I'd really appreciate anyone who can point me in any helpful direction. Thanks in anticipation!

[Mublin]

Please when is the meeting?

[BatoolMM]

We are reviewing your PRs!

For anyone who couldn't join the meeting, this is the Slides we used during the meeting.

Let me know if you have any questions!

[Jolah1]

hi @BatoolMM i will be love to work on task 6.
Thank you.

[BatoolMM]

Thank you all for your contributions so far. Don't worry if your PR isn't merged yet, still don't forget to add your contributions to Outreachy. In terms of the timeline, feel free to submit your your own timeline, this will not be taken into account during the selection process in OSCSA.

Outside Outreachy, we are happy for your continued involvement in the Community and you are very welcome to continue to work on any of these issues after the contribution phase. All contributors will be acknowledged and added to the GitHub README and any talk presented by community members. OSCSA is alos happy to :

• Add a recommendation on the applicant's LinkedIn profile if they provided continued involvement with the Community
• Endorse you for skills on LinkedIn
• Coaching you on how to highlight their contributions on your resume
• We also happy to provide a reference or recommendation letter
• Thank you again for all your wonderful contribution so far 🌷!