nickvidal
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3 years ago Me and Ben presented the proposal at the TAC meeting, and the response has been mostly positive. I followed up with an email and a decision will be made by September 9th. I included a personal message from Karen Sandler, the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy:
"Dear members of the Confidential Computing Consortium. Data protection has never been more important in computing, and has a major impact across different industries, from customer data, to healthcare, to human rights. I'm so glad that you're all focused on diversifying the field and providing opportunities to people from different backgrounds. Your application to the Outreachy program is highly encouraged!"
pranayrauni
Our recommendation is to have the Enarx project (and the Confidential Computing Consortium) as part of Outreachy program from Software Freedom Conservancy, a diversity initiative that provides paid, remote internships. Past Outreachy interns include: 92% women, 4% transgender, genderqueer, or non-binary people, 64% people of color, and 12% people from a historically disadvantaged caste or tribe.
Outreachy internships provide a stipend of $6,000 USD for full-time commitment that lasts 3 months (running from Dec. 6, 2021 to March 4, 2022).
Ideally, this initiative should be run by the Confidential Computing Consortium, and each project would be responsible for developing their own activities within this program. By promoting this initiative as a Consortium, the Enarx community can grow much faster than if promoting on its own.
Members of the Confidential Computing Consortium will be invited to mentor these interns. Interns can choose to work on any open source project that is part of the Confidential Computing Consortium. As of now, these projects are Enarx, Open Enclave SDK, Keystone, Veracruz, Graphene, Occlum, and Trusted Compute Framework.
We would have to get approval to move forward as a Consortium by September 10, 2021, the deadline to apply to the Outreachy program. Mentors are welcome to submit internship projects by September 17, 2021. If we don’t get an approval from the Consortium, Enarx can decide to run this as part of the Outreachy program on its own.
Prior to the start of the internship, the projects would have to develop one or more proposals of interesting activities that the interns should be able to complete in 3 months.
https://www.outreachy.org/