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# Watch.ocaml.org Feedback

*Mentors: Anil & Patrick
Intern: Diksha Gupta*

Mentors and interns will be asked:
* Do mentor(s) answer the intern's questions within 10 hours?
**Yes**
* Does the intern ask mentor(s) questions when stuck for more than 1 to 3 hours?
**Yes?**
* Do mentor(s) offer more support if the intern is stuck?
**Yes**
* Do mentor(s) meet privately with the intern?
**Yes**
* Do mentor(s) meet with the intern over phone or video chat?
**Yes**
* Has the intern recently missed more than 2 meetings?
**No**
* Do mentor(s) and the intern talk about project progress at least 3 days a week?
**Yes**
* Has the intern created a blog?
**Will double check...**

Mentors will be asked:
* What was the last date you were in contact with your intern?
**Probably the day we submit this haha :)**
* Please provide a paragraph describing your intern's progress on establishing communication with you, connecting to your FOSS community, and ramping up on their first tasks. This will only be shown to Outreachy organizers and Software Freedom Conservancy accounting staff.
**Diksha has made great progress so far working very well independently and then asking good questions when stuck or something is not clear. Internally we use Slack to organise discussions including one for Outreachy participants and a private channel for project-specific discussions. Already, Diksha has catalogued more than 50 OCaml videos for the website and has written a small HTTP client to make use of a REST API.**
* Please provide a paragraph describing what support you are providing as an Outreachy mentor. This will be shared with Outreachy organizers and your community coordinator.
**We provide support asynchronously as messages by providing good examples and answering Diksha's questions. So far we have also informally reviewed code and spent some time on video calls discussing the project, walking through some of the libraries that can be used. Outside of this, Diksha also participates in our community coffee-chats to meet more of the team working on open-source OCaml code and has used other OCaml community communication channels such as the Discord server.**
* Do you believe your Outreachy intern is putting in a full-time, 40 hours a week effort into the internship?
**Yes**
* Should your Outreachy intern be paid the initial $2000 payment?
**Yes**
* Questions about whether the intern needs an internship extension.
**Don't think so**
* Questions about whether the internship contract may need to be terminated.
**Don't think so**
* (The questions about internship extensions and terminations aren't needed for most internships, but our form asks them of all mentors.)

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## Midpoint Feedback

Mentor Support
* How long does it take for you to respond to your intern's request for help?
**1 hour**
* How long does it take for you to give feedback on your intern's contributions?
**1 hour**
* Please provide a paragraph describing what support you are providing as an Outreachy mentor. This will be shared with Outreachy organizers and your community coordinator.
**We have a regular weekly meetings in which we can discuss the project, OCaml, review code in real-time etc. We also make very clear that any question and asking for help is welcome and have conversations about them on slack. We sometimes write minimal examples to illustrate how a certain library could be used or a workflow could be followed.**
* How often does your intern ask for your help?
**On average once per day**
* What was the last date you were in contact with your intern?
**07/01/2021**
* How often does your intern submit a project contribution?
**Intern has not submitted a contribution**
* How long does it take for your intern to incorporate feedback and resubmit a contribution?
**1 day** That's what I estimate it would take her. It's not possible to leave this question blank.
* Please provide a paragraph describing your intern's progress on their project. This will only be shown to Outreachy organizers, your community coordinator, and the Software Freedom Conservancy accounting staff.
**Diksha has made incredible progress on her own prototype of the system. So far in addition to learning the OCaml programming language Diksha has interacted with our decentralised, peer-to-peer video-hosting instance, written JSON and YAML serialisers and deserialisers, made use of multiple http clients in OCaml, solved tricky problems with the Peertube API and is now beginning to integrate all of this work with our upstream repository as one of the first components to take real-world data and store it in the repository. The work thus far has been separate hence they have not technically contributed to the project.**
* Do you believe your Outreachy intern is putting in the minimum internship time commitment? (40 hours a week)
**Yes**
* What actions are you requesting Outreachy organizers to take, based on your feedback?
**Pay the midpoint intern stipend**

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