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Re: Git in Outreachy Dec-Mar?

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 2, 2018, 08:43 UTC
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 09:37:59AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
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> > I also think it doesn't need to be the mentor's responsibility to find
> > the funding. That can be up to an "org admin", and I don't think it
> > should be too big a deal (I had no trouble getting funding from GitHub
> > last year, and I don't expect any this year; I just didn't want to start
> > that process until I knew we were serious about participating).
> 
> My experience so far with org admins who don't mentor is that they are
> likely to loose interest in the program over time and stop doing much
> (which is natural, I don't blame anyone). This is what happened with
> GSoC org admins (who don't mentor), so most of the admin work now
> falls back on mentors (org admins that mentor).
> 
> That's why I fear that in a few years the burden of finding funds for
> Outreachy might fall back on the mentors too.

Yeah, I agree that might eventually happen. I think if there are admins willing to look for funds, though, we are better off saving our project money for now.

-Peff
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