Re: Number of Outreachy interns and co-mentors

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 27, 2019, 04:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20190927044304.GA24011@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0gQU4JKneKc6HLxT6NutzZrxDVqWKDSeOx1ZYDfMkWRw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 03:12:15PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> On https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/#git it looks
> like we will only have 1 intern as the title of our section is "Git -
> 1 intern". I wonder if it's because only funding for 1 intern has been
> secured or if there is another reason.

Right, it's because of the funding promise.

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> Also I am not sure how people can register that they are ok to
> co-mentor one of the project, but it looks like the person who
> registered a project can invite co-mentors. So I think it would be
> nice if people, who would be ok to co-mentor, could tell which
> projects they would be ok to co-mentor, so that we all know and that
> they can be invited to co-mentor on the site.
> 
> It would be great if we could have 2 (co-)mentors per project and it
> would likely help getting funding for all the interns.

Yeah, I agree it would be nice to have that in the system if there's going to be co-mentoring. I don't know how the interface for it works, though (and I think the mentors see different screens than I do).

-Peff