Re: Git in Outreachy?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 15, 2020, 18:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20200915180219.GA2861525@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <12c349f3-aeee-7e44-08fd-ae03b3f16dab@gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:25:08PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

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> >> I'm still working out funding details, but in the meantime we're signed
> >> up. Potential mentors should propose projects here:
> >>
> >>   https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/
> >>
> >> Sooner is better than later. We can technically submit projects up until
> >> the 24th, but student applications are open now, and have to be in by
> >> September 20th.
> > 
> > [Adding everybody to the cc list who has been in the Outreachy
> > thread this year...]
> > 
> > AFAICT we still have no proposed projects nor signed-up mentors.
> 
> Just to ensure I didn't miss anything, a person who's signing up as a
> mentor for an organization needs to propose a project or wait for one to
> be proposed, right? Or is there some other way to express interest in
> mentoring without proposing a project?

Right, mentors propose the projects they're willing to mentor.

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> I ask this because I would be willing to sign up as a co-mentor for a
> project in the organization but don't have any project proposals in
> mind. I only see a way to "submit a project proposal" in the following
> page:
> 
>     https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/

Yeah, you'd have to either find the person you want to co-mentor with and work on a proposal with them, or wait for somebody to propose something and then ask if you could join them as a co-mentor.

-Peff