From: Kaartic Sivaraam Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:08:29 GMT Subject: Re: Git project and GSoC 2026 Message-ID: <35E56A79-FD65-4CBF-9A35-BCFB9A169BFA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Hi Christian, Thank you for initiating the discussion. On 16/01/26 16:36, Christian Couder wrote: > > The application period for mentoring organizations to participate in > GSoC 2026 is from January 19 to February 3. Let's try to anticipate a > bit and decide soon if the Git project wants to participate. > Indeed. > If we want to participate, we need (co-)mentors, org-admins, projects > and micro-projects ideas, and we need to update existing pages or > create new ones on the Git Developer Pages (git.github.io) website (or > on git-scm.org if we want to switch this to it now). Please chime in > if you are interested. > I would be glad to help as an org-Admin this year too. I could act as a fallback mentor in case any mentor / co-mentor becomes unavailable during a particular period of the program. I also Cc-ed Chandra Pratap as they expressed interest to be a co-mentor before. > About (co-)mentors and org-admins, Karthik, Justin, Siddharth and me > have already expressed their interest in (co-)mentoring in internal > GitLab discussions. I am willing to be an org-admin too. > Wonderful to see that we already have 5 potential mentors! Keep them coming! Also, it would be nice to hear potential idea suggestions too. The more the merrier :-) > The Git team at GitLab is also willing to manage Slack discussions > channels for (co-)mentors, org-admins and helpers, and then for > accepted contributors too, in the same way as for GSoC 2025. > Cool! -- Sivaraam