Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 2, 2026, 13:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4de9645c-f067-45bb-8168-1f660e11eb8d@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD367UD=AomNVHEBnhY-2DQmqTNRcBX6NW7YZywWgOmxTQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Christian,

On 8/26/26 16:25, Christian Couder wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
> 
> Open Source communities have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm UTC to
> sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in Outreachy's
> December 2026 cohort (see
> https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/).
> And (co)mentors have until that same time to submit project
> descriptions.
> 
> Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time
> GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but
> last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the
> Git project itself.
> 
> Let us know if you want to help as a (co)mentor or an Org Admin, if
> you know a company that would sponsor an intern, if you have ideas for
> projects that we could propose, or if you have an opinion on Git
> participating again this year, or on how we should select interns,
> etc.
>

I too believe it would be great if Git could participate in Outreachy this year.

I would be willing to co-mentor a project this year. I could also help as an org admin if needed.

Also, Pablo was interested to volunteer as a co-mentor for Outreachy. I've added him in Cc.

-- Sivaraam