From: Kaartic Sivaraam Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:20:42 GMT Subject: Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort Message-ID: <4de9645c-f067-45bb-8168-1f660e11eb8d@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Hi Christian, On 8/26/26 16:25, Christian Couder wrote: > 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