Re: Git in Outreachy December-March?

From: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 2, 2016, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFZEwPNDScR-+KGEWS__fAMrdKupe+ibKLFMceBMf5pqJ2kjYw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160902090247.b5gtui75hiwococc@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Probably off-topic.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> As some of you may recall, we signed up to participate in Outreachy for
> the May-August session, but did not end up selecting an intern. The
> original thread with details is here:
>
>   http://public-inbox.org/git/20160308224625.GA29922@sigill.intra.peff.net/
>
> There's another session that runs from December to March. If we want to
> participate, we need to sign up in the next few days.
>
> I'm happy to act as admin. We will need a few things:
>
>   - to arrange funding for the stipend. GitHub offered to cover this
>     last time, and if we are interested, I can see if this is still the
>     case. We can also cover it out of the Git project money.
>
>   - mentor volunteers. This is similar in scope to GSoC, but I don't
>     want to just assume that people who volunteered for GSoC would still
>     be available
>
>   - projects. We can pull from the ideas that were not selected for the
>     2016 GSoC, but we may need to update or add to it.

I have a few friends who too did GSoC along with me but in different orgs. Their orgs have a separate channel (slack or IRC) for GSoC/Outreachy communications. In that channel is that all potential mentors are added and students too are pointed to it. In that channel the very basic doubts are covered. Let's say I am online and probably the student's mentor is currently unavailable, so he/she can post a trivial doubt there for someone to respond quickly. It takes off a little load from the list and the mentor as well. I am aware that there exists a channel named #git-devel but unfortunately its not really active. I will be wiling to help other students with their early days!

These days a lot of my fellow students don't really use IRC for communication and see you can see there were really less number of people inquiring about GSoC in #git-devel. We can prefer slack or any other alternative.

Regards, Pranit Bauva