From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:33:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy?
Message-ID: <CAJoAoZnHk9shE0D4UHVhd3zTqDBmOeCHvf0ukjEt5k5B6u=jcQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YTGLLQCvlnT17jo8@nand.local>

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 7:41 PM Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@github.com> wrote:
>
> Are we interested in participating in the December 2021 round of
> Outreachy? September 3rd (tomorrow at 4pm UTC) is the initial community
> application deadline.
>
> Christian, Peff, and I discussed off-list that we would each try to pull
> together funding for one intern from GitHub and GitLab respectively.
>
> If we're interested, the project submission deadline is September 23rd
> [1]. By then, we'd need:
>
>   - Volunteers to act as mentors

I'd be happy to mentor actively during the application stage, but I
don't have bandwidth to host/mentor an accepted intern this term. I
would also be happy to be CC'd, pinged, and so on on any reviews from
interns which aren't receiving enough love.

>   - Updates to our applicant materials on git.github.io (project ideas,
>     as well as potential microprojects).

Will bring this up with Google folks today and see if we've got any ideas.

Thanks for mentioning it, Taylor.