Re: GSoC and Outreachy Summer 2020?

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2020, 10:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3UewcZ3oid_SiUYuFEO49JTzaSigHDTP8OPs2yh6s6zA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200204163716.GA7308@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:37 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 05:11:20PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
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> > > As with https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/General-Microproject-Information.md
> > > the idea is to not have separate documents for each year and each
> > > program (GSoC or Outreachy), but rather point people to the same
> > > document that we should update regularly.
> >
> > While at it, I just applied on behalf of Git to the GSoC 2020 and I
> > sent invite to possible Organization Administrators. I am one of the
> > admins already but we need another person to accept the invite before
> > tomorrow as they require at least 2 admins. This is the only thing
> > left we need to apply.
> >
> > The information I used to apply is in:
> > https://git.github.io/SoC-2020-Org-Application/
>
> Thank you for getting this going! I'm happy to be the second admin (and
> am signed up now).

Thanks!

For some time I have been thinking about trying to get more former GSoC students and Outreachy interns helping us with mentoring. Here is a pull request that could help, but I would be happy to get opinion before merging it:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/414

(It adds a note about giving back and mentoring to https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/General-Application-Information.md)

Best, Christian.