Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort

From: Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2026, 11:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPSxiM8Jet5+4YvgSwCTK92fTmqLMj73nupY1eskWWO8i08fvw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD367UD=AomNVHEBnhY-2DQmqTNRcBX6NW7YZywWgOmxTQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,

Hello

Show 7 quoted lines

>
> 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.

I was already waiting for this.

>
> Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time

And to add to this, the intern later went on to co-mentor a GSOC intern this year. And also will be presenting his project in the coming Git conference. I was also a previous Outreachy intern myself. Because of this, I believe the program is very much valuable to the community.

Show 9 quoted lines

> 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 will like to be a co-mentor again this year.

Show 5 quoted lines

>
> I am likely to mentor and help as an Org Admin again this year unless
> we decide not to participate.
>
> Thanks.

Thanks.