From: Phillip Wood Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:10:14 GMT Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 19/09/2020 09:12, Christian Couder wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:35 PM Jeff King wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:41:26AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: >> >>> I'm still working out funding details, but in the meantime we're signed >>> up. Potential mentors should propose projects here: >>> >>> https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/ >>> >>> Sooner is better than later. We can technically submit projects up until >>> the 24th, but student applications are open now, and have to be in by >>> September 20th. >> >> [Adding everybody to the cc list who has been in the Outreachy >> thread this year...] >> >> AFAICT we still have no proposed projects nor signed-up mentors. > > It seems that we now have only the 2 projects I proposed and only 1 > signed-up mentor (me). I've been accepted as a co-mentor on the rebase project now. Best Wishes Phillip > It looks like Jonathan and Emily are reaching out to the Wireshark > community to find a co-mentor which is great! So we might have another > project and the associated mentors soon. > > Outreachy organizers have extended the mentor project submission > deadline though. The new deadline is Sept. 29, 2020 at 4pm UTC. They > also say that this deadline is a hard deadline, as the contribution > period opens October 1, and they cannot add new projects after that > date. > >> Interns are actively applying _now_, so we are likely missing out on (or >> have already missed out on) applicants. >> >> If you're interested in mentoring, the time to propose is definitely >> ASAP. > > Sure. By the way if you are interested in mentoring or co-mentoring, > then signing-up is not definitive, you can always decide not to mentor > at all later for any reason as long as an intern has not been selected > yet. (Intern selection deadline is Nov. 9, 2020.) >