Git in Outreachy round 15?

Hi all,

I know we're just finishing up GSoC, but I want to get opinions on Git participating in the next round of Outreachy, which will be accepting interns over the next month or two.

Details and timelines are here:

  https://www.outreachy.org/

  https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/

For those not familiar with Outreachy, it's an internship program focused on providing mentorship and stipends to groups that are under-represented in Tech. The internship term is 3 months. Unlike other programs like GSoC, individual projects (rather than the program) cover the stipend, which is $6500 this round.

The big questions on whether we can make this happen are:

  1. Do we have mentor interest?

     I'm willing to mentor, but I'd like to hear whether other people
     are interested, as well. Either way I can take responsibility for
     the administrative bits.

     We could probably use some effort brushing up our project-ideas
     page. I've also considered whether it would make sense to do a
     "mixed bag" project where somebody works on multiple smaller
     projects, and we try to get them more involved in day-to-day
     project activities (after all, very few of us started working on
     Git with a dedicated 3-month project; people typically ease into it
     by fixing small problems, reviewing code, etc).

  2. Do we have the money (and want to spend it on this)?

     The Git project does have money to cover at least one intern.

     I'm looking into securing outside funding, so that we don't have to
     use project funds. If for whatever reason that doesn't happen, is
     this something we want to spend project money on?

     (My opinion is yes, but I'd like to hear what others in the
     community think).

-Peff

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

$6,500 is a bargain if we could guide an intern and help set the course to become a competent open source person. It would be nice if the intern stays in our community, but I do not even mind if the investment follows the intern elsewhere and enrich other open source projects.

It is a different matter if our mentor pool is rich enough to give sufficient support and training to the intern, but if you are volunteering to mentor, I wouldn't have any worries. I do agree with you that it would be a good idea to polish the project-ideas page.

Thanks.

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:19:56AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Agreed on all counts. I am still dotting i's and crossing t's, but I am pretty sure I have outside funding lined up anyway, though.

We actually need to put together a "landing page". The guidelines are at:

  https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/landing-page-requirements/

Timing-wise, the application period opens this Thursday. So I'll plan to work on it over the next day or two, but I'd appreciate any help that others can provide (even if I end up as the only available mentor).

-Peff

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

I am willing to co-mentor, but I prefer not to take care of administrative bits.

I agree that we should try "mixed bag" projects consisting in multiple smaller projects. It would be very interesting to see if it provides better results.

My opinion is yes too.

Is there something like the GSoC Mentor Summit? I think this is an interesting part of the GSoC and it could help motivate mentors if there was something like that.

Thanks for taking care of this, Christian.

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:06:34PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

Thanks. I've listed you as a mentor on the landing page at:

  https://git.github.io/Outreachy-15/

The instructions for mentors can be found at:

  https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/

I've put a few projects on the landing page, but feel free to modify it as you see fit.

No, I don't think that there is (though I'm pretty sure that there are some sessions about Outreachy at the Mentor Summit).

-Peff