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Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

Subject: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

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12 messages between Aug 16, 2023 and Oct 29, 2023.

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Taylor Blau· Aug 16, 2023, 01:07 UTC · lore

Christian and I got an email from the Outreachy organizers asking if the Git project is interested in participating this year. Last year we submitted projects, but ultimately did not select anybody from the program.

I think it would be good to participate in this year's December cohort. September 1, 2023 at 4pm UTC is the initial community application deadline.

If we're interested, the project submission deadline is September 29th. By then, we'd need:

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

If folks are interested, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions about participating, and overall logistics of the program.

Thanks, Taylor

Christian Couder· Aug 18, 2023, 15:10 UTC · re: Taylor Blau · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

(Adding a few people who could be interested in helping with this in Cc:)

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 3:07 AM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

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> Christian and I got an email from the Outreachy organizers asking if
> the Git project is interested in participating this year. Last year we
> submitted projects, but ultimately did not select anybody from the
> program.

Actually we actually selected someone and a backup person in case the first person was not eligible to participate, but unfortunately it happened that both of them weren't eligible. And we learned that after the selection process was closed.

The year before we had no applicants for some reason.

> I think it would be good to participate in this year's December cohort.
> September 1, 2023 at 4pm UTC is the initial community application
> deadline.

I agree it would be nice, and I am willing to mentor, or if possible co-mentor, someone.

> If we're interested, the project submission deadline is September 29th.
> By then, we'd need:
>
>   - Volunteers to act as mentors

I wonder if we need a few Org Admins too.

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

Yeah, I can start working on the applicant material after my current vacation.

> If folks are interested, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions
> about participating, and overall logistics of the program.

Thanks, Christian.

Taylor Blau· Aug 18, 2023, 15:17 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 05:10:25PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

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> (Adding a few people who could be interested in helping with this in Cc:)
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 3:07 AM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Christian and I got an email from the Outreachy organizers asking if
> > the Git project is interested in participating this year. Last year we
> > submitted projects, but ultimately did not select anybody from the
> > program.
>
> Actually we actually selected someone and a backup person in case the
> first person was not eligible to participate, but unfortunately it
> happened that both of them weren't eligible. And we learned that after
> the selection process was closed.
>
> The year before we had no applicants for some reason.

Ah, that's right. Thanks for jogging my memory!

> >   - Updates to our applicant materials on git.github.io (project ideas,
> >     as well as potential microprojects).
>
> Yeah, I can start working on the applicant material after my current vacation.

Enjoy your vacation :-).

Thanks, Taylor

Kaartic Sivaraam· Aug 22, 2023, 06:14 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On 18 August 2023 8:40:25 pm IST, Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

>(Adding a few people who could be interested in helping with this in Cc:)
>

Thanks, Christian!

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>> I think it would be good to participate in this year's December cohort.
>> September 1, 2023 at 4pm UTC is the initial community application
>> deadline.
>
>I agree it would be nice, and I am willing to mentor, or if possible
>co-mentor, someone.
>
>> If we're interested, the project submission deadline is September 29th.
>> By then, we'd need:
>>
>>   - Volunteers to act as mentors

Depending on the projects that we'll be proposing, I may be able to co-mentor for one. Though, my timeline looks uncertain now. So, I'm unsure about it. I should be able to mention for sure after before the mentor sign-up deadline.

> I wonder if we need a few Org Admins too.

Regardless, I should be able to help us an Org Admin if there's a need :-)

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>>   - Updates to our applicant materials on git.github.io (project ideas,
>>     as well as potential microprojects).
>
>Yeah, I can start working on the applicant material after my current vacation.
>

That's great, Christian. Let me know in case you need any help with it.

>> If folks are interested, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions
>> about participating, and overall logistics of the program.
>

I'm guessing the mentor sign up deadline aligns with the project submission timeline. Could you kindly confirm the same, Taylor?

-- Sivaraam

Taylor Blau· Aug 23, 2023, 18:40 UTC · re: Kaartic Sivaraam · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 11:44:41AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

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> > > If folks are interested, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions
> > > about participating, and overall logistics of the program.
>
> I'm guessing the mentor sign up deadline aligns with the project submission
> timeline. Could you kindly confirm the same, Taylor?

I couldn't find any specific mention of it on the schedule[1], but AFAIR we can add mentors at any time after the Git project confirms its participation.

Thanks, Taylor

[1]: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/

Kaartic Sivaraam· Aug 29, 2023, 17:44 UTC · re: Taylor Blau · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On 24/08/23 00:10, Taylor Blau wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 11:44:41AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
>>>> If folks are interested, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions
>>>> about participating, and overall logistics of the program.
>>
>> I'm guessing the mentor sign up deadline aligns with the project submission
>> timeline. Could you kindly confirm the same, Taylor?
> 
> I couldn't find any specific mention of it on the schedule[1], but AFAIR
> we can add mentors at any time after the Git project confirms its
> participation.
>

Ok Taylor. Thanks for the information!

BTW, I think the deadline to sign up for Outreachy is approaching soon I believe. The community page [1] seems to indicate that we haven't signed up yet. Given that there was an interest in us participating in Outreachy, I just wanted to check whether we've signed up our community ?

[[ References ]]

[1]: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/

-- 
Sivaraam

Taylor Blau· Aug 29, 2023, 17:54 UTC · re: Kaartic Sivaraam · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:14:38PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

> BTW, I think the deadline to sign up for Outreachy is approaching soon I
> believe. The community page [1] seems to indicate that we haven't signed up
> yet. Given that there was an interest in us participating in Outreachy, I
> just wanted to check whether we've signed up our community ?

Indeed. I was waiting to see if interested parties had the resources to sponsor an Outreachy student, since we have to pay Outreachy for each student we accept.

If you (or others) are interested in mentoring but don't have a way to pay Outreachy, we could certainly discuss allocating some of the project's funds to support one or two students.

Thanks, Taylor

Christian Couder· Aug 29, 2023, 20:38 UTC · re: Taylor Blau · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 7:54 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 11:14:38PM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:
> > BTW, I think the deadline to sign up for Outreachy is approaching soon I
> > believe. The community page [1] seems to indicate that we haven't signed up
> > yet. Given that there was an interest in us participating in Outreachy, I
> > just wanted to check whether we've signed up our community ?
>
> Indeed. I was waiting to see if interested parties had the resources to
> sponsor an Outreachy student, since we have to pay Outreachy for each
> student we accept.

It will take some time before I can confirm whether or not GitLab is willing to sponsor one Outreachy intern.

> If you (or others) are interested in mentoring but don't have a way to
> pay Outreachy, we could certainly discuss allocating some of the
> project's funds to support one or two students.

I clicked on the "Community will participate" button, but this leads to a page saying "Outreachy internship funding is required" and where we have to list the sponsors we have, the amount of funds they are willing to sponsor, if the funding is secured and the funding decision date. I think I will fill this out saying that we have 3 (potential) sponsors: the Git project, GitHub and GitLab. I will not check the "funding is secured" checkbox and say that the decision date is October 5 (so just one day before the deadline for "Project list finalized"). This will leave time to find out if we can indeed sponsor at least one intern.

Let me know if that works for both of you.

By the way, Kaartic, do you still want to be an org admin? And Taylor are you Ok with Kaartic being an org admin?

It seems that I received an email asking me to confirm Kaartic as an org admin, but I couldn't confirm then and later when clicked to the link to confirm it looked like it wasn't possible anymore to confirm that. So not sure what happened, but maybe we could try again to register you as an org admin.

Best, Christian.

Kaartic Sivaraam· Sep 2, 2023, 06:06 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On 30 August 2023 2:08:45 am IST, Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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>On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 7:54 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
>>
>
>It will take some time before I can confirm whether or not GitLab is
>willing to sponsor one Outreachy intern.
>
>> If you (or others) are interested in mentoring but don't have a way to
>> pay Outreachy, we could certainly discuss allocating some of the
>> project's funds to support one or two students.
>
>I clicked on the "Community will participate" button, but this leads
>to a page saying "Outreachy internship funding is required" and where
>we have to list the sponsors we have, the amount of funds they are
>willing to sponsor, if the funding is secured and the funding decision
>date. I think I will fill this out saying that we have 3 (potential)
>sponsors: the Git project, GitHub and GitLab. I will not check the
>"funding is secured" checkbox and say that the decision date is
>October 5 (so just one day before the deadline for "Project list
>finalized"). This will leave time to find out if we can indeed sponsor
>at least one intern.
>
>Let me know if that works for both of you.
>

Great. Thanks for signing Git up for the program, Christian!

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>By the way, Kaartic, do you still want to be an org admin? And Taylor
>are you Ok with Kaartic being an org admin?
>
>It seems that I received an email asking me to confirm Kaartic as an
>org admin, but I couldn't confirm then and later when clicked to the
>link to confirm it looked like it wasn't possible anymore to confirm
>that. So not sure what happened, but maybe we could try again to
>register you as an org admin.
>

I actually hit that button to become a community coordinator without confirming here about the need.

I would be able to help as a community coordinator for this round. I'm not sure about being able to mentor, yet.

That said, I believe both of you would do a great job as coordinators for the Git community. So, if you feel like you both could manage without help, that's totally fine. I'll check on the project list once it's available and explore the feasibility of mentoring :-)

Thanks, Sivaraam

Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Taylor Blau· Sep 21, 2023, 20:46 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 10:38:45PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> By the way, Kaartic, do you still want to be an org admin? And Taylor
> are you Ok with Kaartic being an org admin?

Sorry that this dropped off of my queue. FWIW, no issues from me.

Thanks, Taylor

Christian Couder· Sep 22, 2023, 06:19 UTC · re: Taylor Blau · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 10:46 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 10:38:45PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
> > By the way, Kaartic, do you still want to be an org admin? And Taylor
> > are you Ok with Kaartic being an org admin?
>
> Sorry that this dropped off of my queue. FWIW, no issues from me.

Taylor, thanks for your answer!

Kaartic, if you want to be org admin, just ask on the Outreachy web site and we will accept your request.

Thanks, Christian.

Kaartic Sivaraam· Oct 29, 2023, 18:23 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: Git in Outreachy? (December, 2023)

Hi Christian and Taylor,

Excuse the huge delay in my response. I got too pre-occuppied with some other commitments.

On 22/09/23 11:49, Christian Couder wrote:

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>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 10:38:45PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
>>> By the way, Kaartic, do you still want to be an org admin? And Taylor
>>> are you Ok with Kaartic being an org admin?
>>
>> Sorry that this dropped off of my queue. FWIW, no issues from me.
> 
> Taylor, thanks for your answer!
> 
> Kaartic, if you want to be org admin, just ask on the Outreachy web
> site and we will accept your request.
>

Thanks for the offer!

I think we're very close to the end of the contribution period of Outreachy. I think the contribution period is the on that would've needed significant participation of an Org Admin. I'm not sure if there's anything I could contribute to much in coming days. If there's anything I could help with, kindly let me know. I'll be glad to help :-)

-- 
Sivaraam