Git in Outreachy December-March?

Git in Outreachy December-March?

[Jeff King]

As some of you may recall, we signed up to participate in Outreachy for
the May-August session, but did not end up selecting an intern. The
original thread with details is here:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/20160308224625.GA29922@sigill.intra.peff.net/

There's another session that runs from December to March. If we want to
participate, we need to sign up in the next few days.

I'm happy to act as admin. We will need a few things:

  - to arrange funding for the stipend. GitHub offered to cover this
    last time, and if we are interested, I can see if this is still the
    case. We can also cover it out of the Git project money.

  - mentor volunteers. This is similar in scope to GSoC, but I don't
    want to just assume that people who volunteered for GSoC would still
    be available

  - projects. We can pull from the ideas that were not selected for the
    2016 GSoC, but we may need to update or add to it.

-Peff

Re: Git in Outreachy December-March?

[Pranit Bauva]

Probably off-topic.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> As some of you may recall, we signed up to participate in Outreachy for
> the May-August session, but did not end up selecting an intern. The
> original thread with details is here:
>
>   http://public-inbox.org/git/20160308224625.GA29922@sigill.intra.peff.net/
>
> There's another session that runs from December to March. If we want to
> participate, we need to sign up in the next few days.
>
> I'm happy to act as admin. We will need a few things:
>
>   - to arrange funding for the stipend. GitHub offered to cover this
>     last time, and if we are interested, I can see if this is still the
>     case. We can also cover it out of the Git project money.
>
>   - mentor volunteers. This is similar in scope to GSoC, but I don't
>     want to just assume that people who volunteered for GSoC would still
>     be available
>
>   - projects. We can pull from the ideas that were not selected for the
>     2016 GSoC, but we may need to update or add to it.

I have a few friends who too did GSoC along with me but in different
orgs. Their orgs have a separate channel (slack or IRC) for
GSoC/Outreachy communications. In that channel is that all potential
mentors are added and students too are pointed to it. In that channel
the very basic doubts are covered. Let's say I am online and probably
the student's mentor is currently unavailable, so he/she can post a
trivial doubt there for someone to respond quickly. It takes off a
little load from the list and the mentor as well. I am aware that
there exists a channel named #git-devel but unfortunately its not
really active. I will be wiling to help other students with their
early days!

These days a lot of my fellow students don't really use IRC for
communication and see you can see there were really less number of
people inquiring  about GSoC in #git-devel. We can prefer slack or any
other alternative.

Regards,
Pranit Bauva

Re: Git in Outreachy December-March?

[Christian Couder]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> I'm happy to act as admin. We will need a few things:
>
>   - to arrange funding for the stipend. GitHub offered to cover this
>     last time, and if we are interested, I can see if this is still the
>     case. We can also cover it out of the Git project money.
>
>   - mentor volunteers. This is similar in scope to GSoC, but I don't
>     want to just assume that people who volunteered for GSoC would still
>     be available

I would be happy to co-mentor as well as for GSoC.

>   - projects. We can pull from the ideas that were not selected for the
>     2016 GSoC, but we may need to update or add to it.

Yeah, maybe we could also update the micro-project page
(https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/SoC-2016-Microprojects.md).