Probably off-topic. On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > 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