Hi Charles, I maybe available to mentor. I am in Paris so closer to London. I have no date restriction for the weekends after April 9th yet. Thanks, Christian. On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Charles Bailey <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bloomberg would like to host a Git hackathon over a weekend in both New > York and London, towards the end of April or the beginning of May. > > Crucial to the success of the weekend will be having mentors available > in both locations who can guide people on the project. Mentors should > have some experience with developing for Git and should be familiar with > the process and guidelines around contributing. > > If you are interested in being a mentor or have further questions, then > please get in contact with me via email (either to this address or to > cbailey32@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) letting me know whether you are closer to New > York or London and if you have any date restrictions. > > Charles. > > --- > > Git was the first project for which we hosted an "Open Source Day" and > since then we've learned a lot and would like to revisit Git again. > > The event will involve volunteers who are usually competent programmers > but who don't necessarily have experience with contributing to Git, > working to contribute to the project over two days. Typically the type > of tasks tackled would include documentation improvements, test case > improvements and very simple bug fixes that have previously been > identified as "low hanging fruit".