On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:35 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:41:26AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > > I'm still working out funding details, but in the meantime we're signed > > up. Potential mentors should propose projects here: > > > > https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/git/ > > > > Sooner is better than later. We can technically submit projects up until > > the 24th, but student applications are open now, and have to be in by > > September 20th. > > [Adding everybody to the cc list who has been in the Outreachy > thread this year...] > > AFAICT we still have no proposed projects nor signed-up mentors. It seems that we now have only the 2 projects I proposed and only 1 signed-up mentor (me). It looks like Jonathan and Emily are reaching out to the Wireshark community to find a co-mentor which is great! So we might have another project and the associated mentors soon. Outreachy organizers have extended the mentor project submission deadline though. The new deadline is Sept. 29, 2020 at 4pm UTC. They also say that this deadline is a hard deadline, as the contribution period opens October 1, and they cannot add new projects after that date. > Interns are actively applying _now_, so we are likely missing out on (or > have already missed out on) applicants. > > If you're interested in mentoring, the time to propose is definitely > ASAP. Sure. By the way if you are interested in mentoring or co-mentoring, then signing-up is not definitive, you can always decide not to mentor at all later for any reason as long as an intern has not been selected yet. (Intern selection deadline is Nov. 9, 2020.)