Re: Git in Outreachy Dec-Mar?

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:16:49AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

>> I can also look at getting outside funds.
>>
>> My opinion though is that it is probably better if the Git project can
>> use its own fund for this, as it makes it easier for possible mentors
>> if they don't need to look at getting outside funds.
>
> I disagree. An internship costs more than we generally take in over the
> course of a year. So we would eventually run out of money doing this.

I think we would have time to figure out a way to get more funds
before that happens.

> I also think it doesn't need to be the mentor's responsibility to find
> the funding. That can be up to an "org admin", and I don't think it
> should be too big a deal (I had no trouble getting funding from GitHub
> last year, and I don't expect any this year; I just didn't want to start
> that process until I knew we were serious about participating).

My experience so far with org admins who don't mentor is that they are
likely to loose interest in the program over time and stop doing much
(which is natural, I don't blame anyone). This is what happened with
GSoC org admins (who don't mentor), so most of the admin work now
falls back on mentors (org admins that mentor).

That's why I fear that in a few years the burden of finding funds for
Outreachy might fall back on the mentors too.

> So if you (or anybody else) wants to mentor, please focus on the project
> list and application materials.

Ok, I will do that. Thanks for taking care of the funding.