Mentors sign the mentorship agreement as an individual. A generic version
of the agreement can be found here:
https://github.com/outreachy/website/blob/master/docs/mentor-agreement.md

Sage Sharp
Outreachy Organizer

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:58 PM Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought it was individuals signing the mentor agreements at least, though
> it’s been a while since I filled that out.
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 20:55, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 9:07 PM Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:00 AM Griselda Cuevas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > What's coming next:
> > > > - Katia, Awasum and Matt will have full autonomy to work as the ASF
> > > > outreachy coordinators. I've asked them to share updates with the
> > committee
> > > > weekly from now until we launch
> > > >
> > >
> > > One small nitpick, and it could be me misinterpreting the language;
> > >
> > > "full autonomy" can't be delegated to a non-officer of ASF. Any
> > commitment
> > > on behalf of the ASF requires an officer, and that it is within the
> > > officer's mandate.
> > >
> > > I hope/assume that you mean, that they will do a lot of the work, keep
> > you
> > > in the loop and any official agreement/commitment on behalf of ASF is
> in
> > > your hands, preferably consulted with President (ultimately responsible
> > for
> > > a bad decision) and possibly helpful (ex-)Directors.
> >
> > The closest parallel I see is that VP Conferences (Rich) has
> > designated a number of (non-officer) Event Coordinators, each of which
> > is the key decision maker for that event.  If coodinators are
> > producing weekly reports I'm confident that the oversight requirements
> > will be amply met, particularly given the number of current and
> > previous Directors on this committee.
> >
> > Signing authority could conceivably be a concern, but Outreachy only
> > requires interns and mentors to sign agreements.  This does bring up
> > an interesting question: are mentors signing as individuals or on
> > behalf of the ASF.  Perhaps someone could reach to Mozilla to see how
> > they handle this?
> >
> > - Sam Ruby
> >
> --
> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
>

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