Hi all, TL;DR: +1, but also with reservations about GSoC
I definitely support participating in Outreachy, but I am not sure about doing it during the summer season in parallel with GSoC. We have applied to GSoC, and right now we have 25+ project ideas, 4 org admins and 25+ potential mentors: https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2019/project-ideas/ . Tyler is right that we could benefit from bringing in more mentors and project ideas, but I believe we are okay with the current state. We already have a dozen of active students investigating projects and doing contributions. If we get accepted, I believe GSoC will be pretty big this year. Being compared to GSoC, Outreachy offers opportunities for non-student contributors to participate. This is a main differentiator from the community outreach standpoint. OTOH GSoC is much more cost-effective than Outreachy for the community. In GSoC we actually get money to support travel grants for students and mentors instead of paying 5K+ USD like it happens in Outreachy. Maybe it makes sense to wait till GSoC announcements on Feb 26 before applying. IMHO we should keep participating in Outreachy anyway, but, if we get accepted to GSoC, we should firstly target students who are not eligible to participate in GSoC due to any reasons. BR, Oleg P.S: Unfortunately Outreachy is based in US and prohibits potential students from embargoed regions (Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Sudan), hence here there is no difference from GSoC unfortunately . Also, non-US national minorities are not eligible. That's a shame for such program -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/4b3be159-56f3-47d5-9c61-757ec9ff8d5b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
