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Announce participation change to past GSoC/Outreachy interns and mentors
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We have lifted the Wikimedia participation limit of only one GSoC/Outreachy internship per student, considering:

  1. Repeating configuration of teams would ensure continued work in ongoing projects
  2. Google set a limitation of maximum of 3 times as a GSoC student in their lifetime
  3. More long term contributors and quality work
  4. Discussions in T124392

Few things to note:

  • Previous intern who had participated in one Outreachy project can still participate in 2 GSoC rounds with Wikimedia, but not three ( which would total 4 internships ).

Contacting past mentors and students need to happen asap as the program is drawing near. Some checkpoints:

  • announce in Wikitech-l and other mailing lists
  • create conpherence for previous mentors and students ( separate ? )

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Someone should be mailing this to the Mailing List ? @Qgil, should I ?

Someone should be mailing this to the Mailing List ? @Qgil, should I ?

That would be welcome.

Announcement done on last year's GSoC/Outreachy conpherence Z30.

I've sent out an email to previous participants whose emails I managed to dig out from past project pages and user pages. I think this is sufficient to close this ticket.

I've sent out an email to previous participants whose emails I managed to dig out from past project pages and user pages. I think this is sufficient to close this ticket.

Thanks!
Closing as I think we've communicated appropriately the above change in participation.

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