This page is intended to document past and present mentorship programs, events, and participants. It should be an actively-maintained historical record presented in reverse chronological order.
Programs
- LFX Mentorship - this is a program of the Linux Foundation open to all projects and aimed at college students and early career professionals (or those looking to change careers). Open Horizon is one of the most popular mentorship programs in the Linux Foundation's LFX Mentorship program with 263 applicants and 10 graduates (so far).
- RCOS - this is a program of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Open Source, and is intended for students at that college.
- P-Tech - An IBM program for underserved, talented high schoolers.
- IBM JumpStart - this is an IBM-internal program.
- GaTech VSIP - this is a joint Georgia Tech and IBM effort to place students into active open-source projects.
If you have a program that should be added to this list, please contact the Outreach Working Group through their mailing list or chat room.
Mentorship Alums
If you have graduated from a previous Open Horizon mentorship, or are actively participating in an existing program, please consider joining the LinkedIn group and chat room.
Current
GaTech Summer 2024 VSIP
Participants:
Participants:
- Byungyeon (Harry) Kim - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Yasir Mohamed - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Javier Marin - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Jeff Gao - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Ishan Mukherjee - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Adam Ayan - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Hoang Tran - GitHub, LinkedIn
- William Lewis - GitHub, LinkedIn
IBM JumpStart (H2Pros) Oct, 2022 - Feb, 2023 Technical Challenge
Objective: Hill - H2Pros will design a means of collecting data from a variety of sensors wirelessly, over a long-range, and delivering the data to another Internet-connected device. The new design will include as few changes to the current design as possible.
Program Manager: Duncan Cowell
Technical Lead & Mentor: Jeff Lu
Participants:
- Matt Exworthy - Backend Engineer - SDN Overlay
- Daisy Ngo - ACS Database Support Engineer
- EmilyChan - Technical Support Engineer - Big Data Software
- Andrea Ochoa - Storage Support Engineer
- Ezra Berg - ACS Data Support Engineer
Technical Showcase: https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/6f1qq0aulhskwn9do515q2pw1p0s2wvt/file/1138749056058
P-Tech 3, Winter 2022 P-Tech Co-op
- Adam Lipson
- Availability:
- GitHub: https://github.com/Adamlip1334
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-lipson-/
- Angel Smythe
- Availability:
- Stephen Shaeffer
- Post schedule here
P-Tech 3, Spring 2023 P-Tech Co-op
Participants:
- Angel Smythe
- Availability:
- Timothy Stanford
- Availability:
- GitHub
- Availability:
- Adam Lipson
- Availability:
- GitHub: https://github.com/Adamlip1334
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-lipson-/
History
Fall and Winter 2022 Sixth Mentorship Cohort
RCOS Fall 2022 Term
Participants:
- Julian Chen - GitHub, LinkedIn
- William Li - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Mahi Pasarkar - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Cherry Bommu - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Oscar Li - GitHub, LinkedIn
Summer 2022 Fifth Mentorship Cohort
RCOS Summer 2022 Term
Participants:
Spring 2022 Fourth Mentorship Cohort
RCOS Spring 2022 Term
Participants:
IBM JumpStart 3 (placeholder name)
Participants:
- Name here - GitHub, LinkedIn
LFX Spring 2022 Term
Participants:
Fall 2021 Third Mentorship Cohort
RCOS Fall 2021 Term
Participants:
IBM JumpStart 2 (placeholder name)
Participants:
- Eli Latocki - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Marhababanu Chariwala - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Vineeth Vijayan - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Ben Zimmerman - GitHub, LinkedIn
LFX Fall 2021 Term
- Anushree Sabnis - GitHub, LinkedIn
- LinkedIn post about participating
- Unnati Chhabra - GitHub, LinkedIn
- LinkedIn post about joining this term
P-Tech 2 (Blue Screeners)
Participants:
- Ethan Pusey - GitHub, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanpusey/
- Luis Daniel Serrano - GitHub, https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-daniel-serrano-423ba028/
- Fredy Augusto Morales Vasquez Jr. - GitHub, https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredy-morales-vasquez-jr-71224a21a/
- Aaron Salmon - GitHub, https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-salmon-b0743121a/
- Jesus Leon - https://github.com/JL9866, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesus-l-69b01221a/
- Ynes Ineza - https://github.com/Yineza9, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ynes-ineza-9a596a219/
- Claudia Luna-Marcelino - GitHub, https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-luna-marcelino-5725781a3/
- Antonio Coates - GitHub, LinkedIn
P-Tech 1 (TechTerns)
Participants:
- Cristina Almazan - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Jordan Chesley - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Karina Reyes-Mendez - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Lysander Hernandez - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Victor Martinez - GitHub, LinkedIn
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Spring and Summer 2021 Second Mentorship Cohort
IBM JumpStart 1 (placeholder name)
Participants:
RCOS Summer 2021 Term
Participants:
Presentation:
- YouTube video (12 minute segment)
- Slides (PDF format)
P-Tech 1 (placeholder name)
Participants:
LFX Spring 2021 Term
Participants:
- Debabrata Mandal - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Megha Varshney - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Mustafa Al-Tekreeti - GitHub, LinkedIn
Quang Hiep Mai - GitHub, LinkedIn
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Fall 2020 First Mentorship Cohort
LFX Fall 2020 Term
Participants:
- Anukriti Jain - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Clement Ng - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Edidiong Etuk - GitHub, LinkedIn
- Han Gao - GitHub, LinkedIn
Webinar:
- YouTube video (53 minutes)
Blog:
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FAQ
- Where can I read more information about the LFX Mentorship program, including schedule?
The documentation for the program is found at https://docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/mentorship and covers those topics.