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Mar 22, 2024, 12:51:09 PMMar 22

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what are different ways to communicate with mentor

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 9:51 AM kannan.s <kannana...@gmail.com> wrote:

what are different ways to communicate with mentor

At this stage of the program you should reach out to the organization using the preferred contact methods listed on their page on the GSoC site. If there is a Contributor Guidance link on their page they will have very specific instructions on how they want you to contact their org. Most orgs have a chat channel or a mailing list they want people to reach out to.

Remember right now each org is receiving dozens, and even hundreds, of inquiries from potential GSoC contributors so they have a preferred process in place of how they want to manage all of the incoming questions.

You should not be trying to contact a particular mentor at this point in the program unless the org's instructions specifically direct you to a mentor's personal contact information for a given project idea (which is rare).

If people reached out to mentors directly at this point they would receive significant spam and that is not okay.