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What “octernship” means: https://education.github.com/students/octernships https://education.github.com/students/octernships Basically a GitHub built a platfor
by munchbunny 4y ago
What “octernship” means: https://education.github.com/students/octernships https://education.github.com/students/octernships
Basically a GitHub built a platform for students to get paid to do contract projects with mentorship attached. I think it’s interesting.
I read most of the way down the post waiting for any sort of explanation of what an “octernship” is, but the post mostly just says the word a lot and sings praises. In fairness it links to the explanation page, but I would hope a launch post has even the barest of short introductions of the platform.
- lol768 4y agoSo similar to GSoC, but limited to some countries which I guess have been under-represented to date?
- runnerup 4y agoOf note is that it's only offered in LCOL countries. It doesn't look like Americans can participate in this, so the advertised default of "$500/mo" is really fairly significant in most of the participating countries.
- gedy 4y ago> Enrolled in an institution with work eligibility in one of the ten countries: India, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Mexico, Nigeria, and Colombia. Feels wrong to limit like this. Yeah GH/MS you care so much about people, definitely not a way to encourage outsourcing.
- nateb2022 4y agoAnd there are many many low income students attending community colleges who would benefit tremendously from a program like this.