Outreachy Mentors Wanted

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I’m excited to share that the OCaml community has secured funding for the next round of Outreachy. Thanks to Jane Street and Tarides, we have funding for 3 mentees in the next cohort of Outreachy internships alongside 3/4 mentors. We are actively seeking mentors and projects for the OCaml community. If you haven’t already, please do read our previous post about becoming an Outreachy mentor: Become an Outreachy Mentor: support the growth and diversity of the OCaml community.

If you have any questions please reach out to me directly or here on this thread. To sign up, please use this link to the Outreachy signup page. If you would like to co-mentor (i.e. support a project but not lead that project), let people know by commenting on this thread.

Thanks!

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Sorry for the naive question, but are the periods the same as those mentioned in the post? (From December to March?)

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Not naive at all! Yes that is correct, the important dates are:

  • Mentor sign up by September 26th 2025
  • Contribution Phase: October
  • Internship: December 2025 to March 2026
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Just a quick reminder that the deadline for mentors to sign up if fast approaching! If you have any questions please do reach out. I plan to submit a project in the coming days related to geospatial programming in OCaml (see geocaml) and I would happily have a co-mentor. If anyone is interested in co-mentoring, please do message me.

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I have submitted two projects for this round:

  1. Create an OxCaml backend for Raven
  2. Create a monitoring dashboard for Raven

For 1., the title is descriptive enough: the goal is to implement a new OxCaml backend for Nx (raven/nx at main · raven-ml/raven · GitHub) - see boilerplate at raven/dev/nx-oxcaml at main · raven-ml/raven · GitHub.

For 2., the goal is to implement a terminal based monitoring dashboard, equivalent to Tensorboard https://www.tensorflow.org/tensorboard, to visualize training runs with Kaun (raven/kaun at main · raven-ml/raven · GitHub).

I am looking for co-mentors. With co-mentor, we’ll be able to mentor both projects. If you were interested in contributing to Raven, this is another great way to get started!

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