mentoring

CNCF Mentoring Initiatives

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) participates in a variety of mentoring programs. CNCF is a great place to spend time learning, coding, documenting, participating, and contributing. We look forward to your application and your project ideas!

This repository contains resources and information for the CNCF Mentoring Program. The program is designed to match experienced mentors with mentees who are interested in learning about cloud native technologies and contributing to open source projects in the ecosystem.

Resources

In this repository, you will find a number of resources to help you get started and make the most of your mentoring experience.

These include:

The mentors and mentees folders provide guidance on how to be an effective mentor or mentee. The programs folder provides a list of programs for mentees to work on with their mentors. This initiative is guided by the CNCF Mentoring Subproject. More information about meetings, communication and activities can be found in the cncf-toc-mentoring-subproject section of this repository.

Participation

Participation in the CNCF Mentoring Program is open to anyone who is interested in learning about cloud native technologies and contributing to open source projects in the ecosystem.

Contact If you have any questions or need help getting started, please reach out through our various communication channels.

Mentoring Programs

Program	Purpose	Details and historical data
LFX Mentorship	Mentoring initiative by the Linux Foundation	lfx-mentorship
Google Summer of Code	Mentoring program for open source beginners	summerofcode
Outreachy	Mentoring initiative for the communities traditionally underrepresented in tech	outreachy

Program Statistics

These are the number of successful internships per year for each program.

Year	Program	Mentorships	Total (per year)
2026	LFX Mentorship	124	129 (so far)
	GSoC	5
2025	LFX Mentorship	176	187
	GSoC	11
2024	LFX Mentorship	134	147
	GSoC	11
	Outreachy	2
2023	LFX Mentorship	127	144
	GSoC	14
	GSoD	2
	Outreachy	1
2022	LFX Mentorship	89	108
	GSoC	16
	GSoD	3
2021	LFX Mentorship	73	94
	GSoC	16
	GSoD	4
	Outreachy	1
2020	LFX Mentorship (CommunityBridge)	56	77
	GSoC	16
	GSoD	4
	Outreachy	1
2019	CommunityBridge	4	20
	GSoC	15
	Outreachy	1
2018	GSoC	7	8
	Outreachy	1
2017	GSoC	6	8
	Outreachy	2

Code of Conduct

Please note that CNCF Mentoring programs follow the CNCF Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Thank you for participating in the CNCF Mentoring Program!