README.md

# Term 03 - 2024 September - November

Status: Planning

Mentorship duration - three months (12 weeks - full-time schedule)

### Timeline

| activity                                                                                                     | date                                                                                |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|   
| project proposals                                                                                            | Jul 3 - Jul 23 5:00 PM PDT                                                          |
| mentee applications open                                                                                     | Jul 24 - Aug 6 5:00 PM PDT                                                          |
| application review/admission decisions                                                                       | Aug 7 - Aug 20 5:00 PM PDT                                                          |
| selection notifications                                                                                      | Aug 27, 2024 5:00 PM PDT                                                            |
| Mentorship program begins with the initial work assignments                                                  | Sept 4, 2024                                                                        | 
| Midterm mentee evaluations and first stipend payments                                                        | October 15, 2024 5:00 PM PDT (the week following the National Day holiday in China) |
| Final mentee evaluations and mentee feedback/blog submission due, second and final stipend payment approvals | Nov 26, 2024 5:00 PM PDT (Giving some time after KubeCon NA)                        |
| Last day of term                                                                                             | November 29, 2024                                                                   |

### Project Instructions

Project maintainers and potential mentors are welcome to propose their mentoring project ideas via submitting a PR to GitHub here [2024/03-Sep-Nov/project_ideas.md](./project_ideas.md), by July 23, 2024.

### Application instructions

Mentee application instructions can be found on the [Program Guidelines](https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/blob/main/programs/lfx-mentorship/README.md#program-guidelines) page.

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