Mentorship
For Program Admins

Offer a mentorship program for your project.

Program Admins can enroll a program for a Linux Foundation project and bring on paid, mentored contributors for a multi-week term. LFX handles applications, stipends, evaluations and compliance. You scope the work and review it.

Opens the Admin area of LFX. You will need to be signed in as a Program Admin.

Why Offer a Program

What projects get out of running a mentorship term.

  • Grow your contributor base

    Most graduated mentees keep contributing after the term ends, often becoming reviewers and core contributors.

  • Move work you keep deferring

    Programs are well suited to scoped work that never reaches the top of the backlog: tooling, tests, docs, instrumentation.

  • Funding you control

    Where a program is funded, the stipend comes from project funds, a foundation pool or a direct sponsor, so the work is not unpaid labour.

  • Program administration handled

    LFX runs applications, eligibility checks, stipend payments, evaluations and compliance.

  • A wider pool of candidates

    Your program is listed alongside every other LFX program and reaches applicants from outside your existing community.

  • A record you can point to

    Every term keeps its mentees, approved work and outcomes, so you can show what the project has produced.

How to Enroll

Enrollment is a three-step form in the LFX Admin area. Here is what each step asks for, so you can gather it before you start.

  1. 1

    Program Details

    What the program is and which project it belongs to. You can import details from a program you have run before.

    • Program name
    • Program description
    • Code of Conduct URL
    • Linux Foundation project
    • Repository and website URLs
    • Program logo
    • Technologies
    • CII Best Practices project ID
  2. 2

    Program Setup

    Who you are looking for and when the program runs. Mentors are invited later, once the program is approved.

    • Required and desirable skills
    • Custom term dates
    • Non-technical interest areas
    • Program terms
  3. 3

    Prerequisites

    What candidates must complete to qualify, plus the platform terms.

    • Resume
    • Participation permission
    • Terms and conditions
    • Cover letter topics
    • Coding challenge
    • School enrollment verification
    • Custom prerequisites

After You Submit

  1. 1

    The LFX Mentorship team reviews your enrollment (usually within 2 business days).

  2. 2

    Once approved, you invite mentors from the Mentors tab.

  3. 3

    The program opens for applications, and applicants appear in your workspace.

Before You Start

  • Scope the work for a single term.

  • Name at least two mentors.

  • Confirm funding before enrolling (unfunded programs cannot open).

Ready to enroll your project? Enrollment happens in LFX, where you can also save a draft and come back to it.