Should we lift our own limitation and use these three years as a reference?

I think we should. If we want to retain new developers, this is a necessary step.

Thank you. Let's wait for more opinions. We need to decide this before starting the next round (which in practice means February).

@Aklapper, @01tonythomas please accept or object. This change is significant enough to double check with other org admins.

If we decide to change, then we could notify the interns and mentors of the past... 2? years.

I think this is a great move, but we should make sure that a previous intern has:

1. completed the previous project or deployment process ( if applicable ) as was mentioned in their past proposal. We might have to evaluate on how much work is required more.
2. completed the final Summer of Code / OPW wrap up report. Like - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T717 - where almost 12/23 have not yet submitted their wrap up report yet.

These can be taken care of during the selection process though. We might've to go back and contact mentors and students from past 2 years ( Conpherence )!

Do we have a similar Outreachy limitation in place?

Should we lift our own limitation and use these three years as a reference?

For GSoC: Yes.

Outreachy has a policy allowing only one participation per person (I wasn't aware).

OK, let's call this a decision. Its announcement should be part of the next GSoC/Outreachy round announcement (which we need to start asap!). @01tonythomas, can you please start creating the related tasks, please?

PS: Just to be clear, someone who has participated in one Outreachy round could still participate in 2 GSoC rounds with Wikimedia, but not three (which would total 4 internships).

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary/Next&diff=prev&oldid=2037051

This could be also featured in Tech News.

In T124392#1988915, @Qgil wrote:

Outreachy has a policy allowing only one participation per person (I wasn't aware).

OK, let's call this a decision. Its announcement should be part of the next GSoC/Outreachy round announcement (which we need to start asap!). @01tonythomas, can you please start creating the related tasks, please?

I will. Waiting for the project Google-Summer-of-Code (2016) to start with. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125490 )