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- Free allowance
- Quoted from the funding announcement: 'we start from a $6,000 USD baseline and adjust for each mentee's country', 'We keep PPP and the $6,600 maximum, and we've lowered the minimum to $1,000'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedAbout one accepted applicant in ten: the programme counter reads 2.1K accepted against 20K applications, and a host project has to pick the mentee.
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Quoted from the funding announcement: 'we start from a $6,000 USD baseline and adjust for each mentee's country', 'We keep PPP and the $6,600 maximum, and we've lowered the minimum to $1,000'. The published country table runs from USD 1,400 (Afghanistan) to USD 6,600 (Bermuda), with China at USD 3,100 and Canada at USD 5,100. unit none; metered on wall-clock; cash-stipend |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) About one accepted applicant in ten: the programme counter reads 2.1K accepted against 20K applications, and a host project has to pick the mentee. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | Three terms a year rather than one, so a rejected applicant can re-apply in the next term, which is the highest retry rate. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Lower than GSoC at the same PPP logic for most countries, but it runs several terms a year and covers cloud-native projects where a compute workload is the deliverable. Unverified: the exact term dates for the next cycle, which the landing page did not print. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/mentorship/mentee-stipends/tota | the per-country stipend table for programmes starting on or after 2026-07-01, quoted with China 3100, Canada 5100, and the 1000 to 6600 range |
| 2026-10-22 | www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/strengthening-lfx-mentoring-a-f | quoted the PPP formula, the USD 6,000 baseline, the USD 6,600 maximum, the new USD 1,000 minimum, and that stipends are 'educational grants' rather than wages |
| 2026-10-22 | mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/ | the live programme counter: 20K applications, 2.1K accepted, 1.6K graduated, USD 4M stipends paid |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "stipend","free_tier_kind": "cash-stipend","shape": null} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field