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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their help and support in the development of the Open Mentorship Handbook.

  • Outreachy organizers, mentors, mentees and coordinators for the cooperative building over 15 years of collective knowledge about open mentorships.

  • Google Summer of Code, in special Stephanie Taylor, for always sharing perpectives, advice and being a great source of inspiration.

  • NumFOCUS, in special Arliss Collins and Kamila Stepniowska, for supporting seeding discussions about an Open Mentorship Initiative at the DISC Unconference 2025.

  • All participants of the DISC Unconference 2025 seeding discussions:

    • Anna e só
    • Ana Ruvalcaba
    • Ariane Djeupang
    • David Chapuis
    • Deborah Udoh
    • Harmony Elendu
    • Ijeoma Onwuka
    • Julius Boakye
    • Kweyakie A. Blebo
    • Omotola Omotayo
    • Sage Sharp
    • Yani Bellini
    • Yashasvi Misra

  • Software Freedom Conservancy, and in special Karen M. Sandler and Daniel Pono Takamori, for helping us host further discussions at FOSSY 2025.

  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for the financial support to develop the first version of this handbook.

  • Big Open Source Sibling (BOSS) program organizers Bruna Pinos and Bruna Moreira, for the wide access to program artifacts to help us shape the sections about program design.

  • Lab Livre/UnB, and in special Maria Eduarda Andrade, Daniela de Oliveira, Suzane Duarte, Carla Rocha and Isaque Alves, for the opportunity to consolidate lessons learned from the Big Open Source Sibling (BOSS) program and published under a joint paper into this handbook.

  • OLS, in special Yo Yehudi, Sara Villa and Riva Quiroga, for openly publishing and licensing incredible open mentorship training materials.

  • PorteraTech, Cumbuca Dev and CryptoRave for always offering spaces to host our discussions about open mentorships and the sustainability of open projects.

  • Erin McKeon, for introducing the Open Mentorship Handbook in our behalf at Open Source Summit Japan 2026.

  • Julian Harty, for the unconditional support and excellent sharing of similar work since we met at our FOSS Backstage 2025 talk.