LFX Mentorship

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LFX Mentorship Compute

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docs.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/mentorship/mentee-stipends/tota · cloud VM · compute/lfx-mentorship · JSON · compare

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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated 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 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.
Binding	write-gated 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
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.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
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)

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated