Open Stack

Hey everyone,

Ell has been blogging about her learning experiences for Linux
Academy.  These posts are really great, a good place to start is:
https://linuxacademy.com/blog/docker/its-okay-to-be-new/

It got me thinking, mentoring means lots of different things to
different people.  For me, I didn't actually have any mentors early on
in my career, it was a very solitary and often frustrating learning
process.  Those kinds of relationships came along much later and it was
striking how much I got out of them and how much they would have helped
if I had access to that kind of support and encouragement much earlier.
 It's made the mentoring relationships I have now that much more
appreciated and important.  So I got involved in mentoring initially
through my local Linux Users Group, and now through the OpenStack
community, because I'd like to help make it so that no one else has to
be alone like that in their journey.  

It can be really hard to make that first connection, and to reach out
and say "hey I could use some help".  Luckily we have a really excellent
community with a lot of different experiences and skills and backgrounds
here in the OpenStack world, and you've all already taken that first
step in saying "I want to be a part of mentoring!".

So whether you're a mentor, a mentee, or both, I'd like to ask: What
does mentoring mean to you?  What do you hope to get out of a mentoring
relationship?

Cheers,
Jill
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