<html><body><p><font size="4">Hi Victoria,<br>A few things to keep in mind. Many of the technical mentoring matches we made were in anticipation of the Upstream University training. So if your mentee is signed up for that, your early mentoring should focus on getting them prepared for upstream and just basically introduced to the community. </font><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/"><u><font size="4" color="#0000FF">http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/</font></u></a><font size="4"> <br>Beyond that, Carol's suggestions are absolutely spot on. Consider whether your expertise could help them in their area. Could you still help to teach them how to review patches, or run unit tests, even if it's not the project you're focused on? Encourage your mentee to be open to contributing in other areas, too. Projects are interconnected and skills are often transferable.<br><br>If it really seems like it won't work out, please let us know and we can look to re-match you. Thanks.<br>Sincerely,<br>Emily Kate Hugenbruch<br>OpenStack Cloud Enablement Engineer - z/VM and Software Engineer - z/VM<br>IBM Corporation Endicott, NY<br>Twitter: @ekhugen<br>IRC: ekhugen@freenode</font><br><br><font size="4"><br></font><img src="cid:1__=8FBBF501DFF6D3A98f9e8a93df938690918c8FB@" width="16" height="16" alt="Inactive hide details for "Barrett, Carol L" ---04/11/2016 02:08:51 PM---Hi Victoria – I think you have a couple of options: 1"><font size="4" color="#424282">"Barrett, Carol L" ---04/11/2016 02:08:51 PM---Hi Victoria – I think you have a couple of options: 1) Provide coaching without being the proje</font><font size="4"><br></font><font color="#5F5F5F"><br>From: </font>"Barrett, Carol L" <carol.l.barrett@intel.com><font color="#5F5F5F"><br>To: </font>Victoria Martínez de la Cruz <victoria@vmartinezdelacruz.com><font color="#5F5F5F"><br>Cc: </font>Emily K Hugenbruch/Endicott/IBM@IBMUS<font color="#5F5F5F"><br>Date: </font>04/11/2016 02:08 PM<font color="#5F5F5F"><br>Subject: </font>RE: [Openstack] [mentoring] Mentee project preferrence<font size="4"><br></font><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade><font size="4"><br><br></font><font size="4" color="#1F497D"><br>Hi Victoria – I think you have a couple of options:</font><ul><ul><ul><ul><font size="4" color="#1F497D">1) Provide coaching without being the project expert<br>2) Utilize your network to help the Mentee to find a Mentor who is a project expert<br>3) End the mentoring relationship and we can put both you and the Mentee back on the lists for upcoming an upcoming match.</font></ul></ul></ul></ul><font size="4" color="#1F497D"><br>Emily: Any other thoughts?<br>Thanks<br>Carol</font><font size="4"><br></font><b><font size="4"><br>From:</font></b><font size="4"> Victoria Martínez de la Cruz [</font><a href="mailto:victoria@vmartinezdelacruz.com"><u><font size="4" color="#0000FF">mailto:victoria@vmartinezdelacruz.com</font></u></a><font size="4">] </font><b><font size="4"><br>Sent:</font></b><font size="4"> Monday, April 11, 2016 10:48 AM</font><b><font size="4"><br>To:</font></b><font size="4"> openstack@lists.openstack.org</font><b><font size="4"><br>Subject:</font></b><font size="4"> [Openstack] [mentoring] Mentee project preferrence<br></font><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><br>Hi there,</font><font size="4"><br></font><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><br>What should the mentor do with regards to technical mentorship is the mentee is more interested in a project that the mentor is not familiar with?</font><font size="4"><br></font><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><br>Thanks,</font><font size="4"><br></font><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><br>Victoria</font><BR>
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