[Women-of-openstack] Query on Women of OpenStack lightweight mentoring program

Mahati C mahati.chamarthy at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 17:16:15 UTC 2016


Thank you so much Emily! That was helpful. The core message of our talk is
"We need more mentors! and how to be a good mentor" :) Here is the link:
https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7636

Best,
Mahati

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Emily K Hugenbruch <ekhugenbruch at us.ibm.com
> wrote:

> Hi Mahati,
> 1. We didn't do a separate call for mentees. Between the Upstream
> University and the Speed Mentoring session, as well as some others hearing
> about the program, we had quite a few mentees signed up. After the summit
> we will continue to match people, so if mentees don't find a mentor at the
> Speed Mentoring session or upstream, we'll still work to make sure they
> have a mentor.
> 2. The questionnaire is the same for mentors and mentees.
>
> Our goal is to match all the mentees in the program, but right now we have
> 137 total people signed up and we've matched about half of them. So we have
> a lot of work ahead of us, certainly we're seeing even without advertising
> that mentees are signing up much faster than mentors, so that's why in our
> public calls we focus on asking for mentors.
>
> Thanks for spreading the word about the mentoring program! We're always
> happy for new signups.
> Sincerely,
> Emily Kate Hugenbruch
> OpenStack Cloud Enablement Engineer - z/VM and Software Engineer - z/VM
> IBM Corporation Endicott, NY
> Twitter: @ekhugen
> IRC: ekhugen at freenode
>
> [image: Inactive hide details for Mahati C ---04/20/2016 11:35:18
> AM---Hello everyone, Me, Victoria and Rossella are doing a talk on Me]Mahati
> C ---04/20/2016 11:35:18 AM---Hello everyone, Me, Victoria and Rossella are
> doing a talk on Mentoring at the Austin
>
> From: Mahati C <mahati.chamarthy at gmail.com>
> To: women-of-openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Date: 04/20/2016 11:35 AM
> Subject: [Women-of-openstack] Query on Women of OpenStack lightweight
> mentoring program
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Me, Victoria and Rossella are doing a talk on Mentoring at the Austin
> summit. We'd like to spread the word about WOS lightweight mentoring
> program as well through the talk. If someone could address the queries
> below, it'll be great.
>
> I'm aware there was a call for mentors (via a questionnaire format) and
> that we now have mentors signed up for the program. There is also going to
> be speed mentoring at the summit where mentees get to interact with
> mentors. My query is:
>
> 1) Was there also a sign up for mentees? Or are mentees going to
> participate in the mentoring program at the summit, fill out a survey and
> post that there will be pairing up with mentors?
>
> 2) Is the survey at mentoring program going to be for both mentors and
> mentees?
>
> Thanks your time!
> Mahati_______________________________________________
> Women-of-openstack mailing list
> Women-of-openstack at lists.openstack.org
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/women-of-openstack
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/women-of-openstack/attachments/20160420/dfe5e275/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: graycol.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 105 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/women-of-openstack/attachments/20160420/dfe5e275/attachment.gif>


More information about the Women-of-openstack mailing list