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> On Apr 20, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Mahati C <mahati.chamarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7636>
> 
> Best,
> Mahati
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Emily K Hugenbruch <ekhugenbruch at us.ibm.com <mailto: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
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> <graycol.gif>Mahati C ---04/20/2016 11:35:18 AM---Hello everyone, Me, Victoria and Rossella are doing a talk on Mentoring at the Austin
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> From: Mahati C <mahati.chamarthy at gmail.com <mailto:mahati.chamarthy at gmail.com>>
> To: women-of-openstack at lists.openstack.org <mailto: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
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> 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:
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> 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?
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> 2) Is the survey at mentoring program going to be for both mentors and mentees?
> 
> Thanks your time!
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