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Hello Everyone,

Over the last few months Emily and I have been in discussions about how to
improve the mentoring program. We've chatted with other communities (k8s
specifically) about how their mentoring programs are arranged and what we
can do to improve ours. k8s runs mentoring cohorts (~3 mentors to ~ 8
mentees), favoring group interaction over 1x1 interaction. I think this
would be a much more stable and low maintenance model than our current one.


If we had a smaller group of mentees working towards a set task (deploying
OpenStack, fixing a bug, submitting a talk, etc) it would help give more
direction to the interactions between mentors and mentees, rather than
leaving goal setting up to them like we have been doing. Each cohort would
focus on a single task.

Mentees could be in multiple cohorts at a time if they wish and move to
others as they accomplish the cohort's goal, but they would pick the ones
they are interested in at signup.

Mentors could stay in the cohort as mentees cycle in and out. If there was
a mentor in the cohort that switched jobs or was on vacation it wouldn't be
as jarring for the mentee as it is currently because there would still be
twoish others around. These mentors could span different timezones so it
would be easier to assign any mentee to the cohort as well.

The cohort could do weekly or biweekly checkins and these cohorts could
maybe each have their own logged channels too (#woo-cohort-deploy, or
#cohort-deploy or something like that).

Check ins can be directly with the mentors more rather than the general
'how's it going email we send now.

Could even get fancier and I can see if the foundation can make us some
goal badges (I'm thinking like girl/boy scout patches) to have on
foundation member profiles or as stickers or something to say they
completed the task for xyz cohort.

All that being said, Emily and I need help! We both have a lot on our
plates and could use a third person helping us manage things.

Let me know what you think :)

-Kendall (diablo_rojo)
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