<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Emily,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Always glad to hear speed mentoring is happening—let me know how we can help promote this on social (date, sign ups, etc)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) Does it cause too much trouble if you have _both_ a mentee sign up and take walk ins? I would only advertise the walk-on option the week of the Summit. You might catch someone with a gap in their schedule who suddenly feels inspired to join! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 20, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Amy Marrich <<a href="mailto:amy@demarco.com" class="">amy@demarco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Emily,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm on both sides of the fence on not having a mentee sign up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">pro:</div><div class="">You know who's coming(to some degree, you'll always have no shows and drop ins)</div><div class="">You know how many of each type of mentor you'll need (this might be solved by letting mentors being able to select multiple areas so you can shuffle on the fly)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">con:</div><div class="">You won't know who, if anyone is coming(or atleast planning to)</div><div class="">You might exceed available resources (seats or even mentors)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Emily K Hugenbruch <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ekhugenbruch@us.ibm.com" target="_blank" class="">ekhugenbruch@us.ibm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><p class=""><font size="2" class="">Hi, </font><br class=""><font size="2" class=""> As you might know, we're going to be holding the Speed Mentoring session at the Sydney summit as a regular lunch session (not sponsored). We'd like to get the signup sheet out soon and we were thinking of doing things a bit differently:</font></p><ul type="disc" class=""><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Have separate signup forms for mentors and mentees</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Mentee signup form fields</font><ul type="disc" class=""><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Area of interest: career, technical, community</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Email (really as a just in case contact)</font></li></ul>
</li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Mentors</font><ul type="disc" class=""><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Ask for Name, Job Title, Area of interest, and email</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Instead of doing baseball cards, just do nametags for mentors</font></li></ul><br class=""><font size="2" class="">This will help the event to be a little more lightweight. Another thing we talked about was possibly not even having a mentee signup form and just taking anyone who came in.</font><br class=""><font size="2" class="">Thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!</font></li></ul><font size="2" class="">Sincerely,<br class="">Emily Kate Hugenbruch<br class="">OpenStack Cloud Enablement Engineer - z/VM and Software Engineer - z/VM<br class="">IBM Corporation Endicott, NY<br class="">Twitter: @ekhugen<br class="">IRC: ekhugen@freenode</font><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>
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