<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" >Thanks Kendall for sending out this email and doing so much work on this new idea. I think it's a really great way to update the mentoring program. It addresses two of our biggest issues: 1. overhead cost, as Amy mentioned, we spend too much time trying to find out if people are actually meeting their mentors/mentees 2. The "eHarmony syndrome" where people reject mentors or mentees if they don't match their interests and requirements exactly. It should help refocus the program on helping people grow their communities and skills.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >I'm very excited to try this new format!</div>
<div dir="ltr" >Sincerely,<br>Emily Kate Hugenbruch<br>Twitter: @ekhugen<br>IRC: ekhugen@freenode</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: Amy Marrich <amy@demarco.com><br>To: Kendall Nelson <kennelson11@gmail.com><br>Cc: "women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org" <women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org><br>Subject: Re: [Women-of-openstack] Shaking Up the Mentoring Program<br>Date: Wed, Jan 17, 2018 2:39 PM<br>
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<div>As mentioned in the meeting I think it's a good idea where there's a shared interest/goal but we'll find ourselves also having offshoots which I think are important not to leave out. That said I think it would increase interest in the program and actually help bring new people into the community as they wouldn't be alone when they joined they'd have their fellow mentees from their group. From a mentoring side it would also help reduce some of the work but also the 'hey just checking in' mails we do as well as I think there's the aspect of the group working together and keeping things going with the other members.</div>
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<div>As always let me know how I can assist, with this cold weather I can't go ride!</div>
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<div>Amy (spotz)</div></div>
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<div>On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Kendall Nelson <span dir="ltr" ><<a href="mailto:kennelson11@gmail.com" target="_blank" >kennelson11@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" ><div dir="ltr" ><div><div>Hello Everyone,</div></div>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.
<div><br>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>Check ins can be directly with the mentors more rather than the general 'how's it going email we send now.</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Let me know what you think :) </div>
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