[openstack-dev] Mentor program?

Joshua Harlow harlowja at outlook.com
Thu Jul 24 19:15:46 UTC 2014


Sorry about repeatedly blasting this out. I blame mail.app or outlook.com...

Hopefully the glitch has been fixed...

-Josh

On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at outlook.com> wrote:

> Awesome,
> 
> When I start to see emails on ML that say anyone need any help for XYZ ... (which is great btw) it makes me feel like there should be a more appropriate avenue for those inspirational folks looking to get involved (a ML isn't really the best place for this kind of guidance and directing). 
> 
> And in general mentoring will help all involved if we all do more of it :-)
> 
> Let me know if any thing is needed that I can possible help with to get more of it going.
> 
> -Josh
> 
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jay Bryant <jsbryant at electronicjungle.net> wrote:
> 
>> Great question Josh!
>> 
>> Have been doing a lot of mentoring within IBM for OpenStack and have now been asked to formalize some of that work.  Not surprised there is an external need as well.
>> 
>> Anne and Stefano.  Let me know if the kids anything I can do to help.
>> 
>> Jay
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I was reading over a IMHO insightful hacker news thread last night:
>> 
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068547
>> 
>> Labeled/titled: 'I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too'
>> 
>> It made me wonder what kind of mentoring support are we as a community offering to newbies (a random google search for 'openstack mentoring' shows mentors for GSoC, mentors for interns, outreach for women... but no mention of mentors as a way for everyone to get involved)?
>> 
>> Looking at the comments in that hacker news thread, the article itself it seems like mentoring is stressed over and over as the way to get involved.
>> 
>> Has there been ongoing efforts to establish such a program (I know there is training work that has been worked on, but that's not exactly the same).
>> 
>> Thoughts, comments...?
>> 
>> -Josh
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