[openstack-dev] Mentor program?

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Fri Jul 25 12:44:17 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Jay S. Bryant <
jsbryant at electronicjungle.net> wrote:

> Josh,
>
> I agree that the mailing list is a hard place to provide such guidance
> and direction.  I find mailing lists intimidating.  Had taken me some
> time to be comfortable submitting here.
>
> After my response to this note the other day I was pinged internally via
> our messaging client asking for some mentoring.  They seemed more
> comfortable introducing themselves that way and talking.  I hate to
> suggest an IRC channel for this, as IRC drives me nuts, also doesn't
> seem the best fit.  Maybe instead a wiki page with IRC names of people
> that are willing to be individually contacted with requests for
> guidance.  I could be listed as a contact for Cinder or i18n as well as
> a general process contact.  You for taskflow, etc.
>

We started #openstack-101 for the purpose of onboarding new contributors
(not for learning OpenStack necessary). So we could use that as well as the
wiki page, which is a great idea.


>
> I guess a way to communicate what we feel we can help with and provide
> that as a resource for those who may need help in those areas.  Also, on
> the same wiki maybe try to cull together some of the 'getting started
> info.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jay
>
> On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 15:42 -0700, Joshua Harlow 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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