Open Stack

There used to be a "mentoring program" organized by  "Women of OpenStack -
WOS".
WOS used to organised "Mentoring + Breakfast" session for people who are
new to the summit and community.
Is that program still active?
If yes, is this something that this "Welcome" SIG can collaborate with?

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
wrote:

> Excerpts from Thierry Carrez's message of 2017-09-26 17:19:07 +0100:
> > Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> > > Doug,
> > >
> > > I'd like to add a reference to organizations that the new community
> > > members belong too as the pressure comes from their chain of command
> > > too:
> > >
> > > How's this?
> > >
> > > To proactively work with new community members and organizations to
> > > help them become
> > > effective contributors in OpenStack by sharing tips, information,
> > > resources and guidance and
> > > to facilitate collaboration between the people working on initiatives
> > > related to community goals.
> >
> > +1 on calling it the "Welcome to OpenStack" group (or some other
> > positive-sounding welcoming name). My worry was that we'd create a group
> > that would be the new contributor police that would spread a "distrust
> > by default" attitude. If that's tied into mentoring and accompanying
> > contributors in their first steps in the OpenStack world, I'm all for it.
> >
>
> Sure, we can work "Welcome" into the name. Something like "Welcome
> Wagon" may be too much of a cultural idiom, but I'm sure we can come up
> with something positive.
>
> Doug
>
> _______________________________________________
> openstack-sigs mailing list
> openstack-sigs at lists.openstack.org
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-sigs
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/attachments/20170926/764b526e/attachment.html>