Open Stack

Thanks, Mike -- It only took a few minutes for me to fill out the
questionnaire and sign up as a mentor.

I noticed there was an extra character at the end of the URL form below,
this link worked for me:
https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/mentoring

Jessica Murillo
Vice President, Strategy
IBM Systems
jessicak at us.ibm.com
Mobile Phone: 512-970-8466



From:	Mike Perez <mike at openstack.org>
To:	women-of-openstack at lists.openstack.org
Cc:	OpenStack Development Mailing List
            <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>,
            "openstack at lists.openstack.org"
            <openstack at lists.openstack.org>,
            "openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org"
            <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>, Community User
            Groups OpenStack <community at lists.openstack.org>
Date:	02/03/2016 05:49 PM
Subject:	[Women-of-openstack] OpenStack Mentoring



Mentoring is an important tool for growing our OpenStack community.
Mentors help new community members come on board and existing community
members expand their skills and reputation.  Mentees help their mentors
expand their worldview and challenge their mindset. This process of gaining
knowledge and challenging existing ideas is vital to our community.

The OpenStack community currently has a few levels of mentoring:

* Outreachy mentoring - an intense internship-type experience over a
particular three month period https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy.
* Upstream University - a two-day class for beginners in the community,
held on-site the two days prior to the summit

The Women of OpenStack group has seen the need for additional types of
mentoring, specifically long term but lightweight mentoring aimed at
bringing together mentors and mentees who may not be co-located.

* Technical mentoring - mentorship is spread over several months. Mentors
with experience in a particular area of OpenStack help their mentees grow
in that area. This could be a focus area like release management or
marketing, or a particular project like Nova or Neutron.
* Career mentoring - mentorship is spread out over several months or years.
Mentors help their mentees define what kind of career they'd like in the
community and move towards those goals.

Mentors and mentees may or may not have the same focus area in the
community. We hope to kick off these new mentoring programs before the
Austin summit, to tie in with a new Speed Mentoring session there.

We are currently looking for mentors of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds
to take part in the program pilot.  Mentors should have between 1 and 4
hours a month free to spend with their menthe.

Read our guidelines (
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtM4AiszlEyVkEtdktmWjBPN3c/view) and if
you're ready to sign up, please fill out our questionnaire
https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/mentoring!

There is an optional speed mentoring session that will be on April 25th
Monday morning at the OpenStack conference in Austin before the first
keynote. In this event, mentees will be able to meet a variety of mentors
in a short amount of time to see who they would like to pair up with.
Please check the appropriate box on the questionnaire form if you’re
interested in attending.

--
Mike Perez


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