Community-committee: Mentorship Team under the CommComm

[dshaw]

During this week's TSC meeting, it was mentioned that @nodejs/tsc has not found a champion for the Mentorship core initiative. I offered to take on the Mentorship initiative and bootstrap it in the CommComm. https://youtu.be/eSgqJg7pu_M?t=47m0s

@MylesBorins notes that it will be vital to have TSC input and participation. I think that means Myles is volunteering. 😜

I'm a bit saturated with bootstrapping @nodejs/user-feedback and Governance right now. I personally don't think I'll be able to start meeting on this until mid-December. If you are interested in helping lead, my experience is that will take about 10 hours a month while getting started. I would love to help someone lead rather than taking this on myself.

If you are interested in co-organizing. The expectations would be ~5 hours/month for co-organizers. Please raise your hand if you're interested.

[dshaw]

@hollomancer of Operation Code mentioned he is interested. Moreover, he shared these resources which they use to support mentorship at Operation Code:

• Operation Code - Intro to Mentorship
• Operation Code - Mentorship Guidebook

[Bamieh]

@dshaw I am interested to help in the mentorship program

[hackygolucky]

@dshaw @hollomancer @bamieh Can you attend the next CommComm meeting? One of the things we've been talking about with all of the moving parts in CommComm right now is finding a way to identify and track initiatives that need to happen, but that we also don't want to be starting up projects if we don't have a sufficient number of people able do the work(the hours needed not just in meeting to organize but in this instance, to find/screen/provide a framework/provide ongoing support for the mentors and mentees). Let's make sure we're setting this up for success!

[Bamieh]

@hackygolucky Sure I'd love to join, when is the next meeting going to be?

[bnb]

@Bamieh Thursday at 12pm ET - I will be posting the meeting proposal tomorrow or Thursday 👍

[komawar]

Hi, I am at the CommComm meeting and due to time constraints as suggested by @bnb , I'm preferring to comment here.

I'm new to the NodeJS processes however, have good experience working at the Outreachy Initiative and mentoring folks at other open source foundation. So, I think I can help out well with the Mentorship initiative, setting and maintaining processes, guides etc. Please consider me for any possible co-championship required help. cheers.

[Tiriel]

Just to add some water to what @refack said in today's CommComm meeting, I largely +1 that we should see if @Trott wants to help too or at least give some advice. He's really doing a great work mentoring pretty much anyone who comes needing help getting on board, including via NodeTodo.

[Bamieh]

@bnb In highlight of today's meeting, you offered to help in getting this initiative started. I have some notes written that i'd like to discuss but i have no idea how to contact you 😄

[Trott]

Just to add some water to what @refack said in today's CommComm meeting, I largely +1 that we should see if @Trott wants to help too or at least give some advice.

Totally interested in this but I've been taking a wait-and-see-what-it-shapes-up-to-be approach. It's not clear to me who the mentees are supposed to be, for example. (Anyone? New collaborators who have already gone through the onboarding process? Something else?)

[MylesBorins]

I think that I was one of the people to originally suggest a mentorship program. I was originally envisioning that each new collaborator would get a mentor with their commit bit

[bnb]

@Bamieh sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I was OOO on Thursday/Friday and the meeting was the only Node.js-related thing I did those days 😅

You can reach me via DM on Twitter or via email at hello [at] bnb.im

[refack]

It's not clear to me who the mentees are supposed to be

This was raised as well in the last meeting, so we should probably follow up here.

1. Who are the people seeking mentorship (Devs / Community builders / Core Collaborators)?
2. Who is willing to mentor?
3. What areas (Programing / Org Process / Community)?
4. Should there be well defined programs (like @MylesBorins's initiative to mentor each new collaboration)?

[Tiriel]

Is there any way we could have some sort of polling on the interwebs/on the org to gather informations about these questions?
Because from my point of view, we risk having everyone answer according to their own experience, which may not be the "general" use case.
Specifically, I'd love to have a mentor, as a Dev who is real junior in Node.js. But I'm pretty sure you can also find confirmed Node devs and new Core Collaborators qho'd like to have their kind of mentorship too.

[bnb]

Here's the repo that @Bamieh has been doing this work on - amazing work!

https://github.com/Bamieh/node-ment

[Bamieh]

@bnb how can i help with the TODO agreed in the last commcomm meeting regarding the mentorship program?

[bnb]

@Bamieh so we're going to have to do that work here - the next steps will be agreed upon by the TSC and CommComm in this issue: https://github.com/nodejs/admin/issues/35

[bnb]

Going to remove the CC-agenda label from this, since I added it to https://github.com/nodejs/admin/issues/35

[bnb]

Since we've made significant progress, and it's generally acknowledged that this will be a joint CommComm + TSC effort under Admin, I'm going to close this. Looks like it's relatively well referred to by the Mentorship team members, so feel free to re-open if needed.