On Fri, 2023-03-17 at 12:56 +0000, Drew Foulks wrote: > Additionally, some sort of volunteer mentoring program would also be > a huge boon to keeping newcomers involved in the larger community.
While I strenuously agree, I also know how much work it is to run an actual effective mentoring program. I would *LOVE* to see someone step up to manage this, even as an informal spreadsheet, mailing list, or whatever. Questions that come to mind immediately are: * Who would we be willing to "endorse" as mentors? Is there some kind of vetting process so that we don't have random folks posing as representatives of the Foundation? * What advice would we give those folks? In particular, I don't want to throw people into the fire with no guardrails, and end up with people feeling obliged to be a "do my homework" service. In the past, a HUGE percentage of the people that come asking for mentoring are trying to do an assignment for class with vague instructions like "Contribute to an open source project". * What kind of disclaimers would we need to put on such a program to protect folks from people who don't get the results they're looking for? I'd want to look at some of the other projects/foundations who have done this successfully, and see what landmines there are that we can avoid stepping on. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
