Joan Touzet wrote on 2019-6-18 3:51PM EDT: ...snip... > On 2019-06-18 3:09 p.m., Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Random idea: Can we do something like the "CoC contacts" but for people >> who feel uncomfortable joining a community? For example, some sort of >> way to pair people with one-on-one mentors? > > I believe Shane is working on a new mentorship website/framework that > could meet this need. I'd like to ask him to chime in on any specific > considerations he has re: diversity and inclusion within that new system.
I built a simplistic web tool [1] to allow mentor volunteers to advertise themselves to prospective mentees. It entirely relies on mentors/mentees to do the coordination work. It's currently being used to run a private mentoring program for ASF Members. I'm happy give pointers on how it could be redeployed elsewhere for another committer-focused mentoring program - but it needs someone to actively lead the effort (maintaining site/updating questions; gathering mentors; publicizing to larger community; etc.) In particular, coming up with the set of questions/characteristics that volunteer mentors would list about themselves that would help newcomers decide who they'd like to reach out to is the first step. -- - Shane Director & Member The Apache Software Foundation [1] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/www/members/mentors.cgi
