Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-07 Thread MJ Ray
Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu Hi Rosalyn, I agree that we should encourage women to step up and mentor other women at Code4Lib. I also see the pairing of women mentors with women mentees as fitting into an overall mentorship program, and I would be interested in collaborating with you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-07 Thread Joseph Montibello
Hi all, I wouldn't want to crowd out women who are looking for this sort of mentoring, but I (and other men) might be interested in being a mentee[1]. The flip side of MJ's logic (which I agree with) is that no men in the pool of mentees means fewer opportunities for women to be mentors. Just my

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-07 Thread Sam Kome
Of Joseph Montibello Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 6:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program Hi all, I wouldn't want to crowd out women who are looking for this sort of mentoring, but I (and other men) might be interested in being a mentee[1]. The flip

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-07 Thread Shaun Ellis
Thank you to Ranti for setting up the wiki page! Please post your name to that page as others have started to do if you have any interest in being involved with the mentorship program. It doesn't matter what your gender is to participate, but if you have a preference for who you'd like to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-06 Thread Wick, Ryan
Hi Shaun, That page was mostly for me to keep track of upgrades, especially with regards to plugins. Although most of the major upgrades still haven't happened, I don't know that that page is entirely up-to-date. Cary contacted me about working on the Drupal upgrade, and I'll work with him

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-06 Thread Rosalyn Metz
Hey Shaun, I was actually thinking about some of this this morning, so I'm happy to see there is someone else out there thinking about the same things. I like the idea of some type of structure to a program, I wonder if maybe we could combine Karen's idea of training with a mentorship program.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-06 Thread Donna Campbell
, December 06, 2012 1:34 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program Hey Shaun, I was actually thinking about some of this this morning, so I'm happy to see there is someone else out there thinking about the same things. I like the idea of some type of structure

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-06 Thread Andromeda Yelton
In terms of structure, drupalladder.org and Dreamwidth ( http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dev_Getting_Started ) are good models for how to scaffold the process for new developers, and to help new community members regardless of skill level find places they can contribute and understand the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-06 Thread Ranti Junus
Welp, here's the mostly empty wiki page for this project: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Mentorship_Program Feel free to deconstruct the page as needed. I supopse those who want to be mentored could help by adding what are their goals/projected outcomes from this mentorship and what kind of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-06 Thread Bess Sadler
ranti++ I added myself as a potential mentor and mentee. Thank you for setting this up and I look forward to seeing how it evolves. Bess On Dec 6, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Welp, here's the mostly empty wiki page for this project:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Program

2012-12-06 Thread Karen Coyle
On 12/6/12 2:14 PM, Jessica Wood wrote: Side note (also selfish): I hope that at least parts of this idea will be available to people not attending the conference. I'd love to go to a future conference, but I'm not making it to this one. Jessica, I think that the term is enlightened self