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I'm +sending it to the marcom team too because I thing that marcom people could be +fit for the job) + +Hello to everyone, + +I'm sure there's someone among you who wants to help Mageia but hasn't found +yet the good way to do it. Today is your lucky day, because there's a job +that's available and can be really useful and interesting: coordinating the +packagers mentoring program. + +You know that one key point of success for Mageia is in the ability to welcome +new packagers. The better we will be at it, the better the distro will be. The +packagers mentoring program has been created for that reason and several +packagers have been or are being mentored. But we have some difficulty knowing +who is being mentored by who and who hasn't found a mentor. And we need also +to find more mentors and more apprentices. + +During a packagers weekly meeting, misc invited us to read the following +article about mentoring programs in open-source projects: +<A HREF="http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/05/31/effective-mentoring-programs/">http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/05/31/effective-mentoring-programs/</A> + +I invite those who haven't read it yet, to read it. I'll quote one of the +mentoring best practices that were given: "In bigger projects, keeping track +of who is a mentor, and who is mentoring who, and inviting new mentors, and +ensuring that no-one falls through the cracks when a mentor gets too busy, is +a job of itself." + +I'm looking for someone who could fill that "job". + +Description of the job: + +- keep track of: +-- who's being mentored by who, how well it's going +-- who needs a mentor and hasn't found one yet (this is one of the most +important parts: no volunteer must be forgotten, volunteers are too precious +!) +-- who can mentor more apprentices (and sometimes convince packagers to become +mentors or accept one more apprentice) + +- be available for questions from apprentices or mentors, by mail, and if +possible, to be present on the IRC channel #mageia-mentoring on freenode + +- help mentors with gathering "junior tasks" (bugzilla is a never empty +reserve that can be used for that. Maybe ask the bug triage team to help +identify such tasks. Maybe a "junior task" keyword in bugzilla would do the +trick) +-- small bugs to fix +-- new small packages to import in the distribution +-- backports + +- promote mentoring (empower users into contributers. Working with the +marketing team would be great I think): +-- make the mentoring program known (MLs, forums, web, etc.) +-- look for new apprentices +-- look for new mentors + +Some useful skills: +- be autonomous (ie no need to check that you're doing the work) +- good written english (communication is very important in this job) +- knowledge about packaging is a plus but not mandatory (the key aspects can +be taught to you) +- being or having been a mentor, or having been mentored would be a plus, but +not mandatory + +More information about the job: +- does not require a big amount of work, but real committment to the task and +regularity +- remember that you have a coordination role, not an authoritative role. The +difference in that is that you're not here to give orders but to facilitate the +mentoring program. +- you don't have to be alone to do this job if it's too much for one person: +you can find other helpful people wanting to help you if needed and rely on the +other teams (but finding them is part of your job ;) ). +- this "job offer" concerns everything that revolves around the mentoring of +new packagers, but if it's successful maybe other teams can follow the same +approach (i18n, QA, etc... ). +- depending on your level of confidence, experience and will, you could be +helped in your work. Maybe someone from the council can supervise and help you +at least at the beginning; or, if no one steps up, I can help you bootstrap +and organize your new "job". + +So, who's in? + +Samuel Verschelde +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-marketing/attachments/20110612/3d4bc3f5/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000395.html">[Mageia-marketing] Meeting this week, Thursday +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000398.html">[Mageia-marketing] "Job offer" : mentoring program coordinator +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#397">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#397">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#397">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#397">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">More information about the Mageia-marketing +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |