Target audience: mentors
This group is for people who do:
- IRC core mentoring office hours,
- mentor at sprints,
- self-identify as mentors, or
- are interested in the general principles of mentoring in the Drupal community.
We are not *doing* mentoring here
caution
It is really important that actual mentoring happen in public:
- on the actual issues (make comments, it is really OK!), or
- in Drupal Slack #mentoring-team
Please politely redirect any questions about contribution to issues or IRC.
Are you a new contributor?
If you are a new contributor, and have questions about how to get involved,
please do not ask them here. Instead:
- ask them in IRC in #drupal or #drupal-contribute any day, any time,
- check https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring to find some specific times when mentors will be in IRC
- check your drupal.org account profile page has a dashboard and there are some links to getting into contribution there, also
- see the Getting Involved handbook page.
Mentor to Mentor Discussions
Use this group to post announcements to mentors.
See also https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring which has information about staying in contact regarding mentoring things, like the twitter account and calendar. Please go read that page. Also, read the children pages there. There is a lot of useful information about how to do mentoring, how to find tasks for new contributors, and how to plan or host a sprint.
Mentor issues, tag, queues
Some discussions should be in mentor issues:
- The mentoring meta issue tracks improvements we are making to mentoring.
- We have an tag Core mentoring on d.o
- And an issue queue for things mentors want to do (not for tracking tasks for mentoring participants).
Other groups
Other related groups:
- Drupal Event Organization for event organizers
- Local User Group Organizers
- Sprints about sprint organization
Speaker Diversity Workshop through SFDUG and friends
Drupal Diversity & Inclusion advocates through SFDUG are hosting a Speaker Diversity Workshop to help speakers from underrepresented groups prepare to speak at conferences. This will in turn help local meetups, Drupal Camps, and even DrupalCons develop a more diverse speaker roster. The workshop helps folks bust through their impostor syndrome and develop a topic, title, pitch, bio, and outline. #DrupalSpeakerDiversity
The workshop covers:
- Impostor syndrome
- Finding a topic
- Better speaker tips
- Writing a great pitch
- Creating an outline
- Creating great slides
Ways to help support the Drupal Association
With the uncertainty of the COVID-19 outbreak affecting DrupalCon Minneapolis, the DA's biggest fund raiser, financial support is needed now to help the DA continue its mission of supporting the Drupal software project and the Drupal Community.
As one of the community-elected representatives on the Drupal Association board of Directors I urge you and your organization to help support the Drupal Association now. Read my blog post to learn HOW you can help.
https://redfinsolutions.com/blog/support-drupal-association-during-uncer...
Read moreGetting Involved Guide refresh
For contributors working on refreshing the Getting Involved Guide, the regular meeting takes place in the Drupal Slack #documentation channel on every other Tuesday at 1600UTC.
See the channel at https://drupal.slack.com/app_redirect?channel=documentation and take part!
The meeting will be text-based so people are encouraged to drop by even after the meeting to check on progress.
Issues are managed in the Drupal.org/project/drupal_org_community project under the component "Getting Involved Guide"
Read moreMentoring Meta Meeting 14 November 2018
This meeting will be a chat only meeting! To find the meeting join the #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are usually once a month, except in the leadup to DrupalCon level events. This meeting is at 20:00 UTC on 14 November 2018 (What time is that for me: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Mentoring+Meta...). These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Read moreBay Area Drupal Camp - Mentor Planning - Contribution Lounge
Bay Area Drupal Camp is October 24-27...four days of talks, training classes, summits, contributions, and socials with some of the brightest minds from all over the world!
And admission to BADCamp is FREE!
We will have a dedicated space for contribution and every morning we are inviting folks who are new to the issue queue to come by and ask questions. Our goal is to empower more folks to jump into helping move the Drupal project closer to perfection.
Read moreMentor Meta Meeting: Drupal Europe Retrospective
This meeting will be a chat only meeting! To find the meeting join the #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the regular calendar.
Read moreAugust Meta Mentor Meeting #2
This meeting will be a chat only meeting! To find the meeting join the #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are usually once a month, but in the lead-up to Drupal Europe will will have meetings on Augst 8th and 22nd at 20:00 UTC (What time is that for me: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=August+meta+me...). These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Read moreAugust Meta Mentor Meeting #1
This meeting will be a chat only meeting! To find the meeting join the #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Read moreJuly Meta Mentor Meeting
This meeting will be our second chat only meeting! As this is a work in progress we welcome feedback on the process and thank the Drupal Diversity & Inclusion group for originating the format. To find the meeting join the #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Read moreJune Meta Mentor Meeting!
This meeting will be our first chat only meeting! As it is a test run we welcome feedback on the process and thank the Drupal Diversity & Inclusion group for originating the format. To find the meeting join the #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Read moreDC Nashville Mentoring BoF Notes
At DrupalCon Nashville, a small group of us gathered to discuss mentoring in Drupal. Here are the notes from that session (also attached):
DrupalCon Nashville 2018 - Mentoring BoF Notes
Suggested Topics
- Mapping types of mentoring in Drupal community
- Resources for mentoring
- Challenges in mentoring
- Contributor personas
- How to find mentors
- Managing occasional or "drive-by" mentors
Challenges in Mentoring
- Imposter Syndrome
- Path into mentorship is unclear. How can we clarify this?
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Wednesday, 9 May, 2018 at UTC 20:00 in Zoom meeting and Slack.
To find the meeting ping ekl1773 or another mentor in #drupal-mentoring (IRC) or #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are once a month, currently on the second Wednesday of the month at 20:00 UTC (What time is that for me?). These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Read moreMonthly Meta Mentoring Meeting
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Wednesday, 14 March, 2017 at UTC 20:00 in Zoom meeting and Slack.
To find the meeting ping ekl1773 or another mentor in #drupal-mentoring (IRC) or #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Read moreMonthly Mentor Meeting
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Wednesday, 14 February, 2017 at UTC 20:00 in Google Hangout.
To find the meeting ping ekl1773 or another mentor in #drupal-mentoring (IRC) or #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are once a month, currently on the second Wednesday of the month at 20:00 UTC. These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Read moreI need help to organize a Women in Drupal Meet up
Our drupal community in Rwanda would like to organize half day drupal meet up and we would like to focus much on WOMEN in DRUPAL as the audience will be from one Women institution. Does anyone have time to give me tips as this topic will be my first time to talk about it?
Looking forward to hear from you
Read moreMonthly mentor meeting
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Saturday, 4 November, 2017 at UTC 20:30 in Google Hangout.
To find the meeting ping valthebald or another mentor in #drupal-mentoring (IRC) or #mentoring channel in Drupal Slack. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are once a month, usually on the first Saturday of the month, at UTC 20:30. These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Read moreMonthly mentor meeting
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Saturday, 7 October, 2017 at UTC 20:30 in Google Hangout.
To find the meeting ping valthebald or another mentor in #drupal-mentoring channel in IRC. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are once a month, usually on the first Saturday of the month, at UTC 20:30. These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Read moreMonthly mentor meeting
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Saturday, 2 September, 2017 at UTC 20:30 in Google Hangout.
To find the meeting ping valthebald or another mentor in #drupal-mentoring channel in IRC. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are once a month, usually on the first Saturday of the month, at UTC 20:30. These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Read moreMonthly mentor meeting
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Saturday, 5 August, 2017 at UTC 20:30 in Google Hangout.
To find the meeting ping valthebald or another mentor in #drupal-mentoring channel in IRC. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are once a month, usually on the first Saturday of the month, at UTC 20:30. These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
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